A Preliminary Study on the Implementation of ISO 45001:2018 for Gemas – Johor Bahru Electrified Double Track Project

Abstract

Occupational health and safety (OHS) management are a subset of public
health that focuses on improving workplace health and safety. It examines worker
injury and sickness patterns and makes recommendations for reducing the risks and
hazards they face on the job. This study aims to investigate the level of readiness for
leadership, support and operation are ready to implement for ISO 45001:2018 to
Gemas – Johor Bahru Electrified Double Track Project. For the first objective,
literature review was conducted to investigate ISO 45001:2018 occupational health
and safety management system Certification Programme for construction double
track project. Second objective was to identify the readiness of ISO 45001:2018
occupational health and safety management Certification Programme implementation
for Gemas - Johor Bahru Electrified double track project. In order to achieve the
objectives, a questionnaire was constructed and disseminated to 30 respondents
(n=30). Data collected was analysed using SPSS version 27. The data was reliable
based on Cronbach’s Alpha value which is above 0.7. Descriptive analysis was done,
and it was found that the mean score is high for leadership (mean=4.47), support
(mean=4.54) and operation (mean=4.45). It can be proven that the organization, top
management, staff, and workers are ready to implement the ISO 45001:2018 on this
project. It was also found that the significance correlations of leadership, support, and
planning between ISO 45001:2018 was significance of the 2-tailed value was less
than 0.05 (p-value<0.05). Lastly, master work program for expansion scope of
certification was developed and proposed to the organization.