Reflection Paper

Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Management Systems:

Towards Development of Safety and Health Culture
Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Management Systems help
identify, asses and evaluate appropriate actions to eliminate the health and
safety risks that have been occurring in companies and industrial firms
including in agriculture, forestry and fishery, mining and quarry,
manufacturing, construction, trade and transportation and other public or
non-public services. Implementing OSH management systems in an industry
protects the employees and employers from harm, accidents and illness in
the workplace. Particular to construction industry, provisions and
maintenance for a safe and healthy workplace results to a more effective
way to minimize cost holdings in a construction business.
Safety and health should be well managed for humanitarian
consideration, financial costs, and legal sanction. OSH management safety
involves company level, project management level, site management level,
and individual level. Hinze (1997) believes that a failure to each level leads
to an accidents and incidents that can harm the workers and the main
parties that are involved in construction process (owners, designers,
supervising companies, and contractors). The OSH must be implemented to
all levels of organizations.
The research highlighted the condition of the OSH management
system in construction industries. In fact, they categorized most construction
industries for poor OSH culture and performance. This situation must be fix
by encouraging the industries and companies to prioritize this matter. Most
business industries proved that promoting a great value for safety and health
management benefited them in terms of operational efficiencies, reduction
in lost workdays, fewer accidents and medical claims, recognitions by
insurers and regulators and improved workers retention and satisfaction. By
implementing the best way to reduce the risk of accidents and hazardous
conditions in our country will take us into achieving a zero percentage of
these risks. The OSH management system in Malaysia is one specific
example for providing and securing safety, health and welfare for the people
in their work. Malaysia directly gave importance on their OSH management
system to help lessen occupational accidents and incidents.
Through this research, I finally understand the main purpose of Safety
Management as a field of study in our Engineering program. I learned that
having a safe and healthy environment leads to a better results not only for
the whole industry but also for each individual that is associated within it.
Safety and health always starts individually on our own. And having a
commitment to this matter by practicing of safety and health policies can
also affect the environment, property and other people. My commitment for
applying safety and health management system as a student is by always
taking care of my own health and safety. I also believe that familiarizing

myself to the safety and health requirements and activities and practicing
them appropriately can improve my sense of responsibility in this matter. I
will communicate and cooperate to my other teammates or co-workers to
determine other social and current issues regarding to safety and health
management. This will also help me know my responsibilities and heighten
my knowledge for identifying hazardous conditions and strategical solutions
in a certain situation. If every single person would give appropriate and best
performance to OSH management system, it is not impossible to attain a one
hundred percent safe and healthy environment for all of us.