Accidents in the Food-Manufacturing Small and Medium Sized Malaysian Industries

Abstract

This research tried to find out the types and causes of accidents that happen in food-manufacturing factories in small and medium-sized industries (SMIs) in Kedah and the actions taken by the employers following the occurrence of the accidents. Results showed that majority of the respondents had encountered slight injuries. The majority of the accidents were caused by human factors, and employers seldom took serious actions against those involved in workplace accidents. Small cut was identified as the commonest type of accident that occurred in the SMIs for the past two years. Findings also indicated that many of the employers were less interested in giving out incentives when their employees complied with all the safety rules and regulations while punishments were less serious for those who do not complied with safety rules and regulations.

Prevalence of occupational accident; and injuries and their associated factors in iron, steel and metal manufacturing industries in Addis Ababa

“…The overall AoI prevalence presented in Table 2 is relatively greater than the prevalence of the previous studies conducted by (Abera & Yemane, 2015;Bala & Tabaku, 2010;Kifle et al, 2014;Koparkar, Joshi, Hajare, Kasturwar, & Biswas, 2014;Takele & Abera, 2007). This indicates that the prevalence of occupational AoI in ISMMI in Addis Ababa are relatively higher as compared to the prevalence of accident in Malaysian manufacturing industries (Hussin, Jusoff, Ju, & Kong, 2014), but similar to the findings of (Fitch, Villanueva, Quadir, & Alamgir, 2015) in Bengali…”

PENGUATKUASAAN PEMATUHAN PERUNDANGAN BERKAITAN KESELAMATAN DAN KESIHATAN PEKERJAAN DI SEKTOR PEMBINAAN (Enforcement of Occupational Safety and Health related Legal’s Compliances in Construction Sector)

“…Sekiranya terjadi kemalangan di tempat kerja, ia akan memberi kesan buruk kepada sesebuah organisasi. Kesan tersebut terdiri dari segi kerugian kewangan dan kehilangan moral pekerja (Hussin et al, 2009;Mansur et al, 2011;Zakaria et al, 2012;Zulkifly et al, 2021). Dalam sektor binaan pula, kemalangan menyumbang secara langsung kepada kos binaan, iaitu melalui peningkatan pampasan dan insurans, dan secara tidak langsung melalui penurunan produktiviti, ketidakpatuhan kualiti serta kelewatan kemajuan projek (Hamid et al, 2019).…”

THE EFFECT OF OWNER-MANAGER’S SAFETY LEADERSHIP AND SUPERVISOR’S SAFETY ROLE ON SAFETY PERFORMANCE IN MALAYSIA’S MANUFACTURING SMEs

“…From day to day, occupational safety problems in manufacturing SMEs remain unsolved. Unsafe conditions and workers unsafe behaviour are the cause of accident in the SME manufacturing (Hussin et al, 2009;Mansur et al, 2011;Zakaria et al, 2012). Financial vulnerability has been called as the substantial barriers for the manufacturing SMEs in Malaysia to ensure their safety performance (Sahimi et al, 2019).…”