OSH, HIRARC and Workplace Safety Awareness Training
A one-day programme on Malaysia's occupational safety and health obligations and the HIRARC method that sits at the centre of them. The Occupational Safety and Health (Amendment) Act 2022 widened the reach of the principal Act substantially: duties that many organisations assumed applied only to factories and construction sites now apply to virtually every workplace, including offices, and the duty to conduct risk assessment is explicit rather than implied.
The programme is written for organisations that need to get this right rather than for safety professionals who already hold a certificate. It covers what the law requires of the employer, the employee and the newly formalised safety and health coordinator role, then spends the larger part of the day on doing a HIRARC properly: identifying hazards that are actually present, analysing risk without inventing a false precision, and selecting controls in the order the hierarchy demands rather than defaulting to personal protective equipment and a briefing.
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Programme Agenda
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Welcome and Programme Overview
Introduction to the session, objectives, and housekeeping.
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
The Legal Framework and What the 2022 Amendment Changed
The Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 and its 2022 amendment: the extension of the Act to almost all workplaces, the explicit duty to conduct risk assessment, the safety and health coordinator requirement for smaller workplaces, director and manager liability, and the increased penalties. How the Act relates to the Factories and Machinery Act, the regulations made under OSHA, and the role of the Department of Occupational Safety and Health as regulator.
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Break
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Duties: Employer, Employee, Designer and Occupier
The general duties in practical terms: safe plant and systems of work, information, instruction, training and supervision, a safe place of work and safe access, and a written safety and health policy. Employee duties and why they matter when an incident is investigated. Duties owed to non-employees, contractors and visitors, and the split of responsibility on a shared site.
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
HIRARC Step One: Hazard Identification
Classifying hazards: physical, chemical, biological, ergonomic and psychosocial, with psychosocial hazards now explicitly part of the picture. Techniques that surface real hazards, including workplace inspection, task observation, review of past incidents and near misses, and asking the people who do the job. Working through a routine and a non-routine task, and covering maintenance, cleaning, breakdown and emergency conditions rather than only normal operation.
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
HIRARC Step Two: Risk Analysis and Evaluation
Assessing likelihood and severity, using a risk matrix consistently across assessors, and the honest limits of a numeric risk score. Determining which risks are tolerable and which require action, and how existing controls are accounted for. Participants complete risk analysis on their own identified hazards and compare scores to see where subjectivity creeps in.
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
HIRARC Step Three: Risk Control
The hierarchy of controls applied properly: elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment last. Why the bottom two rungs are chosen so often and what it costs. Residual risk, control verification, and re-assessment triggers including new equipment, process change, an incident, or a change in the law.
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Break
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Committees, Reporting and Emergency Preparedness
The safety and health committee: when it is required, how it is constituted and what makes it useful rather than ceremonial. Incident, accident, occupational disease and dangerous occurrence reporting under the NADOPOD regulations, and what has to be reported to DOSH and when. Investigation that finds a cause rather than a culprit. Emergency response arrangements, drills, and the documentation an inspector will ask to see.
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM
HIRARC Practical
Participants complete a full HIRARC worksheet for one activity in their own workplace, including controls, owners and review dates, and present it for peer challenge.
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Wrap-Up and Q&A
Key takeaways, next steps, and close.
Key Outcomes
- State the employer, employee and coordinator duties under OSHA 1994 as amended in 2022 and how they apply to their own workplace
- Identify physical, chemical, biological, ergonomic and psychosocial hazards across routine and non-routine work
- Analyse and evaluate risk consistently using a matrix, accounting for existing controls
- Select controls in hierarchy order and justify why a lower-order control was accepted
- Operate incident reporting under NADOPOD and run an investigation that identifies causes
- Complete a HIRARC worksheet for their own activities with owners and review dates
Training Mode Physical / Online / Hybrid / e-learning
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Level Foundation to intermediate, suitable for safety and health coordinators and committee members, supervisors, line managers, human resources, facilities and operations staff
Duration 1 Day (8 Hours) | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Venue In-house at the client's premises, or delivered via the client's preferred platform (Microsoft Teams, Zoom, or equivalent)
Assessment Completed HIRARC worksheet plus a 10 to 15 question knowledge assessment
Certificate Certificate of Completion issued to all participants upon full attendance