Problem Statement Objectives Scope

always been protected. As for Malaysia Government, OSHA law has been applied to industry ever since year 1994.

1.2 Problem Statement

In today’s industry, there still a high rate of accidents and sickness among workers. Even though an OSHA law has been applied, only small changes occur. The lack awareness among employer and employee of the importance of safety health is one of the reasons. This is because they did not understand the hidden factors affecting human life. Hidden factors are a factor that cannot be seen such as disease affecting from bad environment. It takes certain amount of times before the diseases become worse and incurable diseases. In furniture industry, workers are usually exposed to extreme noise and high environment temperature. An extreme noise can cause loss hearing, less communication, and cause an accident. High temperature will lead to heat stress, heat strain, fatigue, nausea or vomiting, headache, heat cramps, heat exhaustion, heat stroke. Therefore, good environment working area should be provided so it gives comfortable working conditions to worker. An ergonomics factors towards material and machining handling also should be provided where it improve the safety and health. As the results of the research study, company organization able to reduce sickness among workers and increase free-accident zone, able to improve workers safety and health, give awareness to worker and organization about the importance of health and safety, and increase organization productivity and quality.

1.3 Objectives

The purposes of this study are: a To identify risk that could occur in furniture industry in selected areas by using Thermal Environment Monitor QUESTemp o 36 and Extech Digital Sound Level Meter. b To relate the noise and thermal comfort risk with Occupational Safety and Health Act OSHA and Factory and Machinery Act FMA c To make relevant recommendations to eliminate or minimize the potential risks.

1.4 Scope

This study discuss about the Occupational Safety Health: Identification of Potential Risk at Furniture Industry. The focuses of the study are on several selected area of workplace that thinks that potentially hazardous to the workers. Furthermore, the data collection will carried out in one hour of three sessions which are morning session 9.00 am to 10.00 am, afternoon session 1.30 pm to 2.30 pm, and evening session 4.00 pm to 5.00 pm. The main focuses of the potential risks of this research are noise level and the environment heat level of the working area. By focusing on these factors, the potential factors that influence safety and health among workers in furniture industry can be identified. There are two potential factors that will research and discuss which are: a Environment Factors i. Noise pollution – Environment noise level. ii. Thermal comfort – Environment heat level. b Safety Factors i. Personal Protective Equipment – Hearing Protection. As for noise level monitoring and thermal comfort level monitoring, only Extech Digital Sound Level Meter Model 407730 and QUESTemp o 36 Thermal Environment Monitor will be used for data collection and data. The results obtain may be applicable to other company especially for furniture industry CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 Introduction