Development of working at height management system based on legislation in Malaysia

Construction industry is one of the top dangerous industry in Malaysia because there is a high risk of accident occurrence. Amongst of the accidents happen in the construction site, the workers are likely to exposed to the accidents such as fall from height. Although Malaysian government has taken a...

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Main Authors: Law, Peng Hang, Ezrin Hani, Sukadarin
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: Springer 2020
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spelling ump-259502019-11-12T04:13:27Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25950/ Development of working at height management system based on legislation in Malaysia Law, Peng Hang Ezrin Hani, Sukadarin HD28 Management. Industrial Management Construction industry is one of the top dangerous industry in Malaysia because there is a high risk of accident occurrence. Amongst of the accidents happen in the construction site, the workers are likely to exposed to the accidents such as fall from height. Although Malaysian government has taken a lot of effort to reduce the number of accidents by legislations, but the construction-related accidents are still at high number especially working at height. Due to concern of this problem, a working at height management system is developed to help the construction especially small medium enterprise contractors to help them to manage the compliance of legal requirements FMA 1976 and OSHA 1994. The legal requirement taken from these two legislations for working at height activity only. The validity of the working at height management system, real case study was used by using a building construction project and interview was conducted with a safety practitioner to validate the working at height legal requirements. As a result, the working at height legal requirements and the prototype were used by a safety practitioner from construction industry to cross-check for compliance and to validate them as well. The developed working at height management system is proven systematically help the end users to store their documentations and check compliance with working at height legal requirements from their inspection checklists. The implementation of this system can contribute to the awareness of complying with the regulations and enhance their safety and health practices. Springer 2020 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25950/1/Development%20of%20Working%20at%20Height%2C%20Management%20System%20Based%20on%20Legislation%20in%20Malaysia.pdf Law, Peng Hang and Ezrin Hani, Sukadarin (2020) Development of working at height management system based on legislation in Malaysia. In: AHFE International Conference on Safety Management and Human Factors, 2019, 24-28 July 2019 , Washington D.C., USA. pp. 226-235., 969. ISSN 978-303020496-9 ISBN 21945357 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20497-6_21
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Law, Peng Hang
Ezrin Hani, Sukadarin
Development of working at height management system based on legislation in Malaysia
description Construction industry is one of the top dangerous industry in Malaysia because there is a high risk of accident occurrence. Amongst of the accidents happen in the construction site, the workers are likely to exposed to the accidents such as fall from height. Although Malaysian government has taken a lot of effort to reduce the number of accidents by legislations, but the construction-related accidents are still at high number especially working at height. Due to concern of this problem, a working at height management system is developed to help the construction especially small medium enterprise contractors to help them to manage the compliance of legal requirements FMA 1976 and OSHA 1994. The legal requirement taken from these two legislations for working at height activity only. The validity of the working at height management system, real case study was used by using a building construction project and interview was conducted with a safety practitioner to validate the working at height legal requirements. As a result, the working at height legal requirements and the prototype were used by a safety practitioner from construction industry to cross-check for compliance and to validate them as well. The developed working at height management system is proven systematically help the end users to store their documentations and check compliance with working at height legal requirements from their inspection checklists. The implementation of this system can contribute to the awareness of complying with the regulations and enhance their safety and health practices.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Law, Peng Hang
Ezrin Hani, Sukadarin
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Ezrin Hani, Sukadarin
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title Development of working at height management system based on legislation in Malaysia
title_short Development of working at height management system based on legislation in Malaysia
title_full Development of working at height management system based on legislation in Malaysia
title_fullStr Development of working at height management system based on legislation in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Development of working at height management system based on legislation in Malaysia
title_sort development of working at height management system based on legislation in malaysia
publisher Springer
publishDate 2020
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25950/
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http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25950/1/Development%20of%20Working%20at%20Height%2C%20Management%20System%20Based%20on%20Legislation%20in%20Malaysia.pdf
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