PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH 2

WEB 20302
S2 ‘2016
TECHNICAL REPORT (RESEARCH)

L03-T01
MADAM NURUL FAREEHAH MOHD URI

NO NAME ID
1. TAJ MAHAL BINTI HASHIM 51215115229
2. NUR NADHIRAH BINTI RUZEE 51215115209
3. NURUL ATIQAH BINTI ROSMAN 51215115189
4. SYAZWANI BINTI MAMAT 51215115227
5. NUR AMALINA BINTI MOHAMAD RUSDI 51212115134

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 ABSTRACT

Machinery hazards and safety practices measure awareness of the workers in industry for both
local and multinational companies in Malaysia. Consequently, the study assessed the level of
awareness of workers in industry for both local and multinational companies in Malaysia. The
sets of questionnaire and face to face interview were the research design that have been used for
this study, distributed to the workers from Perodua Manufacturing Sdn. Bhd. and Tan Chong
Assemblies Sdn. Bhd. The objectives of this research are to observe level of awareness of
workers in industry about the safety of machinery related hazard for both companies, to
determine different safety practices in both companies and to find out ways to prevent machinery
accident from happen in workplace for both companies. Based on the finding research, the
electrical shock is the most hazard that cause the injury and the level of awareness among
workers of multinational company is higher compared to national company.

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We would like to acknowledge several individuals that have been participated during our
research. First of all, we would like to thank our lecturer, Madam Nur Fareehah binti Mohd Uri
with all of her supports and guidance in helping us to finish our task. We also would like to give
our appreciation towards our campus, British Malaysian Institute for giving permission to site
visiting the company.

Special appreciation to the Tan Chong Motors Sdn. Bhd. for giving us permission and
cooperation during our research processes. This site visit gives us an early view of industry
environment and really helps us out in finding the awareness of machinery hazards among the
workers.

Last but not least, a special gratitude to all team members for the works and commitment for the
whole process in completing this research paper.

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Table of Contents
ABSTRACT ...................................................................................................................................1
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT .............................................................................................................2
TABLE OF CONTENT ................................................................................................................3
CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................5
1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY ................................................................................................5
1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT .....................................................................................................5
1.3 THE OBJECTIVES…………………………..……………………………………....…. 6
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS………………………………………………………………. 6
1.5 SCOPE OF STUDY ……………………………………………………….………....…. 7
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY ……………………………………………….……. 7
1.7 LIMITATION OF STUDY …………………………………………………..………… 7
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW…………………………………………………..… 8
2.1 REVIEW OF LITERATURE…………………………………………………………. 8
CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY…………………………………………………………… 12
3.1 SAMPLES/PARTICIPANT……………………………………………….…………… 12
3.2 RESEARCH DESIGN ……………………………….………………………………… 12
3.3 DATA COLLECTION ………………………..……………………………………...… 12
3.4 DATA ANALYSIS ……………………………………………………………………….12
3.5 PROCEDURE ……………………………………………………………......….……… 13
CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION FOR RQ1 …………………………...…… 14
4.1 FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION FOR RQ1 ………………………………………….. 14
4.2 FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION FOR RQ2 …………………………………………. 17
CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION ………………………………………………………………. 18
5.1 CONCLUSION ……………………………………………………………………….. 18
5.2 RECOMMENDATION ……………………………………………………………….. 18
REFERENCE LIST………………………………………………………………………...... 20
APPENDIX ………………………………………………………………………………… 21

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background Of Study

Every employee in the workplace requires safe working environment. This involve safety
while handling machinery. In the field of mechanical machinery industry, safety of employees is
very significant as the manufacturing area is vulnerable while handling the machines. Most of
the work in the factories need to be done by using machines.

If the machine is not handled properly, it will cause unwanted incidents or accidents that
affect the production of the factory. For example, in places where complete machine are handled,
it is very dangerous if any accident occur. In fact, there are so many other ways that can result in
various accident in the workplace. Accident occur for many reasons.

This problem still happens to this day and still unresolved. This case concerns the workers
who are in this area and we are sure that with this knowledge regarding safety awareness while
handling machinery should be enhance in workers and people in the industry to solve this issue.

1.2 Statement Of Problem

Workplace accidents not only can be very dangerous but also can cause huge impact in daily
production of a company depending on the field of work. Understanding why and how
machinery accident can happened is the first step in preventing it as the solution. Firstly, it has
been recorded that there were frequent numbers of accident due to the machinery hazard
occurred each year at the workplace. It can be more serious and badly affected the image of the
company if there is no step taken in the prevention.

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 Besides, we had identify there are some different safety practices in both local and
multinational companies in Malaysia. The different safety practices can cause different level of
awareness among the workers in the industry.

Since we are Universiti Kuala Lumpur British Malaysian Institute (UniKL BMI)
students, we want to do the research that involved in machinery related hazard so that we can
find the out the way to prevent serious machinery accident from happening based on local and
multinational companies in Malaysia so that we can apply that knowledge in labs and workshops
in our university.

1.3 Research Objectives

1. To observe level of awareness of workers in industry about the safety of machinery

related hazard around industry specifically in both local and multinational companies in
Malaysia.
2. To determine different safety practices in both local and multinational companies in
Malaysia.
3. To find out ways to prevent machinery accident from happen in workplace both local and
multinational companies in Malaysia.

1.4 Research Questions

1. What is the level of awareness of workers in industry regarding the safety of machinery
related hazard around industry specifically in both local and multinational companies in
Malaysia?
2. How the local and multinational companies Malaysia practice their safety practices
specifically in usage of machinery?
3. How to prevent machinery accident from happen in workplace both local and
multinational companies in Malaysia?

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1.5 Scope of Study
The scope of study only covers both local and multinational companies around Selangor in
Malaysia.

1.6 Significance of Study

The significant of study is to enhance the knowledge in safety awareness related to
machinery hazard. Different company have different ways in applying safety in the
workplace. This cause different safety working culture in different company. Other than that,
this assignment can help students to acknowledge the differences between local and
multinational companies in Malaysia specifically in safety practices while handling
machinery equipment. Students need to go to the company to investigate this matter so that
they have a proper idea of the safety practices. The knowledge can be applied so that any
accident specifically related to machinery equipment can be prevent not only in UniKL BMI
but also in workplace after this.

1.7 Limitation of Study

There are some limitations of study during conducting the research. Firstly, we are unable to
enter the factory freely because of the rules and regulations applied in the company
workplace. Other than that, the journal that explain machinery hazards are very few which
prevent information to be obtain easily. Besides that problem related to time management
and schedule of the company also affected this research. In the company there are many
department which causes problem in deciding which department are the best in explaining
this matter to make the research’s result more accurate. Lack of experience in this field also
affecting the research.

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CHAPTER 2 : LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 Review of literature

Accident maybe define as unplanned and uncontrolled events in which the action or reaction of an
object, substance, person or radiation results in personal injury or the probability (heinrich et al.,
1980). Manuele (2010:33) defines a hazard as ‘the potential for harm’ and describes hazards as
‘all aspects of technology and activity that produces risk’. There are many factors that can cause
the machinery hazard such as human factors, the characteristic of equipment and the organization.
However, how risks are perceived affects how they are managed and the subsequent effect on
organizational processes (Fung, Tam, Lo, & Lu, 2010; Hambach, Mairiux, Francois, Braeckman,
Balsat , Van Hal, et al,. 2009). Herein lies the problem, different people judge the same risks
situation in different ways (March & Shapira, 1987; Kahneman, Slovik & Tversky, 1982; Weyman
& Clarke, 2003; Tolbert 2005; Binder, Scheufele, Brossard & Gunther, 2010). Brewer, Chapman,
Gibbons, Gerrard, McCaul, and Weinstein (2007), note that workers generally have difficulty in
determining the probability that risk will eventuate into serious harm or injury with their perception
often influenced by their own individual experience (Burke, Sheurer, & Meredith, 2007).

Studies done on machinery hazard in the workplace were carried out for various objectives. A
study done by Noorul Huda, Norudin, & Zalinawati (2012) is to identify elements that contribute
to the workplace accident among workers at workplace as well as to examine the relationship
between individual factors as measured by stress and fatigue, unsafe act, with workplace accident
among workers. Furthermore, they also stated that nature of job as measured by machineries or
tools, designs of workplace, and training procedures, with workplace procedures among workers.
This paper was also aimed to assess awareness of occupational hazards and health problems of
sawmill workers (Adeoye O. A., Adeomi A. A., Abodunrin A. L., Olugbenga-Bello A. I., &
Abdulsalam S. T., 2015). Yahya R., Seyed S. A., Saber V., Hamidreza F., & Sakineh V. (2015)
have conducted to study that aimed to identify safety, health and ergonomically hazards and
recommend the control measures in the automotive repair shops in Terkab City in Iran. While,
(Vitharana V.H.P., Subashi G.H.M.J., & Sudhira, 2015) focused on the awareness on possible risk
factors and knowledge on how to reduce these risk factors among workers and contractors will
enhance site safety. Moreover, this paper also wants to identify hazards that lead to risk in the

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workplace in order to inform processes to successfully control those risks (Bahn S.T., 2012).
Besides, to improve workers’ and site managers’ hazard awareness, and help them find hazards in
their workplace (Dzeng R. J., Hsueh H. H., & Chang R. N. 2015). The purpose of this research is
to determine the level of awareness of contarctors on OSH management systems (Mohd Kamar,
Lop N.S., Mat Salleh, Mamter S., & Suhaimi, 2014).

The information have been collected from both domestic and developed countries. The researchers
have been using qualitative method, quantitative method and questionnaire. Bahn S. T. (2012)
used quantitative method by distributing the closed-ended questionnaire to the 77 employees of an
underground mining operation in Western Australia. The questionnaire included hazards that lead
to risk in the workplace. In another studies, Vitharana V.H.P., et al. (2015) used qualitative method
which is document analysis. 200 articles is collected, 37 out of 200 articles were selected and
reviewed, in order to identify the health hazards and risks in construction sites. Furthermore,
Noorul Huda, et al. (2012) also used the same method which is qualitative method by distributing
questionnaire to the employees at Pangkalan Bekalan Kemaman Sdn Bhd (PBKSB). The number
of population was drawn from the sampling frame of 322 workers at PBKSB. 71 were at
administration workers and the rest 251 were for the technical workers. The questionnaire is about
the course of accident hazards. The researchers used different method which is qualitative method.
The face to face interview was conducted with operation managers, operation executive, foreman
and the workers. The question is focused on the same set in order to obtain the required data related
to this study. This studies was conducted within 100 sawmill workers in Osun State, Nigeria
selected via multistage sampling technic from September 2012 to January 2013. Pretested
questionnaire, walk-through survey checklist and interview guide were used to collect data from
respondants (Adeoye O. A., et al., 2015). 63 car repair shops in the Tekab City, Iran were
identified. The researchers with the participation of employees broke any of jobs into their
constituent tasks and steps. Then the researchers identified each step hazards and calculated related
risks (Yahya R., et al., 2015). Dzeng R. J., et al. (2015) used qualitative method which is
observation 3D construction sites model and developed and interactive hazard identification game
is observed. The researcher also used the same method which is data collection. 396 cases that
involved construction industry accident in Taiwan from 2008 to 2010 is collected. 20 hazards of 5
accident types including falls, collapses, electric shock, explosion, and harmful substance contacts
are selected. A total of 34 numbers of class A contractors in Kelantan registered with Pusat

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Khidmat Kontraktor (PKK) were randomly selected. Data was collected using self-administered
questionnaire. The question ask in the questionnaire are based on a likert skill and open-ended
question (Mohd Kamar, et al., 2014).

The findings from these journals are manifold. One of the studies which focused on commercial
sector by Bahn S. T. (2012). The findings revealed the 2 hazard identification and hazard
management training workshops had a positive impact. It is a basic right of employees to be safe
at work, but working safely relies on identifying risk. Managers and employees need to have
sufficient knowledge to identify hazard that lead to risk in the workplace. From the research
conducted by Vitharana V.H.P., et al. (2015) show that by comparing health hazard, in different
studies, it can be seen that health hazards having acute effects such as workers fall from height,
have been reported more frequently. It was reported that 1107 major injuries are due to falling
from a height according to the Health and Safety Statistics Highlights for the time period 2003 to
2004. Many of acute affects identify in previous studies include falls in construction sites.
Possible causes of this hazard might be unclear walkways a risky slips, trips and falls. Noorul
Huda, et al. (2012), the researchers that the respondents have good knowledge regarding the
cause of the accident hazard respondents were ask about the machinery and tools that were listed
contributing factors to the workplace accident. It was revealed that the use of old machineries
and tools found to be problematic to the workers in handling them. Sometimes there were unable
to perform while and caused accident that may harm the workers themselves. Based on the
interview, conducted with the assistant manager of quality help safety and environment it was
highlighted that the unsafe act was one of the cause of the accident at the workplace. Some
workers did not follow the rules as outlined by the company such as conducting proper
inspection before and during performing the task. However, there were only several workers that
were not aware about wearing glove and the goggle. Adeoye O. A., et al. (2015) contributed
pretested questionnaire, walk-through survey checklist and in-depth interview guide to 100
sawmill in Osun State, Nigeria selected via multistage sampling technique from September 2012
to January 2013. Socio-demographic characteristics of sawmill workers and mechanics were
recorded with similar age group of 20 to 39 years. The workers were asked on their personal
usage of protective equipment. The survey showed that most of Sawmill workers never used of

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personal protective equipment. In addition, these workers were asked about their perception of
possible hazard in their workplace. The most possible hazard at their place is wood dust. Based
on Yahya R., et al. (2015), there were 9 jobs identify based on the risk assessment and risk
priorities. Inhalation of acid and soldering mist paper and contact with unsafe equipment is the
most important accident in the battery repairing and lathing job respectively. Fire caused by
thinner gasoline, paint and resin, severe trauma to the hand and feet, and contact with welding
film is the most important accident in the painting, car smooth working and repairing radiator job
respectively. Fire also caused by the gasoline and motor oil is the most important accident in the
oil changes and tyre change and mechanical technician jobs. Falling car on person is the most
important accident in the front part of car repair and absorbers and exhaust repair jobs. Dzeng R.
J., et al. (2015) revealed out the result of contribute which is 58 students received the accident
analysis and case summary lectures. This to test including safety knowledge and hazard
identification help students to realize the working scenario better than traditional course. Last but
not least, Mohd Kamar, et al. (2014) stated that found that the most of the class A contractor in
Kelantan aware that the occupational safety and health management system are important should
be practiced to achieve zero accident and death on site.

In this research, level of awareness of workers in industry about the safety of machinery related
hazard around industry is crucial to determine the effectiveness of the safety practices in
workplace. Other than that, observation can be made by analyse the differences between safety
practices in machinery usage in local and multinational companies. This research also will then
help to find ways to prevent machinery accident from happen in workplace both local and
multinational companies in Malaysia.

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CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY

3.1 Samples/Participants

This study chose probability sampling in samples selection. Participants were chosen at random.
The researchers randomly chose participants at multinational and local company during data
collection process. Four respondents that are from Tan Chong Assemblies Sdn. Bhd. consist of
one male, two female and one safety officer. Most of them are between the ages 20 to 30 years
old. Three person are graduated from bachelor programme and one person is graduated from
diploma programme. Another details are taken from Perodua Manufacturing Sdn. Bhd., four
respondents consist of two male, one female and one safety officers. Most of them are between
the ages 20 to 30 years old. All of them are graduated from bachelor programme.

3.2 Research Design

Both research are conducted by using mixed method. Data is collected through interview and
questionnaire. The results is presented in percentages of bar chart and pie charts.

3.3 Data Collection

The data is collected through the questionnaire and interview with the permission from both
companies. The face to face interview was conducted with safety officer from both companies.
The sets of questionnaire were distributed to the workers. Focusing on the same set of questions
in order to obtain the required data related to this study and achieve the objectives of the
research.

3.4 Data analysis

The collected data were manually analyzed by the researchers since no software computer is
used. Firstly, the data were grouped into several categories. Then, data were grouped into type of
hazard that occurred in both workplaces. Next, based on the questionnaire and face to face
interview, the table of data is tabulated.

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3.5 Procedure
Before this research is conducted, an appointment has been set with both companies. Both
companies which are Tan Chong Motor Assemblies Sdn. Bhd. and Perodua Manufacturing Sdn.
Bhd. were been chosen as the samples for this research. An interview session is conducted with
the safety officer, Encik Ikhsan from Tan Chong Assemblies Sdn. Bhd. and Encik Hafiz from
Perodua Manufacturing Sdn. Bhd. After the interview session is conducted, the sets of
questionnaire were distributed among the workers. The four participants were randomly picked.
From the sets of questionnaire, the data is analyzed.

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CHAPTER 4: FINDING AND DISCUSSION

4.1. Finding and Discussion for RQ1

Questionnaire Survey

From the survey, it is founded that most of the respondent have major injury on electrical shock.

Physical Hazard
120

100
100

80
PERCENTAGE (%)

60

50 50 50
40

20 25

0
Electrical shock Fracture Burns Noise Others

Bar chart 1: Physical hazards identified in previous study for multinational company

Based on the bar chart for multinational company, it can be seen from the bar chart that the
electrical shock is the most common of physical hazard because the percentages of the electrical
shock is the highest, which is 100%. For burns, noise and others physical hazard are shown the
same percentages, which is 50% while the percentages for the fracture is 25%. The fracture
contributed the least physical hazard towards workers in the multinational company.

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 Physical Hazard
120

100
100

80
PERCENTAGE (%)

60

50 50 50
40

20 25

0
Electrical shock Fracture Burns Noise Others

Bar Chart 2: Physical hazards identified in previous study for national company

Based on the bar chart for multinational company, it can be seen from the bar chart that the
electrical shock is the most common of physical hazard because the percentages of the electrical
shock is the highest, which is 100%. For burns, noise and fracture of physical hazard are shown
the same percentages, which is 50% while the percentages for the others is 25%. The others
contributed the least physical hazard towards workers in the national company.

From both of the companies, multinational and national, it can be seen that electrical shock is the
major cause of injury in the workplace .Generally, most of them are new workers and have least
experience in the industry. This is because their work experiences within two to five years work
experiences only. It is due to the fact that, they were new in the industry and do not have much
exposure in this field. Consequently, they have lack of knowledge regarding safety practices and
awareness of machinery related hazard. Therefore, as the prevention of the physical hazards, both
of the companies, multinational and national, safety training, safety inspection and have proper
Occupational Safety and Health documentation are important and should be practiced to achieve
zero accident and death at workplace.

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Figure 1.1 shows the level of awareness among workers from multinational and national
companies.

Level of awareness among workers (%)

40%
Multinational company
National company
60%

There are about 60% of the level of awareness of the workers from multinational company and
about 40% of the level of awareness of the workers from the national company. This indicates that
the level of awareness among workers from multinational company very aware compared to
national company.

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4.2. Findings and Discussion for RQ2

The qualitative data is generated based on the interview with the executive for safety department
to strengthen the secondary data analysis procedures. The respondent was asked about the
machineries and tools that were listed contributing factors to the workplace. It was revealed that
the use of the old machineries and tools found to be problematic to the workers in handling them.
Most of the old machineries and tools have been disposed due to the several times of problems
occurred. Sometimes they were unable to perform well and caused accident that may harm the
workers themselves.

Based on the interview conducted with the executive of safety department it was highlighted that
the unsafe act was one of the causes of accident at the workplace. Some workers did not follow
the rules as outlined by the company such as conducting proper inspection before and during
performing the tasks.

Moreover, other factors that contributed to the accident at the workplace were caused by stress and
fatigue as well as the design of workplace. Workers needed to complete a hard task that might
cause fatigue and then lost their concentration in completing their tasks. This problem then lead to
the cause of injury at the workplace. The design of the workplace also can causes the injury. This
is because at their workplace, there are not enough safety precautions and regulations during
handling the machineries and tools.

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CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION

5.1 Conclusion
Based on the research, the conclusion that can be made is that there is some different
between level of awareness of workers in industry about the safety of machinery related hazard
around industry specifically in both local and multinational companies in Malaysia. Based from
supporting evidences, multinational companies have better awareness compared to local
companies. In multinational companies, every effort taken to increase the safety in workplace is
taken into serious matter and will be done quickly despite the cost while in local companies, it is
hard to implement any new safety precautions especially when it is involved with usage of
money. This showed that multinational companies are more serious in observing safety issue
among their workers. From interview session with executive safety officer in multinational
company, after implementation of safety precaution, number of incidents happened due to
mistake while handling equipment is significantly low. This happened due to high level of safety
awareness among workers.

Other than that, based on survey that had been done, the best way to prevent machinery
accidents from happening in workplace is implementation of proper safety practices. This could
significantly minimize the risk of accidents in workplace. Other than that, training and practices
could also help in preventing machinery accidents. Safety training courses are compulsory to
new workers to make them understand how machines work in their new workplace. This also
help in teaching them the right way to use the machines to avoid any misconduct. In other hand,
regular maintenance of machinery equipment is very important to prevent machinery accidents
from happening. As the conclusion, multinational companies have better safety awareness and
safety implementation compared to local companies.

5.2 Recommendation
From the research, some recommendation can be made to make create safety
environment in workplace. Inculcating safety awareness among employees, employers play a
major role. Employers should support and allow any effort taken to increase safety awareness
among workers. Other than that, workers should follow every safety precautions given to them to

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avoid any accident happened in workplace. On top of that, training and attending safety courses
should be done regularly not only towards new workers but also senior workers to refresh their
understanding on safety matter. This help to minimize any possible chances of accident to
happened. Old machines should always be check and maintained regularly followed the
recommendation from supplier to make sure it is working at its optimum performance. This act is
crucial because most serious accident cases happened due to bad maintenance of machinery
equipment.

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APPENDIX

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We are Professional English 2 students of University Kuala Lumpur British Malaysian Institute
(UniKL BMI) conducting study to find out and explore awareness of machinery related hazard
among workers in the local and multinational companies in Malaysia. The objectives of this
research are to observe level of awareness of workers in industry about the safety of machinery
related hazard around industry specifically in both local and multinational companies in
Malaysia, to determine different safety practices in both local and multinational companies in
Malaysia and to find out ways to prevent machinery accident from happen in workplace both
local and multinational companies in Malaysia.
Instruction: Please tick (/) the answer in the box below or fill in the blanks for the questions
below.
Part A: Demographic
1. Gender
 Male
 Female

2. Age
 20-25 years old
 26-30 years old
 31 and above

3. What is your level of education?

 PMR
 SPM/Certificate
 Diploma
 Bachelor
 Master
 PhD

4. Work experience
 Less than 2 years
 2-5 years
 6-10 years
 11-15 years
 More than 15 years

5. Nationality
 Malaysian
 Non-Malaysian. Please state: _______________

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Part B:: Machinery Hazard

1. Do you know what is the machinery related hazard?

 Yes
 Maybe
 No

2. Do you use machine in your daily work?

 Yes
 Maybe
 No

3. How frequent do you use the machine?

 Once a week
 2-3 days
 4-5 days
 Everyday

4. What type of hazard usually happened in your company?

 Electric shock
 Fracture
 Burns
 Noise
 Others. Please state:__________________

5. Do you know the safety for the machinery hazard?

 Yes
 Maybe
 No

6. If yes, do you apply it when at work?

 Yes
 Sometimes
 No

7. Company experience in safety practices?

 Less than 2 years
 2-5 years
 6-10 years
 11-15 years
 More than 15 years
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Part C: Level of awareness

11. What is the level of awareness of machinery related hazard?

 Very aware
 Aware
 Not aware

2. What type of safety practices in you company?

 Safety training
 Safety inspection
 Consultation
 Have proper Occupational Safety and Health documentation
 Others. Please state:__________

3. What are factors that cause the hazard? (You can choose more than one answers)
 Stress and fatigue
 Unsafe act
 Design of workplace
 Machineries/tools
 Training procedure
 Others. Please state:_______

4. Please suggest the ways how to improve the awareness of machinery hazard among workers?
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you.

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 INTERVIEW QUESTIONS FOR SAFETY OFFICER

1. Explain your job scope.

2. What is your important role to maintain the safety in workplace?
3. What is the issue that always happened in the company related to machinery safety
precaution?
4. Which department usually highly exposed towards to hazard in workplace?
5. What is the role of safety while handling machinery in workplace?
6. What is the precaution taken by company to maintain safety in workplace?
7. Is there any program/courses/training prepared for the workers to enhance their awareness
on safety?
8. Is there is any safety certification need to be taken by the workers?
9. Do the new workers have issue related to machine handling?
10. What did your company do to new workers to make them adapt the usage of the machines?
11. What to determine the machines are safe to use?
12. What do your company do towards the machines that are already unsafe to be use by the
workers?
13. Does your company do any regular safety inspection?
14. How many time does your company services the machines to avoid any machinery
problem?
15. What is your company action if any emergency happened due to unsafe machine handling
operation?
16. When there is a new machine, do your company conduct any training to make workers
familiar with the machine?
17. How long is the period taken by workers to be familiar with new machine?
18. Do your company apply any specific rules and regulations in handling machinery
equipment?
19. What did your company do if any of your workers broke this rule?
20. What is your plan in improving the awareness of workers in safety while handling
machinery equipment?

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