← Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994

Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 s 28

s 28 Medical surveillance

(1) Where it appears to the Minister that in any of the industries or class or description of industries— (a) cases of illness have occurred which he has reason to believe may be due to the nature of the process or other conditions of work; (b) by reason of changes in any process or in the substances used in any process or, by reason of the introduction of any new process or new substance for use in a process, there may be risk of injury to the health of persons employed in the process; (c) persons below the age of sixteen years are or are about to be employed in work which may cause risk of injury to their health; or (d) there may be risk of injury to the health of persons employed in any of the occupations specified in the Third Schedule, or from any substance or material brought to the industries to be used or handled therein or from any change in the conditions in the industries, he may make regulations requiring such reasonable arrangements as may be specified in the regulations to be made for the medical surveillance and medical examination, not including medical treatment of a preventive character, of the persons or any class of persons employed in the industries or class or description of industries. (2) Regulations made under this section may require the medical surveillance to be carried out by persons registered with the Director General, and may prescribe the qualifications and other conditions which are to be satisfied in order to be registered for the purpose of this section. (3) A person who contravenes the provisions of this section or any regulation made thereunder shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.

Malay text (authoritative)

Perkhidmatan kesihatan pekerjaan

(1) Jika Menteri mendapati bahawa dalam mana-mana tempat kerja atau kelas atau jenis tempat kerja— (a) kes-kes penyakit telah terjadi yang dia mempunyai sebab untuk percaya mungkin disebabkan oleh jenis proses atau keadaan lain kerja; (b) oleh sebab perubahan dalam mana-mana proses atau dalam bahan yang digunakan dalam mana-mana proses atau, oleh sebab pengenalan apa-apa proses baru atau bahan baru bagi kegunaan dalam sesuatu proses, mungkin terdapat risiko kesan buruk kepada kesihatan orang-orang yang diambil kerja dalam proses itu; atau (c) (Dipotong oleh Akta A1648); (d) mungkin terdapat risiko kesan buruk kepada kesihatan orang-orang yang diambil kerja dalam mana-mana pekerjaan yang dinyatakan dalam Jadual Ketiga, atau daripada apa-apa bahan atau benda yang dibawa ke tempat kerja itu untuk digunakan atau dikendalikan dalamnya atau daripada apa-apa perubahan keadaan dalam tempat kerja itu, dia boleh membuat peraturan-peraturan menghendaki perkiraan bagi perkhidmatan kesihatan pekerjaan. (2) (Dipotong oleh Akta A1648). (3) (Dipotong oleh Akta A1648).

Read this section in the full act → · Open Part VII →

Find Act 514 on lom.agc.gov.my ↗

Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

What to look at next

Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994, full textChapter navigation and full text, so you can read this section in contextMalaysia legislation Malaysia Acts by type and yearGrouped by instrument type and year of enactment, so you can find others of the same kindBrowse by type and year Part VII — Safety and health organizations — read this in contextThe surrounding text of the act in order, so you can see what comes before and afterChapters and sections