The review of current chemical health risk assessment implementation among manufacturing industry in Selangor, Malaysia

Abd Ghani, Mohamad Fitree (2016) The review of current chemical health risk assessment implementation among manufacturing industry in Selangor, Malaysia. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Introduction: In the Eleventh Malaysia Plan which will be implemented on 2016-2020,aims is to accelerate the momentum economic growth to ensure the strong foundation for the economic to withstand any economic shocks in future through improving the overall efficiency and capacity of productivity and innovation. As the number of manufacturing is expected to increase in future, the responsibilities of the regulatory bodies to ensure the safety of the workers and related person in manufacturing industry is well secure will also been stressed. The purposes of having Chemical Health Risk Assessment (CHRA) in workplace is to ensure the safety of the workers expose to the hazardous chemicals and to protect any potential hazard that could arise in the workplace due to the chemicals used. Objective: To review the current performance of CHRA and its implementation among manufacturing industry in Malaysia. Methodology: The CHRA reports from 30 manufacturing factories in Selangor area which conducted CHRA have been gathered and reviewed. The Hazard Rating (HR), Exposure Rating (ER) and Risk Rating (RR) were reviewed and collected from the CHRA reports. Descriptive analysis and correlation tests were used to analyze the data. Result and Discussion: The highest percentage of HR reported to be used in manufacturing industry is HR3 which is 62%. The highest percentage. of ER reported was ER2 with 49% and the highest percentage of RR identified was RR3 which rated 66%. The retrospective review study also revealed that the employer tend to choose PPE as the main control measure and the major improvement or action to be taken recommended by the certified assessor is PPE improvement due to the weaknesses of its implementation by the employer. The correlation test shows positive significant correlation between RR and Existing Control Measure. Conclusion: This current retrospective review study shown that the overall performance of chemical management at the workplace is not consistent with the sustainable implementation of chemical management at the workplace. This is based on the RR (RR) recorded which is RR3 rated as the highest percentage from all factories involved. The limitations existed during this study could be improvise for future research. Keywords: Retrospective Review, Hazard Rating (HR), Exposure Rating (ER), Risk Rating (RR), Control Measures.

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
Depositing User:	Mr Muhamad Fazril Awang
Date Deposited:	23 Nov 2022 03:33
Last Modified:	23 Nov 2022 03:33
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/436

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