Occupational hazard in Malaysian traffic police: special focus on air pollutants
This paper provides a specific deliberation on occupational hazards confronted daily by Malaysian Traffic Police. Traffic police is a high-risk occupation that involves a wide range of tasks and, indirectly, faced with an equally wide variety of hazards at work namely, physical, biological, psychoso...
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| author | Mohamad Jamil, Putri Anis Syahira Karuppiah, Karmegam Rasdi, Irniza How, Vivien Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri K. C. Mani, Kulanthayan Sambasivam, Sivasankar Sadeghi Naeini, Hassan Mohammad Yusof, Nur Athirah Diyana Hashim, Nurul Maizura |
| author_facet | Mohamad Jamil, Putri Anis Syahira Karuppiah, Karmegam Rasdi, Irniza How, Vivien Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri K. C. Mani, Kulanthayan Sambasivam, Sivasankar Sadeghi Naeini, Hassan Mohammad Yusof, Nur Athirah Diyana Hashim, Nurul Maizura |
| author_sort | Mohamad Jamil, Putri Anis Syahira |
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| description | This paper provides a specific deliberation on occupational hazards confronted daily by Malaysian Traffic Police. Traffic police is a high-risk occupation that involves a wide range of tasks and, indirectly, faced with an equally wide variety of hazards at work namely, physical, biological, psychosocial, chemical, and ergonomic hazards. Thereupon, occupational injuries, diseases, and even death are common in the field. The objective of this paper is to collate and explain the major hazards of working as Malaysian traffic police especially in Point Duty Unit, their health effects, and control measures. There are many ways in which these hazards can be minimised by ensuring that sufficient safety measures are taken such as a wireless outdoor individual exposure indicator system for the traffic police. By having this system, air monitoring among traffic police may potentially be easier and accurate. Other methods of mitigating these unfortunate events are incorporated and addressed in this paper according to the duty and needs of traffic police. |
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| spelling | upm.eprints-944082023-03-01T09:28:02Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/94408/ Occupational hazard in Malaysian traffic police: special focus on air pollutants Mohamad Jamil, Putri Anis Syahira Karuppiah, Karmegam Rasdi, Irniza How, Vivien Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri K. C. Mani, Kulanthayan Sambasivam, Sivasankar Sadeghi Naeini, Hassan Mohammad Yusof, Nur Athirah Diyana Hashim, Nurul Maizura This paper provides a specific deliberation on occupational hazards confronted daily by Malaysian Traffic Police. Traffic police is a high-risk occupation that involves a wide range of tasks and, indirectly, faced with an equally wide variety of hazards at work namely, physical, biological, psychosocial, chemical, and ergonomic hazards. Thereupon, occupational injuries, diseases, and even death are common in the field. The objective of this paper is to collate and explain the major hazards of working as Malaysian traffic police especially in Point Duty Unit, their health effects, and control measures. There are many ways in which these hazards can be minimised by ensuring that sufficient safety measures are taken such as a wireless outdoor individual exposure indicator system for the traffic police. By having this system, air monitoring among traffic police may potentially be easier and accurate. Other methods of mitigating these unfortunate events are incorporated and addressed in this paper according to the duty and needs of traffic police. Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2021-02-17 Article PeerReviewed Mohamad Jamil, Putri Anis Syahira and Karuppiah, Karmegam and Rasdi, Irniza and How, Vivien and Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri and K. C. Mani, Kulanthayan and Sambasivam, Sivasankar and Sadeghi Naeini, Hassan and Mohammad Yusof, Nur Athirah Diyana and Hashim, Nurul Maizura (2021) Occupational hazard in Malaysian traffic police: special focus on air pollutants. Reviews on Environmental Health, 36 (2). 167 - 176. ISSN 0048-7554; ESSN: 2191-0308 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/reveh-2020-0107/html 10.1515/reveh-2020-0107 |
| spellingShingle | Mohamad Jamil, Putri Anis Syahira Karuppiah, Karmegam Rasdi, Irniza How, Vivien Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri K. C. Mani, Kulanthayan Sambasivam, Sivasankar Sadeghi Naeini, Hassan Mohammad Yusof, Nur Athirah Diyana Hashim, Nurul Maizura Occupational hazard in Malaysian traffic police: special focus on air pollutants |
| title | Occupational hazard in Malaysian traffic police: special focus on air pollutants |
| title_full | Occupational hazard in Malaysian traffic police: special focus on air pollutants |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Occupational hazard in Malaysian traffic police: special focus on air pollutants |
| title_short | Occupational hazard in Malaysian traffic police: special focus on air pollutants |
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