The significant effect of occupational safety and health management system towards contractor engagement in the engineering construction.

Abstract

Water services in Malaysia is a crucial element whereby there is an aggressive demand every year. Among the areas of concern are the water supply coverage and volume, sustainability of water quality, high operation and maintenance cost, high non-revenue water (NRW) and operational efficiency of the water industry. In this paper, the main objective is to analyse the occupational safety and health management system implementation towards contractor engagement related to the water industry in Malaysia, in relations to the management capability, knowledge resources and risk assessment. This paper provides preliminary overview of the OSH Management System related issues in water services through the interviews with 10 employees at different company levels, addressing perceptions of various safety management activities according to managers and operational personnel. The interview shows that managers and operational personnel at engineering construction agree that the significant effect measures aimed to improved safety continuously. At the end of this paper, the improvements including involving operational personnel in the design of procedures, contractor engagement, considering all risk dimensions that may affect OSH and challenging the value of specific OSH activities based on a detailed knowledge if the distinctive characteristics of workplace in engineering construction.