AW101 - OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND

HEALTH 1 (OSH)

CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION TO OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY
AND HEALTH

OSH 1 AW101
Course : AW101 Occupational Safety and
Health
Duration: 15 weeks
Credit: 1
Pre-Requisites: None

SYNOPSIS
1. Understand basic OSH in workplace
2. Essential employees to practice safety &
health environment, which less hazards
3. Understanding regulation, OSH
management, accident prevention and
occupational First-Aid methods

LESSON PLAN
Introduction to OSH- Concept, history OSH, basic understanding on safety & accident
LECTURE 1, TUTORIAL 1
OSH Legislation Intro to acts, regulations & agencies related to OSH
LECTURE 2 & 3, TUTORIAL 2 & 3
OSH Management Emphasizes student concept of safety & management
responsibility regarding safety & health matters at workplace
LECTURE 4 & 5, TUTORIAL 4 & 5
Workplace Environment & Ergonomics Intro concept ergonomics towards
developing awareness among student safe & healthy working environment
LECTURE 6, 7 & 8, TUTORIAL 6 & 7
Incidents Prevention Explains concept of incident & comparison between incident
and accident
LECTURE 9 & 10, TUTORIAL 8
Hazards Identifications, Risk Assessment, & Risk Control (HIRARC) Introduce basic
understanding of HIRARC as accident & incident prevention tools
LECTURE 9 & 12, TUTORIAL 9, 10 & 11
Occupational First Aid Explain basic first aid treatment at workplace & equipment
needed for that purpose
LECTURE 13, 14 & 15, TUTORIAL 12, 13, 14 & 14

CONTINUES ASSESSMENT
1. QUIZ 2 quizzes

10%

2. TEST - 1 tests

30
%

3. CASE STUDY 1
4. PRESENTATION

30
%
1

30%

CHAPTER 1
Introduction to Occupational Safety and Health
(OSH)
1.

The concepts of occupational safety and health

2.

The history of occupational safety and health

3.

The importance of safety in the workplace

4.

The major safety terminologies

5.

Types of accident

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CONCEPT OF OSH
1. Philosophy of occupational safety and health was
first introduced by the Robens Committee in the
UK:
to ensure the responsibility safety and
health liaise with those who create risks and
those who work with these risks.
2.

At July 1972, the committee had proposed to

changes the legislation and administration relating
to the safety and health in Report of the
Committee on Safety and Health at Work

Politeknik Muadzam Shah

DIFINITION
1. OSH is a cross- disciplinary area concerned with
protecting thesafety,health andwelfare of people
engaged inwork or employment
2. The goal of OSH is to provide a safe work
environment at the workplace.
3. It may also protect co-workers, family members,
employers, customers, suppliers, nearby
communities, and other members of the public who
are impacted by the workplace environment

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Occupational safety & health aim:
Promotion and maintenance of the highest
degree of physical, mental and social well-being
of workers in all occupations;
Prevention amongst workers of departures from
health caused by their working conditions
Protection of workers in their employment from
risks resulting from factors adverse to health

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OSH HISTORY
At 5th century BC Health history was
started.Hippocrates had found the health effects
experienced by workers who conduct lead
exposure get a risk
At 1st century Roman Phily the Elder ,reported
the workers who produce the mercury should
wear masks to avoid inhaling the dust during the
process.
In the 15th century hazard of lead, mercury and
dust mining concern and efforts to reduce the
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effects of exposure

Harry McShane, age 16, 1908.

Pulled into machinery in a factory
in Cincinnati. His arm was ripped off
at the shoulder and his leg broken.
No compensation paid.

OSH HISTORY
18th century AD, the Italian physician Ramazzini known as a
father of Occupational Medicine, his produce book discusses
about the effects of exposure to metals, dust and chemicals.
Issues related to safety and health in the workplace has become
a major problem since the beginning of the Industrial
Revolution.
But, production of safety regulations at the time was focused on
controlling the hazards in industrial only, not to other sectors
such as transportation, forestry and agriculture.
Only a few decades ago, occupational safety and health was first
introduced and it responsibility on employers and employees.

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IMPORTANCE SAFETY IN WORKPLACE

Can reduce the cost of clinical services panel,
treatment after the accident, reducing the risk of
legal claims and to motivate employees to increase
firm level productivity
Focus on health and safety conditions for them to
work in a safe and secure situation. To increase the
satisfaction and produce quality of work.

SAFETY & HEALTH TERMINOLOGIES

SAFETY :

The condition of being safe or freedom from harm and

injury
For occupational study, its defined as a measure of the
acceptability of risk
Simplified : injury-causing situation
HEALTH:

A state of complete physical, mental and social well

being and is not simply the absence of illness or disease
WHO
For occupational area, its refers to an attempts to
maximize the individual capacity to live happily and
productively
Simplified : disease-causing

TYPES OF ACCIDENT
Road traffic accident
Slip & trip
Accident at work
Medical negligence
Public liability
Sport injury
Abraded, scratched, or punctured : an injury
such as hitting the face when falling
Contact with an energy : mechanical, kinetic,
electrical, chemical, thermal, gravity or
radiation

IDENTIFY THE ACCIDENT

QUESTION?

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Thank You !

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