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    The Disaster at Syarikat Zumaju Sdn. BHD

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    The factory manager Nathan was called into work early after a worker had a serious accident on a metal-cutting machine. The worker's hand was badly cut, mangling two fingers, after slipping in a pool of oil and grabbing the machine. An ambulance took too long to arrive while the injured worker continued to bleed. The company had neglected safety practices to focus on production targets. An investigation found the injured worker had done overtime without safety training, and other workers did not properly use protective gloves. The safety committee had not met in 5 months.

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    The factory manager Nathan was called into work early after a worker had a serious accident on a metal-cutting machine. The worker's hand was badly cut, mangling two fingers, after slipping in a pool of oil and grabbing the machine. An ambulance took too long to arrive while the injured worker continued to bleed. The company had neglected safety practices to focus on production targets. An investigation found the injured worker had done overtime without safety training, and other workers did not properly use protective gloves. The safety committee had not met in 5 months.

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    The factory manager Nathan was called into work early after a worker had a serious accident on a metal-cutting machine. The worker's hand was badly cut, mangling two fingers, after slipping in a pool of oil and grabbing the machine. An ambulance took too long to arrive while the injured worker continued to bleed. The company had neglected safety practices to focus on production targets. An investigation found the injured worker had done overtime without safety training, and other workers did not properly use protective gloves. The safety committee had not met in 5 months.

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    The factory manager Nathan was called into work early after a worker had a serious accident on a metal-cutting machine. The worker's hand was badly cut, mangling two fingers, after slipping in a pool of oil and grabbing the machine. An ambulance took too long to arrive while the injured worker continued to bleed. The company had neglected safety practices to focus on production targets. An investigation found the injured worker had done overtime without safety training, and other workers did not properly use protective gloves. The safety committee had not met in 5 months.

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    Exercise 1

    The Disaster at Syarikat Zumaju Sdn. Bhd



    Nathan was exhausted. He had a bad headache caused by the stress of what had been a very
    long day. As Factory Manager, he was responsible for the production of all Syarikat Zumajus
    products and the 200 production workers. The company made mostly steel filing cabinets, which
    sold very well, as well as few other minor items such as metal safes for the home consumer.
    The company used to have a Safety and Health Officer, but after he had resigned six month
    ago, the position had remained vacant.

    Nathan had received a telephone call from night-shift supervisor at 4.00 a.m., asking him to
    come to work as there had been a bad accident. When he arrived thirty minutes later, he was
    briefed by the supervisor as to what had happened. A worker on a metal-cutting machine had
    slipped in a pool of oil, which had leaked from his machine. In trying to stop his fall, he had
    grabbed the machine, which had clamped down on his hand cutting off two fingers of his right
    hand in the process and mangling the hand badly. The supervisor had called the nearest
    hospital for an ambulance as the worker was losing a lot of blood, but the ambulance had taken
    nearly 35 minutes to arrive. In the meantime, the worker continued to bleed and no one knew
    what to do to help him. All the other workers had stopped their machines after the accident as
    they were not in the mood to continue work. The supervisor had not ordered them back to work,
    especially as two of the women in the same section were semi-hysterical.

    Later that morning, Nathan had conducted a preliminary investigation into the accident and had
    reported the incident to the Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH). He knew
    that they would send out an officer to investigate and he wanted to be ready for any questions
    they might ask, He also realized that in the last 12 months, the company had neglected the
    safety of its workers in the interest of ensuring they achieved the production targets set for
    them. He suspected that DOSH might even issue a stop-work order, which would really upset
    the companys chief executive officer, as they had a huge number of cabinets to complete in the
    next month for a customer who had promised them further orders if they could supply according
    to specification and on time. Nathan had prepared a list of some of the issue that could have led
    to the accident. They included the following:
    The worker concerned had been working maximum overtime for the last two months and
    had volunteered for the night-shift because he earned a higher rate of pay when he worked
    at night.
    The worker had only been with the company for three months and, so far had not attended
    any safety training.
    Many of the workers in the cutting section did not wear the gloves provided to them by the
    company. They complained that the material made their skin unbearably itchy.

    Nathan also checked the records of the companys safety and health committee. The last
    meeting was five months ago! He did not look forward to the visit from DOSH officer expected
    any time now.

    Source : Maimunah, A. (2011). Human resource Management: Principles and Practices. Kuala
    Lumpur: Oxford University Press.

    Question : Syarikat Zumaju is not complying with the Occupational Safety and Health Act
    in a number of ways. Identify these and discuss.

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