Healthy and safe work conditions involve both prevention of physical and mental harm, and promotion of workers’ health. Health and safety work conditions are recognised as a human right and addressed in authoritative intergovernmental instruments, including ILO, OECD, World Health Organization (WHO) and a target of the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the UN. This covers considerations around work-related hazards, ill health, and injuries. Overall, in a company’s increasing maturity in occupational health and safety, hazard identification, risk assessment, worker training, and incident investigation are key to planning, supporting, operating, and evaluating the company’s occupational health and safety management system. The disclosures included here include the highconsequence incidences as well as work-related injuries. The disclosures additionally seek to include preemptive training provided to employees. The Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 provides a legislative framework for the safety, health and welfare in the Malaysian workforce. The principle is to prevent and protect the workers against hazards and its risk in connection with their activities at work. It requires all companies to establish: Safety and health policy, Duties of the employer, employees and the safety and health officers, The safety and health committee of companies, and Occupational safety and health inspections and officers.
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