Occupational Safety, Health and Environmental Regulation
Domain focus
This domain tests how a driller applies Malaysian occupational safety, health and environmental law to daily rig work: duties, risk assessment, controls, and environmental reporting. Expect questions on Act 514, FMA 1967, EQA 1974, HIRARC, and the hierarchy of controls.
Core rules
- Employers must ensure so far as is practicable the safety, health and welfare of employees and others affected; employees must take reasonable care and cooperate.
- FMA 1967 adds machinery, pressure-vessel, and lifting-equipment duties; DOSH enforces. EQA 1974 controls pollution, scheduled waste, and spills; DOE enforces.
- Use HIRARC: identify hazards, assess risk, apply controls, record, review. Apply elimination, substitution, engineering, administrative controls before PPE.
- Report incidents, dangerous occurrences, and environmental spills promptly; preserve the scene and evidence.
- Control dust, noise, and waste; segregate scheduled waste; use spill kits; never discharge to drains or ground.
Worked example
A driller sees a missing guard on a rotating drive chain. The correct reasoning is: the guard is an engineering control, so stop the task, isolate and lock out the drive, report the defect, and do not restart until the guard is replaced and function-checked. PPE alone is not a substitute.
Traps
Treating PPE as the first control; assuming only the supervisor has legal duties; ignoring environmental spill reporting because the volume seems small; restarting guarded equipment after a verbal assurance without a recorded check.