Causes of Workplace Accident
Workplace Accident in Malaysia: Most Common Causes and Solutions
Voon Mei HuiUniversiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Gong Badak Campus, Terengganu, Malaysia
Abstract
There are various reasons for an accident to happen in a workplace. It could results to either minimal accident or tragic accidents, causing minor injury, damage to equipment or even in some cases, major injury or death. Employees need to be alert and aware at all times to avoid accidents, while managers need to master and understand the most common causes for workplace accidents and be able to identify the risk factors early to prevent it. To achieve a goal successfully, a conducive and competitive working environment may help the organization to run their daily operation smoothly. Considering on the importance of safety at workplace, the Malaysian government has introduce efforts on executing safety and health policies through the enforcement of guidelines as well as conducting site safety seminars and certifications. According to the existing record indicated that the present Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) situation in the workplace is still adverse and below expectation. This paper discussed on the issue about the most common causes of workplace accidents among workers at workplace. This paper aims to propose a conceptual framework to study the relationship between individual factors that contribute to the workplace accidents and suggested solutions on those issues. The study will utilize qualitative method to collect primary data from the workplace in Malaysia. The findings of this research are expected to provide the important information of the common causes and suggested solution that leads to the workplace accident in Malaysia. It has a significant relationship between individual factors as measured by stress and fatigue and workplace accident among workers and individual factors measured by unsafe act and workplace accident among workers. It is an important article which can reduce the
Voon Mei HuiUniversiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Gong Badak Campus, Terengganu, Malaysia
Abstract
There are various reasons for an accident to happen in a workplace. It could results to either minimal accident or tragic accidents, causing minor injury, damage to equipment or even in some cases, major injury or death. Employees need to be alert and aware at all times to avoid accidents, while managers need to master and understand the most common causes for workplace accidents and be able to identify the risk factors early to prevent it. To achieve a goal successfully, a conducive and competitive working environment may help the organization to run their daily operation smoothly. Considering on the importance of safety at workplace, the Malaysian government has introduce efforts on executing safety and health policies through the enforcement of guidelines as well as conducting site safety seminars and certifications. According to the existing record indicated that the present Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) situation in the workplace is still adverse and below expectation. This paper discussed on the issue about the most common causes of workplace accidents among workers at workplace. This paper aims to propose a conceptual framework to study the relationship between individual factors that contribute to the workplace accidents and suggested solutions on those issues. The study will utilize qualitative method to collect primary data from the workplace in Malaysia. The findings of this research are expected to provide the important information of the common causes and suggested solution that leads to the workplace accident in Malaysia. It has a significant relationship between individual factors as measured by stress and fatigue and workplace accident among workers and individual factors measured by unsafe act and workplace accident among workers. It is an important article which can reduce the
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