COSH 2011

1. How to be Accountable for
Your Safety & Health at
Work.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anuar Bin Suun
UITM, Shah Alam

2.  Question: How to be?
 Question: Are you a
manager now?
or going to be?
 Question: What is manager?

3. What is accountable?
 Responsible, answerable
&liable.
 Liable to be required to give
account.
 or In charge

4. Manager is? (If you are manager)
 Any executive who has overall
responsibility for managing both the
revenue & cost element of a company’s
income statement.
 Also responsible for leading or
coordinating the strategic planning
functions of the company.

5. General Principles (Health & Safety)
Main responsibilities and duties:-
 To ensure the health & safety at mark of
their employees & that of any other
person who may be affected by their
activities.
 To have a written policy & safety.

6. Objective
 Describe the lines of responsibility and
authority for the office’s safety
management function consistent with
OSH manual / document.

7. Organizational Function
 The head or top most manager will look
or manage the following aspect / function:
 Administration
 Public Affairs
 Legal
 Authorization
 Technical Advisory
 Strategic Planning

8. Function: Safety & Health
 The might be responsible for the
following (specific ) tasks.
 Health & Safety
 Fire Protection
 Radiation protection
 Emergency Preparedness
 Industrial Safety

9. Office of Safety & Health
 To serve to the CEO or senior manager
responsible for the safety & health of the
worker, the public & the environment.
 Accomplishes this mission by providing
leadership and strategic vision
pertaining to coordinating & integrating
compliant safety & health program.

10. It also places duties on employees to:-
1. Take reasonable care of their own health
& safety.
2. To cooperate with their employer
( to comply legal duties).
3. Not to interfere or misuse anything
provided in the interest of health, safety
or welfare.

11. Organizational Function &
Responsibilities For Safety & Health
 To assign primary functions as described
in various element of applicable public
laws, federal regulation & DOSH
directives ( policies, manual, notices,
guidance & standard).

12. Integrated Safety Management
Approach
A. Provide Guidance
B. Define scope of work:-
 Translate mission into work
 Set Expectation
 Prioritize Tasks
 Allocate Resource

13. Continued…
C. Analyze Hazards:-
 Identify & analyze hazards
 Categorized hazards
D. Develop / Implement Control:-
 Identify standard & requirements
 Identify controls to prevent hazards
 Establish safety control
 Implement control

14. Continued…
E. Perform Work
 Confirm readiness
 Perform work safely
F. Feedback / Improvement
 Collect feedback inform
 Identify improvement opportunities
 Make change to improvement
 Oversight & enforcement

15. WORK
SAFELY
(Healthy)

16. Specific Guidance for Managers..
(example)
 Specific area of health & safety (it’s necessary
for a manager to have a basic working
knowledge – duties & requirement).
 Depending on work circumstance & area
concerned:-
 Risk assessment
 Accident& incident reporting
 Use of work environment
 Manual handling

17. The Role & Responsible of the
Manager
 Who at work
 Have access for their workplace
 Perform work activities

18. The Duties / Responsible
 Establishing a proactive system to manage
health & safety.
 Implementing the department’s health &
safety procedures @ guidelines.
 Ensuring safe work practices &
procedures, established & maintain.
 Providing information , training,
supervision to employees.

19. Continued…
 Ensuring that accidents & incidents are
recorded, notified & investigated to allow
corrective action.
 Ensuring health & safety is considered prior
to the purchase of any new piece of
equipment, tools & chemicals.
 Implement procedures to manage visitors &
contractors activities within the plant / scho
 Ensuring consultative forums for health &
safety are established.

20. Case Example…
Overall purpose of the role:-
 To oversee health and safety issue
associated with the ………………
by providing independent, authorized
advice, support & asset to the
organization on the function of health &
safety.

21. What Should Be The Education /
Qualification?
 Diploma in OHS
 Full, detailed understanding on the law
 Trained in accident investigation
 Trained in auditing techniques
 Basic IT skills
 Membership of a recognized body
 EXPERIENCES
 SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & STRENGTH

22. Skills , Knowledge & Strength
1. Good communication skills
2. Able to develop working relationship
 Employees
 Contractors
 External Stakeholders
3. Organize, with the ability to prioritize work
loads & tasks
4. Proactive & pragmatic in applying
experience to operational issues
5. Keep up to-date through continual
professional develop

23. People Quote….
 A bad manager confuses activity with
performance.
 The productivity of work not the
responsibility of the workers but of the
manager.
Peter F. Drucker
 A leader knows what’s best to do: a manager
knows merely how best to do it.
Ken Adelman

24. Continued…
 An employee’s motivation is a direct
result of the sum of interactions with his
or her manager
Bob Nelson

25. Conclusion…
 Manager (example) must implement
an integrated safety management
system that is designed to protect
the safety of the workers & the
public/stake holder.
(Don’t forget prevention too)

26. Manager –
…” I’m not the manager because I’m
always right but I’m always right because
I’m manager”
A good manager is a man who isn’t
worried about his own career but rather
the carriers of those who work for him
H.S.M Burns