THE Office of Safety, Health and Environment (OSHE), Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) has organised a briefing and sharing session on Brunei Darussalam’s Workplace Safety and Health and Order (WSHO) regulations on April 4, 2016 at the Senate Room, Chancellor Hall, UBD. The talk was conducted by Mohammad Noorfaizal bin Haji Osmena, a Senior Labour Inspector from the Brunei Darussalam’s Labour Department, Ministry of Home Affairs.
The briefing was attended by UBD’s senior management and principal officers and was aimed at sharing and providing knowledge, understanding and awareness on the importance of safety and health in the workplace and highlighting the importance of the roles and responsibilities they play as an employer or manager to create a safe working environment in order to protect the employees’ and students’ health and well-being.
The session was conducted in a lecture, sharing session and included a questions and answers format and the scope covered the existing law and order on Workplace Safety and Health Order (WSHO) 2009 and its relevant regulations.
Haji Hazilan bin Haji Ramli, the Head of OSHE, UBD as the Chairperson in his opening remarks emphasised that health and safety should be made a central focus in every organisation’s core business or operation agenda.
Mohammad Noorfaizal bin Haji Osmena presenting the Workplace Safety and Health Order (WSHO) and its relevant regulations
He asserted that most of the work related injuries, accidents or ill health are preventable but happened frequently due to the improper arrangement, implementation and monitoring of the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) policy.
Another reason is attributed to the negligence in the part of the employer or management in ensuring compliance and conformance of the WSH policy for the sake of getting the tasks done and completed without taking adequate consideration into the operational safety aspects, which in the end will take a toll on the health and even life of the employees. Ending his remarks, Haji Hazilan recommended that safety and health must be made part of our daily living culture, not limited to our home environment but as well as our work or learning environment.
The highlights of the session were the question and answer with Mohammad Noorfaizal and Hazmin Hatta bin Haji Hamzah on related and relevant issues on workplace safety and health including the current work-related injuries, accidents and diseases making several inferences to real issues that had happened in Brunei Darussalam. It was hoped that with the knowledge and understanding imparted from the session, it will assist the senior management, principal and relevant UBD’s officers to promote and prioritise safety and health in their planning, decision making and ensuring the continuity of the UBD’s operations.
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