Occupational Medicine & Health Affairs
Open Access

Abstract

Work related illnesses or occupational diseases which caused by risks of psychosocial are relatively new and growing in workplace all over the world. Many factors contribute to this emerging risk. It is indirectly link to the way work and plant is designed, organized and managed by the organization. The impact of the situation not only affects the employees but also to the social context of work. As a result, the level of stress at the workplace increase and can lead toward serious deterioration of mental and physical health. Safe workplace design is a way to prevent accident and disease from happening. It will consider hazards and risks as early as possible in the planning and design or redesign process and preparing the control measures before it arrive at workers. There were evidence showed that accident or ill health at workplace could be prevented if designer do more but unfortunately they failed to take opportunity to do so. A work related illnesses or occupational diseases are any chronic physical or mental ailments that occur as a result of work or occupational activity. It was typically identified when shown prevalently in a given body of workers than in the general population, or in other worker populations. Under the law of occupational safety and health in many jurisdictions, there was a presumption that safe and healthy workplace design will contribute to prevention of accidents, injuries, illnesses and diseases. This was indirectly enhanced by the workers of safety performance and safety and health outcome.

Biography

Rabaayah Daud has completed her MSc in Human Resource at Universiti Putra Malaysia and is pursuing PhD in Industrial Safety Management at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. She is a Deputy Director at Petroleum Division, Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Ministry of Human Resources, Malaysia. She is a Member of Malaysian Society of Occupational Safety and Health.

Email: rabaayahdaud@siswa.ukm.edu.my