Chapter 3
Objective:
Control of factories operations with respect to safety, health and welfare of persons Registration and inspection of machinery
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Application
OSHA 1994 supersedes the FMA 1967 in the event of any conflict FMA 1967 applies to mainly factories and construction sites FMA and OSHA enabling act (give power to minister to gazette detail regulations) Contains some general provision on safety, health and welfare
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Application
1. FMA - limited to manufacturing industry, mining and quarrying and construction 2. do not contain detail provisions on specific matters
Detail provisions are stipulated under the regulations
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Arrangement
FMA 1967 divided into 6 parts: Part 1 Preliminary Part 2 Safety, health and welfare Part 3 Persons-in-charge and certificates of competency Part 4 Notification of accidents, dangerous occurrence and dangerous diseases Part 5 Notice of occupation of factory and registration and use of machinery Part 6 General
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Part 1: Preliminary
Definition of a factory: a) There must be premises and its boundaries can be defined; b) Within the premises there is manual labor doing process c) The process must involve the making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning, washing, breaking up demolition or adapting for sale any article; andPart I building operations, hoisting machine, machinery, steam d) The processes must be for trading. (Other definitions in boiler)
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2. Inspectors may investigate accidents and dangerous occurrence and hold enquiries into more serious cases (Section 33)
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Part 6: General
1. General penalty RM2,000.00 2. Certain sections is RM5,000.00 (Section 51)
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Schedules
Schedule 1
Defines dangerous occurrences to machinery that need to be notified
Schedule 2
Describes the types of injury that may be classified as serious bodily injury
Schedule 3
Lists notifiable industrial diseases
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Factories and Machinery (Electric Passenger and Goods Lift) Regulations, 1970
Factories and Machinery (Electric Passenger and Goods Lift) Regulations, 1970
1. All new lifting machines (cranes, crab, winch) and lifting appliances (pulley and chain blocks) have a manufacturers certificate specifying safe working load with design drawing and load calculations 2. Apply to lifts used to carry persons and goods 3. Owner to provide detail design to obtain approval from DOSH (Regulation 6) 4. Capacity of a lift is based on lift car floor area and displayed clearly on each lift car (Regulation 7)
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Factories and Machinery (Electric Passenger and Goods Lift) Regulations, 1970 5. Specifications for the following components of a lift system: Machine room (Regulation 9) Lift well (Regulation 10) Landing doors (Regulation 12 and 13) Lift car (Regulation 14 to 19) Suspension system (Regulation 20 to 29)
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Factories and Machinery (Electric Passenger and Goods Lift) Regulations, 1970 6. Duties of lift owner to maintain the lift (3 monthly inspections and monthly service by competent person) 7. Enter details of all inspections and maintenance activities in lift register (Regulation 31) 8. Owner must display certificate of registration in the lift car or at the bottom of the landing (Regulation 32)
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Part 1
Specify the forms that must be used to notify the DOSH officer of a new occupancy of a factory, the start of building work, the installation of certain machinery and the notification of accidents and diseases
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Part 2
Describes the certificate of fitness that must be held for steam boilers, UPV and hoisting machines Certificate of fitness is valid for 15 months from the date of inspection (Regulation 10)
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Part 3
1. Governs the inspection of factory or machinery by DOSH
Factory and machinery inspected at regular intervals (15 months but up to 36 months at the discretion of DOSH Regulation 14) DOSH give advance notice of the inspection to the occupier Occupier prepare machinery for inspection
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Part 3
2. DOSH may direct not complying factory to improve the situation (Regulation 27) 3. Stop work notice may be issued for machinery without a current certificate of fitness (Regulation 28)
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Part 4
Inspection fees charged by DOSH
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1. Safeguarding of machinery 2. All dangerous parts of machine including the power source and transmission must be guarded 3. methods of guarding described for various parts of machine:
Part 2: Prime mover (power source) Part 3: Transmission machinery Part 4: Driven machinery
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Other machines must also be securely fenced Other form of guardings switches and interlocks Workers trained in the operation of certain dangerous machines and aware of the dangers of such machines Six schedules gives further specification for the materials and dimensions of machine guards
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Deal with factory premises and various safety, health and welfare requirements
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Factories and Machinery (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations, 1970 Key points:
4. Adequate protection are necessary before working inside a confined space (Regulation 13) 5. Flammable and dangerous liquids must be securely stored and precautions taken against fire and explosion (Regulations 14 to 17, 21, 22)
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Factories and Machinery (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations, 1970 Key points: 9. Working clothes and protective equipment (Regulation 32) 10.Welfare facilities such as toilets, drinking water, washing facilities and first aid (Regulation 33 to 38)
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Thank You