SSS EXAMINATION NOTES (ACT &

REGULATIONS)
Factories and Machinery (Building Operation of Work
Engineering Construction) (Safety) Regulation 1986

 Regulation 18: Public Vehicular Traffic

(1) Any work performed – Close proximity to highway –
working area shall be barricaded – suitable warning signs
and warning light also appoint designated person.
(2) (a) All vehicles used in construction site shall be
roadworthy – registered – according to Road Traffic
Ordinance 1958
(b) No person shall drive – unless he is the holder of the
driving license

 Regulation 25: Site Safety Supervisor

(1) 15 hours per week
(4) Duties:
1. Inspect and rectify unsafe place of work
2. Correct unsafe practice
3. Checking subcons work – Ensure compliance with Act
4. Liaise with CSS appointed under Reg 26

 Regulation 26: Contractor’s Safety Supervisor

(1) If employs more than > 20 workers – 5 hours a week
– promoting safe conduct
(2) Must be competent – 2 Years’ experience
(3) Duties:
1. Ensure compliance with the Act
2. Promote safe conduct of work

 Regulation 27: Safety and Health Committee

(1) If main-con employed >50 workers – Shall be
establish SHC
(2) Consist of: Senior members (Main-con staff) – SSS –
CSS
(3) Meeting: Once a month

Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994

 Section 1: Application
(2) Apply throughout Malaysia to Industries – First
Schedule
(3) Exemption: Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1952 –
Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1960 of Sabah and Sarawak
– Armed Forces

 Section 4: Object of The Act

(a) To secure safety, health and welfare of person at
work
(b) To protect person at a place of work other than
person at work
(c) To promote occupational environment for person at
work
(d) To provide the means – S&H legislation – regulation-
ICOP to maintain and improve safety standards

 Section 15: General duties of employers and self-employed

person
(1) It shall be the duty of every employer or self-
employed person – ensure – so far as is practicable – the
safety, health and welfare at work
(2) Duties:
(a) Provision and maintenance of plant and systems of
work – so far as is practicable – safe and without risk to
health
(b) Making of arrangements for ensure – so far as is
practicable – safety and absence of risk – connection –
with use or operation, handling, storage, transport of
plant and substance
(c) Provision of such information, instruction, training
and supervision – necessary – so far as is practicable –
safety and health at work of his employees
(d) Place of work under control – safe and without risk to
health – provision – maintenance – access and egress –
safe without risk
(e) Provision and maintenance – working environment –
so far as is practicable – without risk to health –
adequate as regard their facilities for their welfare at
work
 Section 16: Duty to formulate safety and health policy
- Duty of every employer – prepare – as often – appropriate
revise a written statement – general policy – bring
statement – any revision – notice to all of his employees

 Section 19: Penalty for offence under Section 15 – 18

- 50 thousand Ringgits – Imprisonment not exceeding 2
years – Both

 Section 24: General duties of employees at work

(1) Duties:
(a) Take reasonable care for the safety and health
(b) To Cooperate with his employers
(c) To wear and use PPE all times
(d) To comply with any instruction – measure on OSH
instituted by his employers

(2) Penalty: 1 thousand Ringgit – Imprisonment not

exceeding 3 months – Both

 Section 30: Establishment of Safety and Health Committee at

a place of work
(1) Every employee shall establish SHC:-
(a) There are 40 or more persons
(b) The DG direct the establishment

 Section 31: Function of SHC

(a) Shall keep under review – measures taken – to ensure
safety and health of person at work
(b) Shall investigate – any matter at a place of work
(i) Which a members of committee – consider not safe –
risk to health
(ii) Which has been brought attention to his employers

Occupational Safety and Health (Safety and Health Committee)

Regulation 1996

 Regulation 5: Membership of Committee

 (1) SHC consist of
(a) A chairman
(b) A secretary
(c) Representatives of Employers
(d) Representatives of Employees
(2) <100: 2 (c)(d)
>100: 4 (c)(d)

 Regulation 11: Function of the Committee

(a) Assist development – Safety and Health
(b) Review effectiveness – Safety and Health
programmes
(c) Carry out studies – Trend of Accident – Near miss –
DO – P – OD
(d) Review Safety and Health policies

Factories and Machinery (Safety, Health and Welfare)

Regulation 1970

 Regulation 12: Working at Height

- >10 Feet: Body Harness – Fall protection

Occupational Safety and Health (Safety and Health Officer)

Order 1997

 Order 3: Class and description of industries required to

employ SHO
(a) Building operation: >20 million Ringgits

Factories and Machinery Act 1967

 Section 31: Whenever any accident which –

(a) Loss a life
(b) Causes serious body injury
(c) Three clear days exclude day of accident
(d) Damage to machinery or operator
 SSS EXAMINATION NOTES (COMMON
PAPER 2(B) QUESTIONS
 Hazard – Risk – Danger definition
(1) Hazard: Any potential – source – situation that can
cause harm to people and damage to property and
environment
(2) Risk: Relative exposure to the Hazard
(3) Effect: Combination between Likelihood and Severity

 Process of making JSA

S: Select – Select the Job (Method Statement)
R: Record – Preparing Job Step
E: Examine – Detect hazards
D: Develop – Risk control
I: Install – Install SOP
M: Monitor – Re-examine the effectiveness of control
measure

 Hierarchy of Control
- ELIMINATION
- SUBSTITUTION
- ISOLATION
- ENGINEERING CONTROL
- ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL
- PPE

 Classification of Hazard
- Physical
- Biological
- Chemical
- Ergonomic
- Psychosocial

 NADOPOD
- MC more than 4 days and fatality shall inform nearest
DOSH within 7 days
- JKKP 6 (Accident & Dangerous Occurrence): Crane collapse
– Formwork collapse – Chemical Leakage – Fire
- JKKP 7 (Occupational Poisoning & Occupational Disease)
 - JKKP 8 – Record that must send to DOSH HQ before 31 st Jan
each year
- JKKP 9 – Additional information for JKKP 6
- JKKP 10 – Additional information for JKKP 7

 Essential forms in Construction Site

- JKJ 103 (Site Registration): If work conduct more than 6
weeks shall register to DOSH 7 days before commence
work
- JKJ 105 (Registration for machinery into site)
- JKJ 106 (New machinery registration)
- PMA: 15 months
- PMT
- PMD

 Crane into site registration shall provide:

- Valid PMA
- Competent operator
- Inspected machinery

 CIDB Act 520

- Construction Industry Development Board
- Gazetted in 1994
- Green Card
- CIDB Site Registration
- Construction personnel registration
- Construction material inspection: Scaffold thickness –
Certification from provider

 Regulations under OSHA 1994

- OSHA (Employer’s Safety and Health General Policy
Statement) (Exception) 1995
- OSHA (Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazard)
Regulations 1996 (CIMAH)
- OSHA (Safety and Health Committee) Regulations 1996
- OSHA (Classification, Packaging, and Labelling of
Hazardous Chemicals) Regulations 1997
- OSHA (Use and Standards of Exposure to Chemicals
Hazardous to Health) Regulations 2000
- OSHA (NADOPOD) Regulations 2004
- OSHA (Classification, Labelling and Safety Data Sheet of
Hazardous Chemicals) Regulations 2013
 - OSHA (Noise Exposure) Regulations 2019

 Regulations under FMA 1967

- FMA (Electric Passenger and Good Lift) Regulations 1970
- FMA (Fencing of Machinery and Safety) Regulations 1970
- FMA (Person-In-Charge) Regulations 1970
- FMA (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulation 1970
- FMA (Lead) Regulations 1984
- FMA (Asbestos Process) Regulations 1986

 Enforcement bodies in Malaysia

- JKKP – DOSH
- POLICE - PDRM
- Department of Environment - DOE
- Ministry of Health – KKM

 Safety Act in Malaysia

- OSHA 1994
- FMA 1967