A lot of companies are becoming aware of OSHE in Malaysia and those high risk and corporate responsible organizations have employed Safety officer to assist and advise them related to safety for their companies, contractors as well as customers. Safety officers are more critical in companies dealing with chemical, petroleum, construction, working at high area and involving heavy machinery. It's good if you can have some working experience before you attend certification course as safety officer at Nisoh (National Institute of Occupational Safety & Health). Once certified, the pay is good. However the pay comes with high responsibilities too. You have to ensure the safety of the employees, vendors as well as customers dealing with your organization. The Act is self regulated, but once there's fatal accident, then your organization is at risk of not only summon and receiving stop work instruction, but also imprisonment. Safety officer needs to analyze the risks within his or her organization, develop safety policy and statement, review existing process & procedures, recommend improvement etc related to safety. I had the opportunity to set up Safety Unit when I was responsible for Northern Region. I set up Safety committee at sates as well as building level (based on risks). I also did safety briefings, safety visits and safety audits and coordinated Safety committee meetings every quarter. When i joined another subsidiary, I assisted the company to get safety passport through collaboration with Niosh for all of our technical staff and vendors, installers.
It's such a great experience...even though I didn't go for my Safety officer certification program. The experience also helped me when I had to do renovation for office space, monitoring room as well as Datacentre in 2008. I'm currently in the midst of introducing and implementing safety policy for our offices in USA, UK, Hong Kong as well as Singapore.
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