Other Acts Related To
Safety And Health
FIRE SERVICES ACT 1988
EMPLOYMENT ACT 1955 (REVISED - 1981)
EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969
Petroleum And Gas
FIRE SERVICES ACT 1988
Akta Perkhidmatan Bomba 1988
Objectives:
 To ensure an effective and efficient department
 To protect lives and property
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alteration to building causing difficult to escape in the event
of a fire
overcrowding of public entertainment or gathering places
causing difficult to escape in the event of a fire
any removal or absence of any fire-fighting equipment or
fire safety installation that is required by law
any fire-fighting equipment or fire safety installation within or
outside of building or facility is not in efficient working order;
inadequate means of exit from any part of a building to any
place, whether within or outside the building
any matter that increases the likelihood of a fire or danger to
life/property during the outbreak of a fire, and it hamper the
FSD to discharge its duties in the event of a fire;
Part IV- Water and Fire hydrants
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Section 22: Storage of water in premises for fire fighting
purposes
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Section 23: Notice of works affecting fire hydrants.
 No person, carrying out any works that affect any fire
hydrant or the flow of water
 All fire hydrants shall be in good working condition
 Any works in or around the vicinity of a fire hydrant
affecting access to the fire hydrant shall be deemed to be
works affecting a fire hydrant
Part IV- Water and Fire hydrants
Section 25. Power to fix fire hydrant location plates.
 Director-General will indicate the location of the fire hydrant
plate to be fixed to part of the property which is best suited
to such location.
 Any person who refuses or obstructs or removes or defaces
of any such plate is an offence.
Part IV- Water and Fire hydrants
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Section 26. Concealment and misuse of fire hydrants.
 Any person who covers up, encloses, or conceals any fire
hydrant so as to render its location or tampers with any
fire hydrant, or uses a fire hydrant other than for fire
fighting purposes is an offence.
Part V - Fire Certificate
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Section 28. Requirement of fire certificate.
(1) Every designated premises shall require a fire certificate.
(2) A fire certificate shall be renewable annually.
(3) Subsection (1) shall not apply to premises appropriated
to, and used solely or mainly for, public religious worship, or
premises consisting of or comprised in a house that is
occupied as a single private dwelling:
Part IX - Miscellaneous
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Section 55. Offences in respect of fire alarm.
Any person who damages, conceals, activates or deactivates
any fire alarm without reasonable excuse shall be guilty of an
offence.
EMPLOYMENT ACT 1955 (REVISED - 1981)
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An Act relating to employment
To protect employee employed by an employer
Only applicable to West Malaysia
Part VIII - EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN
Section 34. Prohibition of night work.
 No employer shall require any female employee to work in
 any industrial or agricultural undertaking
 between the hours of ten o'clock in the evening and five
o'clock in the morning
 nor commence work for the day without having had a
period of eleven consecutive hours free from such work:
 exemption is only by the consent of the Director General
Section 35. Prohibition of underground work.
 No female employee shall be employed in any underground
working.
Section 37. Length of eligible period and
entitlement to maternity allowance.
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Give birth after 28 weeks confinement
Entitled to maternity leave for a period of not less than sixty
consecutive days
Not be entitled to any maternity allowance if at the time of her
confinement she has five or more surviving children.
A female employee shall be entitled to receive maternity
allowance for the eligible period from the four months
immediately before her confinement
She has been employed by the employer for a period not
less than ninety days during the nine months immediately
before her confinement.
Daily maternity allowance is RM8.00 / day
Section 60F. Sick leave.
An employee shall, after examination at the expense of the
employer  by a registered medical practitioner duly appointed by the
employer; or
be entitled to paid sick leave,
14 days if the employee has been employed for less
than 2 years;
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18 days if the employee has been employed from 2 to 5
years;
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22 days if the employee has been employed for 5 years
or more; or
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60 days if hospitalization is necessary,
Section 59. Rest day.
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Every employee shall be allowed in each week a rest day of
one whole day
Employee engaged in shift work any continuous period <30
hours is entitled a rest day.
Section 60A. Hours of work.
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An employee shall not be required under his contract of
service to work  (a) more than 5 consecutive hours without a period of
leisure <30 minutes duration;
 (b) more than 8 hours in one day;
 (c) in excess of a spread over period of 10 hours in one
day;
 (d) more than 48 hours in one week:
Section 60E. Annual leave.
An employee shall be entitled to paid annual leave of 8 days for every 12 months of continuous service with the
same employer if he has been employed by that employer for
a period <2 years;
 12 days for every 12 months of continuous service with the
same employer if he has been employed by that employer for
a period of >2 years but <5 years; and
 16 days for every 12 months of continuous service with the
same employer if he has been employed by that employer for
a period >5 years,
Section 60. Work on rest day.
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Work which by reason of its nature requires to be carried on
continuously or continually by two or more shifts. Employee
should be paid accordingly as prescribed.
Due to other reasons:
 Accident
 Public survival and importance
 Specialised work e.g. type of plant or machine
 Defence and security of the nation
 Unusual work interference
 For Malaysian/Nation economic importance
EMPLOYEES' SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1969
Akta Keselamatan Sosial Pekerja 1969
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SOCSO/PERKESO
 Social Safety Organisation
 Pertubuhan Keselamatan Sosial
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Objectives
 to provide social security in certain contingencies
 to make provision for certain other matters in relation
thereto
Categories of person not protected
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Any person whose wages exceed three thousand ringgit a
month:
Any person whose employment is of casual nature
A domestic servant
The spouse or spouses of the principal employer or the
immediate employer
Any member of the Malaysian Armed
Any police officer
Any person detained in any prison
Section 24. Accidents while travelling.
(1) An accident happening while  (a) travelling on a route between his place of residence or
stay and his place of work;
 (b) travelling on a journey made for any reason which is
directly connected to his employment; or
 (c) travelling on a journey between his place of work and the
place where he takes his meal during any authorized recess.
(2) If the accident under subsection (1) occurs during any
interruption of, or deviation from, the insured person's journey
made for any of the purposes stipulated in the same
subsection, the accident shall not be deemed to arise out of
and in the course of his employment.
Section 25. Accidents happening while meeting
emergency.
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An accident happening while taking steps to rescue, assist,
help or protect persons who are, or are thought to be or
possibly to be, injured or imperiled/endanger, or to
avert/avoid or minimize damage to property.
Section 28. Occupational diseases.
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Any occupation disease as described in the Fifth Schedule
Disease or injury within sixty months after ceasing to be so
employed
PETROLEUM (SAFETY MEASURES) ACT 1984
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Main section related to safety:
 Transportation
 Storage
 Use of petroleum
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GAS SUPPLY ACT 1995
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Control of pipe, installation and gas supply equipment in
relation to safety of the public
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PART II - TRANSPORTATION OF PETROLEUM BY
ROAD AND RAILWAY
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Section 3. Permitted conveyance of petroleum by road or
railway.
Section 4. Power of Minister to make regulations.
Section 5. Employees to be informed of the provisions of the
Act and the regulations; related offences.
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PART III - TRANSPORTATION OF PETROLEUM
BY WATER
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Section 6. Permitted loading, unloading and discharging of petroleum.
Section 7. Entry into ports of vessels carrying petroleum.
Section 8. Notification to Inspector of vessel coming into port.
Section 9. Permission of port officer to take petroleum from vessel.
Section 10. Unloading or discharging of petroleum.
Section 10A. Restriction on loading, unloading and discharging, of
petroleum between sunset and sunrise.
Section 11. Direction of the Port Officer in respect of vessels carrying
petroleum.
Section 12. Loading or carriage of petroleum.
Section 13. Remaining in any port, etc. without permission.
Section 14. Placing on any quay, bank, etc. any petroleum.
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PART IV - TRANSPORTATION OF PETROLEUM
BY AIR
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Section 15. Transportation of petroleum by air not permitted.
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PART V - TRANSPORTATION OF PETROLEUM BY
PIPELINES
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Section 16. Authorisation of pipeline works.
Section 17. Emergency pipeline works.
Section 18. Offences relating to unauthorised pipeline works.
Section 18A. Part V not applicable to supply of gas by
pipelines.
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PART VI - STORAGE AND HANDLING OF
PETROLEUM
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Section 19. Petroleum storage and petroleum handling licence.
Section 20. Labelling of containers or receptacles containing petroleum.
Section 21. Power of Minister to make regulations in special
circumstances.
Section 22. Notice of accident involving petroleum.
Section 23. Inquiry into accidents involving petroleum.
Section 24. Insulting persons conducting inquiry.
Section 25. Protection agent suits for persons conducting inquiry.
Section 26. Evidence not admissible in civil or criminal proceedings.
Section 27. Exempted categories of petroleum.
Section 27A. Part VI not applicable to licensee under Gas Supply Act
1992.
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