Occupational safety and health management in Malaysia: An overview
In today’s economy, globalization has shown tremendous impact on companies. Global competition increases safety and health risks and companies incurred additional cost on safety. To meet the challenges posed by these changes, revamping safety and health practices through strategies to improve perfor...
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| author | Chew Abdullah, Nor Azimah Spickett, Jeffery T. Rumchev, Krassi B. Dhaliwal, Satvinder S. |
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| description | In today’s economy, globalization has shown tremendous impact on companies. Global competition increases safety and health risks and companies incurred additional cost on safety. To meet the challenges posed by these changes, revamping safety and health practices through strategies to improve performance is critical so as to motivate workforce in creating a safe and healthy environment that lead to decrease work-related accidents and ill-health in the workplace. Although work-related accidents and ill-health are preventable, there is a need for collaboration at the international, regional, national and enterprise levels
to accomplish this mission with a positive commitment amongst all concerned. Due to that fact, companies need to focus on continual improvement of their performance in order to survive in the marketplace. One of the mean to encourage employers to achieve a higher standard of safety and health in the workplace is through effective occupational safety and health management. |
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| spelling | uum-26232011-05-16T03:58:56Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/2623/ Occupational safety and health management in Malaysia: An overview Chew Abdullah, Nor Azimah Spickett, Jeffery T. Rumchev, Krassi B. Dhaliwal, Satvinder S. HD Industries. Land use. Labor In today’s economy, globalization has shown tremendous impact on companies. Global competition increases safety and health risks and companies incurred additional cost on safety. To meet the challenges posed by these changes, revamping safety and health practices through strategies to improve performance is critical so as to motivate workforce in creating a safe and healthy environment that lead to decrease work-related accidents and ill-health in the workplace. Although work-related accidents and ill-health are preventable, there is a need for collaboration at the international, regional, national and enterprise levels to accomplish this mission with a positive commitment amongst all concerned. Due to that fact, companies need to focus on continual improvement of their performance in order to survive in the marketplace. One of the mean to encourage employers to achieve a higher standard of safety and health in the workplace is through effective occupational safety and health management. 2008 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/2623/1/Pages_from_NHRM_proceedings_2008_160708_11112222.pdf Chew Abdullah, Nor Azimah and Spickett, Jeffery T. and Rumchev, Krassi B. and Dhaliwal, Satvinder S. (2008) Occupational safety and health management in Malaysia: An overview. In: The 4th National Human Resource Management Conference 2008, 17-19 August 2008 , Tiara Beach Resort, Port Dickson. (Unpublished) |
| spellingShingle | HD Industries. Land use. Labor Chew Abdullah, Nor Azimah Spickett, Jeffery T. Rumchev, Krassi B. Dhaliwal, Satvinder S. Occupational safety and health management in Malaysia: An overview |
| title | Occupational safety and health management in Malaysia: An overview |
| title_full | Occupational safety and health management in Malaysia: An overview |
| title_fullStr | Occupational safety and health management in Malaysia: An overview |
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| title_short | Occupational safety and health management in Malaysia: An overview |
| title_sort | occupational safety and health management in malaysia an overview |
| topic | HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
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