Occupational Health & Safety

This is a core elective subject, it is quite interesting because our lecturer will talk about safety in construction sites. We will learn why the risk happen, how to prevent and how to manage the safety in construction site. Even though this subject is not very deep but it is very important because it is related to people's life. If some serious accidents happen in construction site, it might cause death. We need to be really careful about the safety in construction site. Our lecturer also got talk about some safety laws that can protect employee's privilege. Employer, contractors and designer have the responsibility to make the construction site is safe enough to let the employees to work inside. I have 5 members in my assignment group, they are Wen Qi, Vay, Hayley and Lejun. We make a questionnaire and send it to construction company. Our assignment is to do a research based on what are the risk assessment of the construction company. After we receive their reply, we need to evaluate the data and found out which accident are the most commonly happen in their construction sites in Malaysia. We will investigate why the risk happen and how to prevent it. We need to know how serious is the accident when it happens and the consequences. This subject is really useful for people who are related to construction site.