Why Safety and Health Officer is Important

First of all, our nations is growing towards developed country in year 2020. In order to this, a lot of factors to be considered. One of it is that, to developed skilled workers and 1st class workers and yet the citizens itself have the 1st class mentality. To increase income per capita, to be recognized as the high income country. To be a competitive nation in the world.

To do this, accidents occurrence should be avoided and should be minimized. It is because the accidents itself is very costly, not only to the citizen but also to the country. So, to help to achieve the vision of 2020, safety and health officer is part of the bargain.
The duties of the safety and health officer itself can assists the nation to grow and move forward without any disability. A strong nation will be born to pursue the vision which already laid.

Besides that, it is prescribed that an occupier of a place of work to which this section applies shall employ a competent person to act as a safety and health officer at the place of work. 
[Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 (OSHA 1994)]

The industries that shall employ safety and health officer are:

1. any building operation where the total contract price of the project exceeds twenty million ringgit
2. any work of engineering construction where the total contract price of the project exceeds twenty million ringgit
3. any ship building employing at the peak of the work more than a hundred employees
4. any gas processing activity or petrochemical industries employing more than a hundred employees
5. any chemical and allied industry employing more than a hundred employees
6. any boiler and pressure vessel manufacturing activity employing more than a hundred employees
7. any metal industry where there is canning or stamping or blanking or shearing or bending operations and employing more than a hundred employees
8. any wood working industry where there is cutting or sawing or planning or moulding or sanding or peeling or any combination of the above, and employing more than a hundred employees
9. any cement manufacturing activity employing more than a hundred employees
10. any other manufacturing activity other than the manufacturing activity stated above, employing more than five hundred employees.

These industries is known to be the most dangerous workplaces because it is an accident prone workplace. Safety and health officer is assigned to formulate and lay out plans to upgrade the safety and health in the workplace as well as to maintain it. Of course, the employer should support the work of the safety and health officer to sustain the safety and health in workplace so that it is in good order.

Nowadays, safety and health officers is a very demanding job in Malaysia because of the demand in the safety industries and for the high paid salary. Although the job itself seems to be simple, but, truly, the job offers a lot of commitments and high responsibilities. Responsible to make a safe and healthy workplace.

That's all for the time being.
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