Rekabentuk dan pembangunan program intervensi keselamatan dalam mempertingkatkan sistem keselamatan pembinaan: pendekatan multimedia

Abstract

Safety intervention is a very important procedure in occupational safety and health management. In safety intervention employees are briefed and /or trained on how and why work has and can be done safely. In safety intervention work process is temporarily stopped and potential hazards and risk related to deviation in normal work practice is made known to the doer (employees). The employees are needed to comply with the requirement of the intervention. Compliance to the needs of such intervention is subsequently monitored and their performance in ensuring safety at work is measured. Such practices have been shown to be successful in improving safety and health at work. A safety intervention system is not limited to incident based only. That is, the scope of the work is not defined by determining the presence or absence of injuries or incidents. The scope of the work is identifying safety threats, present and/or impending and working with management and employees to mitigate those threats. However, to initiate safety intervention or preferably a safety intervention program, management has to identify the needs for such intervention. They have to determine what, where, who, when, why and how to intervene. Currently these requirements are done independently according to the expertise of the organization that wishes to carry out the needs analysis. Not every safety and heath practitioners (especially in high risk working areas such as in the construction industry) have similar competencies in determining such needs. A standard minimum requirement is needed. The employment of a need analysis System through Multimedia Approach is needed to facilitate such requirements. More importantly it should provide the flexibility to be effectively use by small and medium construction industries that lack the expertise to carry out such need analysis. This project proposes the development of a Safety Intervention Need Analysis (SINAS) software to be used by site safety supervisor or/and Construction Site Safety and Health Officer (CSSHO) to assists them in making the decision to implement safety intervention program at the work site. Such software is very relevant and timely because the software will enhance the risk analysis capability of CSSHO while reducing the ambiguity in OSH planning and decision making processes.