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DOSH
Department of Occupational Safety & Health

Chemical Management Within The Purview of

USECHH Regulations 2000

Mohd Norhisyam bin Omar

Chemical Management Division

SCOPE

DOSH Introduction & Legal framework

USECHH Regulations 2000
- Introduction
- Requirement under regulations

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Portal address: http://www.mohr.gov.my/

Portal address: http://www.dosh.gov.my/

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In order for Government to provide a safe and healthy work environment, THREE
core business of Department of Occupational Safety & Health (DOSH) as below:

1 Standard setting

2 Enforcement

3 Promotion and publicity

Mining & Quarry

Wholesale &
Retail Trades

Utilities (Gas, Electricity,

Water & Sanitary)

Hotel & Restaurant

Oil and Gas

Agriculture,
Forestry & Public Services
Fishing & Statutory
Authorities

Construction Manufacturing

Transport, Storage &

Communication Finance, Insurance, Real Estate
& Business Services

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CURRENT LEGISLATION
ENFORCED BY DOSH

Law Currently
Enforced

Factories and Occupational

Machinery Safety and Health
Petroleum (Safety
Act 1967 Act, 1994.
Measures) Act, 1984
& &
14 Regulations 7 Regulations

USECHH Regulations 2000

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Regulatory Requirement in Malaysia

i. Section 15(1)(OSHA Act,1994) :-

it shall be the duty of every employer and every
self-employed person to ensure, so far as is
practicable, the safety, health and welfare at work
of his employees

ii. Occupational Safety and Health (Use and

Standard of Exposure of Chemicals
Hazardous to Health) Regulation 2000

INTRODUCTION TO USECHH REGULATIONS

Made under Section 66 of OSHA 1994

To protect safety and health of employee
and other person from being affected by
chemical hazardous to health use at the
place of work
Gazetted on 4th April 2000
Come into force on 4th April 2001

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RATIONALE OF USECHH REGULATIONS

to provide legal framework for the employer

to control use of chemical hazardous to
health
to set workplace exposure standard in order
to protect the health of the employees and
others at the place of work
to promote excellence in management
chemicals hazardous to health

Our challenges?
Do we recognise How many
our chemicals? Do
Doyou know
we know chemicals do we
how to handle have
your chemicals?
our chemicals?

What types of
chemicals do you
have at your
workplace?

What are the Do our control Did the usage

hazards of measures of chemicals
chemicals that sufficient enough posed
exist at our to lowered down significant risk
workplace? the exposure to our health?
level?

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How to Manage Chemical at the

Workplaces

Occupational Safety and Health (Use and Standards

of Exposure of Chemicals Hazardous to Health)
(USECHH) Regulations 2000

Problem No. 1
What types of How many
chemicals do we chemicals do we
have at our have?
workplace?

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What types of
chemical do you
have at your If hazardous
lab/lab-classes?
Hazardous/Not
classified as
hazardous

How many
chemical do
you have
Regulation 5.
Register of chemicals
hazardous to health.

What is Chemical Hazardous to Health?

(a) is listed in Schedule I or II;

(b) possesses any of the properties categorised in Part
B of Schedule I of the Occupational Safety and Health
(Classification, Packaging and Labelling of Hazardous
Chemicals) Regulations 1997;
(c) comes within the definition of "pesticide" under
the Pesticides Act 1974; or
(d) is listed in the First Schedule of the Environmental
Quality (Schedule Wastes) Regulations 2005;

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Register of Chemicals Hazardous to Health

a. Employer shall identify and record in a register all

chemicals hazardous to health used in a place of work
b. Contain of:
i. A list of chemicals hazardous to health used;
ii. Current SDS for each of chemicals hazardous to health
except for pesticides which shall have information as
specified in Schedule III
iii. Average quantity used, produced or stored per
month/per year whichever is applicable for each of CHH
iv. The process and work area where CHH are used
v. Name & address of supplier of each CHH

Problem No. 2

Did the usage of

chemicals posed
significant risk
to our health?

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Did the usage

of chemicals
posed
significant risk
to our health?

Regulation 9
Assessment of risk
to health.

1. Contain 2. Must be carried out by

Assessor (Registered
with DOSH)
Potential Training &
Risk retraining

3. Assessor must furnish

Method & Health
surveillance the employer the report
procedure
of assessment within
one(1) month of
Assessment
Nature of Monitoring Shall be reviewed if completion of
hazard
programme significant change assessment
in work
more than 5 years
Directed by DG
Accidental DOSH
Degree of exposure
exposure control 4. If result of assessment
procedure indicate likely cause
immediate danger-
Health risk
Exposure assessor must inform
control
employer immediately
procedure

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Problem no. 3

Do our control
sufficient enough
to reduce the
exposure level?

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Do our control
sufficient
enough to
lowered down
the exposure *Where an assessment report indicates that
action is required to eliminate or reduce the
level? actual or potential exposure of an employee to
chemicals hazardous to health

Regulation 14
Action to control exposure.

Why need control measure?

reduce the exposure level of employees to

chemicals hazardous to health to the lowest
practicable level, or for those chemicals to
which have been assigned with permissible
exposure limits, to below the limits

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Permissible Exposure Limit

Ceiling Limit TWA 8hrs Maximum

Exposure Limit

Exposure to CHH listed Eight-hour time- 3 x TWA8hrs

in Schedule I not weighted average
exceed at any time airborne concentration

Schedule 1 (sample)

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Schedule 2 (sample)

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Also !

a. As per mention by the

assessment of risk to health

b. If workers expose/likely to expose

to CHH listed in Schedule II,
monitoring interval shall be
repeated in not more than 6
month

Section. 26 USECHH
Reg. 2000

Dusts/Fibers

Gas Mists

Airborne
contains of
Vapors Fume

Smoke Aerosols

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Basic sampling method/principles

Cassette/ Sorbent Impinger/
Filter tube bubble

Collection
media

Sampling
pump

Sampling approach

Area Personal
Sampling Sampling

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Method of Control
i. Elimination
ii. Isolation
iii. Total enclosure i. Engineering Control i. Safety operating procedure
iv. Modification ii. PPE
v. Substitution

Source Path Receiver

Elimination Most
useful
Substitution

Total Enclosure

Isolation

Modification
Engineering
control
SOP

PPE Least
useful

Hierarchy of Control

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Sample of chemical exposure control

Substitution

Sample of chemical exposure control

Engineering Control

Fume Local
cupboard Exhaust
Ventilation

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Engineering Control
(1) Any engineering control equipment shall be -
(a) inspected at an appropriate intervals by the
employer, each interval being no longer than one
month; and
(b) examined and tested for its effectiveness by a
hygiene technician at appropriate intervals, each
interval being no longer than twelve months.

(2) Every engineering control equipment shall be

maintained and operated at all times.

Regulation 17
Engineering control equipment.

Local Exhaust Ventilation

1. Any local exhaust ventilation equipment installed
shall be
(a) designed according to an approved standard by a
registered professional engineer and constructed
according to the design specifications; and
(b) tested by a registered professional engineer after
construction and installation to demonstrate that the
equipment meets the design specifications.

(2) For the purpose of this regulation, "registered

professional engineer" means an engineer registered
under the Registration of Engineers Act 1967 [Act 138].

Regulation 18
Design, construction and commissioning of local exhaust
ventilation equipment.

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Sample of chemical exposure control

Total Enclosure

Spraying Sand
booth blasting

Sample of chemical exposure control

Personal Protective Equipment

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Problem No. 4

Do we recognise
our chemical?

Do we recognise
our chemicals?
Known as tool for hazard communications

Regulation 20
Duty of employer to
ensure labelling.

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Example of Label
Formaldehyde Solution
Product
Ingredient & Concentration: Formaldehyde (CAS. No.:50-00-0) 37%
Identifier Water 63%
Hazard
DANGER Signal
Pictogram Word
BAHAYA
HAZARD STATEMENT PERNYATAAN HAZARD
Causes skin irritation Menyebabkan kerengsaan kulit
Toxic if swallowed, in contact with or if inhaled Maut jika tertelan, terkena kulit atau jika tersedut
Hazard Causes severe skin burns and eye damage Menyebabkan lecuran kulit dan kerosakan mata
Statement May cause an allergic skin reaction yang teruk
Boleh menyebabkan tindak balas alahan kulit
PRECAUTIONARY STATEMENT
Keep away from heat/sparks/open flames/hot surfaces- PERNYATAAN BERJAGA-JAGA
No smoking. Jauhkan dari haba/percikan api/nyalaan
Avoid breathing vapour. terbuka/permukaan panas-Dilarang merokok.
Use only outdoors or in a well-ventilated area. Elakkan daripada menyedut wap.
Precautionary Wash hands thoroughly after handling. Gunakan hanya di luar bangunan atau di dalam kawasan
Statement Obtain special instructions before use. yang dialihudarakan dengan baik.
Do not handle until all safety precautions have been read Basuh tangan bersih-bersih selepas mengendalikan
and understood. bahan.
Dapatkan arahan khas sebelum menggunakan bahan.
Jangan kendalikan bahan sehingga semua langkah
berjaga-jaga keselamatan telah dibaca dan difahami.
Manufacturer: XYZ Co. Limited, 515 Touhy Avenue, Des Plaines, IL 60018
(Pengilang) USA. (24 hr Emergency Tel. No: 800 424-9300 )
Supplier
Identification Supplier: ABCD Kimia Sdn. Bhd., 1126 , Jalan Kg. Attap,
(Pembekal) 50534 Kuala Lumpur (Tel : 03- 273 1234, Fax:03-0000-1234, Emergency: 1-800-1234567 )

Receive from supplier

The container must be

labelled and the label are not:
a. Removed
b. Defaced
c. Modified or;
d. Altered.

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Transfer into
another container

Condition to relabelled
Content not
Content use
use within Chemical
Item normal
within normal
laboratory
workshift
workshift
Product identifier

Supplier
identification
Signal word

Hazard statement

Hazard pictogram

Precautionary
statement

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Problem No. 5
Do we know
how to handle
our chemicals?

What are the

hazards of
chemical that exist
at our workplace?

Do we know
how to handle
our chemicals?

What are the

hazards of
chemicals that
exist at our Regulation 22
workplace?
Information, instruction
and training.

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Information, Instruction & Training

INSTRUCTIONS
Information Training
risk to health created by at least once in 2 years
such exposure
precautions which should If there any change in the
be taken hazard information of
CHH/SOP/control measure
result of any monitoring Each time worker are assign
exposure to new tasks/ work area

collective results of any Methods: films, videos,

health surveillance program workbooks, handouts,
overhead slides, group
discussion and short talks

Health Surveillance
1. Where an assessment indicates that health surveillance is
necessary for the protection of the health of employees exposed
or likely to be exposed to chemicals hazardous to health

2. Consist of medical surveillance component which shall be carried

out by occupational health doctor.

3. If an employee is exposed or likely to be exposed to chemicals

hazardous to health listed in Schedule II, the health surveillance
shall include medical surveillance conducted at intervals of not
more than twelve months or at such shorter intervals as
determined by the occupational health doctor or an occupational
safety and health officer who is also a medical practitioner.

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Medical Removal Protection

Medical PROPOSE OHD
Removal OSH Officer cum Medical
Practitioner
Protection

When exposed to CHH Pregnant /

increase risk of material breastfeeding
impairment to health employee

Employee is no
Not pregnant /
longer has
breastfeeding
detected medical
anymore
condition

Record Keeping

1. Whenever an employer ceases to carry on business and another person

succeeds him, the employer ceasing business shall hand over, and the
successor employer shall retain, all records to be maintained.

2. Whenever an employer ceases to carry on business and no person

succeeds him, the employer shall transmit the records required to be
maintained

3. At the expiration of the retention period for the records required to be

maintained, the employer shall give the Director General at least three
months notice in writing that he intends to dispose of such records, and
he shall transmit those records to the Director General, if requested to do
so within that period

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GUIDELINES UNDER USECHH

1. Guide on Chemical Register
2. Guidelines for the Registration of Assessor,
Hygiene Technician and Occupational Health
Doctor
3. Manual on the Assessment of Health Risk Arising
from the use of Chemicals Hazardous to Health
(CHRA)
4. Guidelines on the Control of Chemical Hazardous
to Health
5. Guidelines on Health Surveillance
6. Guidelines on the Storage of Chemical Hazardous
to Health
7. Guidelines on Mercury Management in Oil and
Gas Industry

CONCLUSION
i. Information is the key to safety and health
ii. Sufficient awareness of hazardous chemicals
and training for safe handling will take us long
way in ensuring better chemical safety
iii. Co-operation and consultation will benefit both
employer and employee and lead to safe and
effective use of chemicals in the workplace
iv. Chemicals in the workplace will not be
dangerous; if used safely
v. Awareness of possible risks, even from ordinary
substances, can help save workers from
sickness, discomfort and loss of productivity

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Thanks

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