This study aims to determine the awareness level of safety
management and safety behavior among SMEs workers. Safety management as a
subsystem in the overall management of the organization. It is designed to control
hazards that can affect the safety and health of workers. Small and Medium Enterprise
(SMEs) in Malaysia continue to face many challenges both traditionally and new.
80% to 90% of occupational accidents occurred involving worker of SMEs industry.
A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to the involved small medium
industries. Questionnaires form that consist of three sections, namely socio
demographic, safety management and safety behavior. This study was conducted at
selected SMEs located in Klang Valley. 226 workers responded. In order to interpret
the level of awareness among the respondents, a 3-level scale (High: 3.68 – 5.00,
Moderate: 2.34 – 3.67, Low: 1.00 – 2.33) based on the mean score was used suggested
by Ashari & Mahmood. The findings show that the highest level of awareness was
safety behavior while the lowest awareness level was safety promotion policy
respectively. Findings also showed that, there were moderate correlation between
safety management and safety behavior. Understanding the concept of the OSH
management system will help us to understand the application of OSH management
system in Malaysia. OSH Management very important to prevent accident, ill health
& injury at workplace towards development of safety culture.
Licensed person is a third party who was awarded a license to perform statutory inspection for certificated
machinery under the provision of section 40 (1A), Factories and Machinery Act (Amendment) (FMA) 2006. The
objectives of the study is to identify issues related to statutory inspection in Malaysia and to make comparisons with
respect to the statutory inspection by Licensed Person adopted by other countries. The enforcement of Licensed
Person in Malaysia is still in not yet implemented although Section 40 (1A) in FMA (Revision) 2006 regulating on
Licensed Person had been introduced on 2006 and compared with other countries especially our neighboring country
Singapore. Based on the DOSH inspection data analysis, the main issues relating to statutory inspection in Malaysia
is the increment in backlog cases due to lack of number officers compare to the number of registered certificated
machineries in Malaysia. As a conclusion, the implementation of Licensed Person is crucial in Malaysia to reduce the
work and financial burden of Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) officer in enforcing FMA 1967
and also to improve the quality of statutory inspection for the safety in workplace.
Unsafe behaviour is the key factor which contributes to the high number of incidents. Applying Behavior-Based
Safety (BBS) into safety risk controls has been adopted in major industry toward improving safety performance.
This approach to prevent incident has a number of advantages. The objective of this study is to identify the BBS
factors which can contribute to reduce incidents at the workplace. Human factors, behaviour and environment have
been identified as BBS factors. Human factors are influenced by knowledge and understanding of the workers while
behaviour factors are influenced by culture and practices in a daily life. In addition, environmental factor involves
equipment and work area. For an effective BBS approach, level of knowledge, understanding and practices by the
workers become the main concerns in the implementation of BBS. The findings can become the reference model for
future implementation in other organizations and as a guidance for better safety management.