WEB BASED OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH

 In this topic, I have learned that occupational safety and health (OSH) is very important for employee and organization to make the safe and healthy environment in workplace. OSH means interdisciplinary area concerned with protecting the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in work or employment. There are many organizations (government) serve to promote occupational safety and health at work. For example the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).Their function are includes promoting safety and health in the community, education and training, consultancy services, research and, strategies development, and information dissemination.

             The act of Occupational Safety and Health 1994 was established in order to secure safety, health, and welfare among all workforces and also aim to protect against safety and health during doing activities in workplace. All of these are implemented by the Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) under Ministry of Human Resource to reduce occupational incidents and accidents in Malaysia.

                Basically all company need an effective safety and health management to every employee. This is because of humanitarian consideration, legal sanction and financial cost. So, it is very important to establish the use of web based in managing the OSH. Web based is very functional in worker’s compensation on claims, safety and health training records and accident reporting and record keeping. It will be easier to manage and benefits for both the organization and the employees. In order to manage effectively using the web based system, management can use the digital tools for managing safety. Digital technologies, such as the online databases, VR, GIS, 4D CAD, BIM, sensing/warning technologies etc., are widely applied in these tools for site hazard prevention and safe project delivery. Online databases are commonly used in assessing competence of different stakeholders. VR and database technologies to assist users in identifying potential the construction risks contained in the design at the construction stage while advantage of 4D CAD is to analyze on-site dynamics to enable safe project delivery. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and BIM have also become used in conjunction with 4D CAD to better understand construction safety issues by considering environment impact and design information.

So, it will worth the organization in increasing their operational efficiencies, reduce time and work accident and increase workers retention and satisfaction when the web based system on OSHA are applied effectively and efficiently.

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