Determinants of Workers Health and Safety in the Malaysian Wooden Furniture Industry

Ratnasinga, J.; Ioraş, Florin; Bennet, Michael

doi:10.3923/jas.2010.425.430

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“…In developing countries, there has been a great concern about the magnitude of industrial noise, particularly in the textile industry in Egypt, India, China, Thailand and Tanzania [1], and in metalwork and woodwork industries in the USSR/Russia [35,36], Bulgaria [37], the Czech Republic and Slovakia [38], Poland [39,40,41,42], Turkey [43,44], Cyprus [45], Portugal [46], India [47,48,49,50,51], Pakistan [52], Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam [53,54,55], Korea [56], Hong Kong [57], Singapore [58], Iran [59], Kuwait [60] and Ghana [61].…”

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Noise Pollution in Metalwork and Woodwork Industries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Noweir

Bafail

Jomoah

2014

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

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Noise Pollution in Metalwork and Woodwork Industries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Noweir

Bafail

Jomoah

2014

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

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“…It is evidenced that enforcement of safety regulation and procedure alone is not the answer to safety climate. Another finding by local researcher was also addressed, that safety rule and regulation was the most important determinant variable in Malaysia wooden furniture industry [18]. Procedure of safety in safety regulation is a part of precaution in manufacturing plant, as previously reported by Micheal and Leschinsky [19].…”

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Exploratory Study on Safety Climate in Malaysian Automotive Manufacturing

Rahlin

Omar

Muda

et al. 2014

Int J Occup Safety & Health

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Safety climate scrutiny has been given attention by the organization in increasing productivity and efficiency in the workplace. The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between safety climate construct factors and safety climate. Safety climate measurement as developed by Vinodkumar and Bashi was used and distributed to the selected respondents in the national automotive manufacturing plant. Internal consistency of six safety construct factors and correlation between safety construct factors and safety climate were validated using reliability analysis and Pearson correlation, respectively. The survey instrument scores had acceptable overall internal consistency (a = 0.913). The correlation analysis indicated that only two factors in safety construct factors have significant with safety climate. Both factors are enforcement of regulation and procedure of safety and safeness of work environment. The finding of this study provides a useful framework for the organization in practicing safety climate. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijosh.v3i2.6101

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“…Neal and Griffin (2004), on the other hand, contended that management commitment is unremarkable related to the safety outcomes such as the number of injuries or accidents. This might be due to the management is more emphasis the roles of creating safety climate and establishing policy, rules, and procedures without the understanding of the root cause of the problems (Ratnasingam, Ioras, & Bennet, 2010). Mearns, Whitaker, and Flin (2003) found that communication is significantly associated with the rate of dangerous occurrence, which communication is an important tool for the workforce in order to understand the workplace health and safety issue.…”

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“…Mearns, Whitaker, and Flin (2003) claimed that safety management practices were associated with the safety performance and the rate of dangerous occurrence. Management plays the significant responsibility which to ensure a safe and healthy working environment (Ratnasingam, Ioras, & Bennet, 2010) where the participation of management plays a very crucial roles in everything, especially in providing safety information to employees and conducting risk assessment and safety inspection to anticipate the hazards through job analysis to ensure safety performance.…”

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The Relationship between Management Practices and Safety

Cheng¹,

Michael²,

Hamidi³

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Work-related accidents is a controversial topic in Malaysia as evidenced by the increased number of occupational accidents throughout the years. The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between management practices and safety performance in an or-ganization. The four management practices investigated are (a) training, (b) management commitment, (c) communication and feedback, and (d) employee involvement. The most effective safety practice is also identified. The data was collected at a manufacturing com-pany located in Shah Alam, Malaysia using closed-ended questionnaire. 95 respondents from the production line were involved in this study. The result found that training had a very weak relationship to the safety performance while the management commitment, as well as the communication and feedback, revealed to have a weak impact on safety perfor-mance. On the other hand, the analysis showed that employee involvement is the most ef-fective safety practice to the safety performance, as it had a moderate impact on safety per-formance. Keywords: Workplace health and safety; accidents; injuries; safety performance

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Determinants of Workers Health and Safety in the Malaysian Wooden Furniture Industry

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

Noise Pollution in Metalwork and Woodwork Industries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Noise Pollution in Metalwork and Woodwork Industries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Exploratory Study on Safety Climate in Malaysian Automotive Manufacturing

The Relationship between Management Practices and Safety

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