Development of working at height management system based on legislations in Malaysia

• Main Author: Law, Peng Hang
• Format: Undergraduates Project Papers
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/28946/1/Development%20of%20working%20at%20height%20management%20system%20based%20on%20legislations%20in%20Malaysia.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/28946/

Construction industry is one of the top dangerous industry in Malaysia because there is a high risk of accident occurrence where the construction workers are exposed to accidents such as fall from height. The awareness of safety at workplace in Malaysia has emerged since 1967 with the introduction of the Factories and Machinery Act (FMA), followed by Building Operation and Works of Engineering Construction Regulations (BOWEC) in 1968 and Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) in 1994 and Malaysian government has taken a lot of effort to reduce the number of accidents by legislations, but the construction-related accidents are still at high number especially working at height. Due to concern of this problem, a working at height management system will be developed to help the construction companies especially small medium enterprise contractors to help them to manage the compliance of legal requirements from BOWEC Regulations 1986, FMA 1976 and OSHA 1994 in terms of the working at height where such legal requirements will be taken from these three legislations for working at height activity only. The validity of the working at height management system, real case study was used by using a building construction project and interview was conducted with a safety practitioner to validate the working at height legal requirements. As a result, the working at height legal requirements and the prototype were used by a safety practitioner from construction industry to cross-check for compliance and to validate them as well. The developed working at height management system systematically help the end users to store their documentations, check compliance with working at height legal requirements from their inspection checklist and generate reports. The implementation of this system can contribute awareness of complying with the regulations and enhance their safety and health work practices.