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Safety Culture and Issue in the Malaysian Manufacturing Sector

Yusri Yusof; Anbia Adam; Danish Ali;
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  • Published: 01 Jan 2017 Journal: MATEC Web of Conferences (issn: 2261-236X, Copyright policy)
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Abstract
. This paper highlights the Safety culture and issue in the Malaysian Manufacturing Sector and emphasis the high occupational accidents due to lack of safety culture and non-compliance of the requirements of Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994. The aim of this study is to review the occupational accidents occurrence in the Malaysia workplace since 2012-2016. Malaysia aimed to reduce the occupational accidents, the results show by DOSH increase that Occupational Noise Induced Hearing Loss 83.7%, occupational musculoskeletal diseases, 4.4% and occupational lung diseases 2.3%. But the as per the record from DOSH that in last 5-Years, the increment in the fatal ...
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doi: 10.1051/matecconf/201713500031
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free text keywords: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General), TA1-2040, Manufacturing, business.industry, business, Permanent disability, Noise-induced hearing loss, medicine.disease, medicine, Occupational safety and health, High interest, Manufacturing sector, Engineering, Safety culture, Operations management, Government
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