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Chapter 2The Occupational Health and Safety Regulations

Contents2.1 The management on OSH regulations by Ministry of Labor

2.2 The details of OSH regulations and how in implement


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The progression of the management on OSH regulations .

- There was the outbreak of the manganese poisoning in the dry

battery manufacturing about 41 workers were killed in 2507.

-In 2515 there was a revolution decree 103 dated 16 march 2515

announced the Safety protection regulation for workers health.

-In 2519 the ministry of interior launched many OSH regulations.


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-In B.E 2525 the government considered that the accidents form

work were serous then the government cooperative with USAID

and ILO donate the fund to established the office of National

Institute for Improvement of Working Conditions and

Environment to give the technical support on OSH.

- In B.E 2528 the ministry of interior launched the ministerial of

interior required the employer in the enterprises with more than

100 employee shall provide at least 1 safety officer to manage

OSH program for the enterprise.


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2. Scope of OSHE ACT.

The OSHE ACT B.E 2554 enforce to all types of enterprises that

having employee one or more.

N.B There are exceptions on this regulation. It does not enforce in

central government services, provincial government services and

local government services.


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The Ministerial Regulation, Specification of Occupational Safety, Hygiene

and Environment Management Standards on Radiation B.E.2547.

Aim

To be a guideline for preventing the workers from the dangerof the ionizing radiation in the workplace.

Scope and enforcementAll enterprises that have or produce the source of radiation such as

alpha ray, beta ray, electron particle proton particle and neutron

particle


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(6) Provide at least one employee to work in this area all the time when the radiation

operated. This employee should graduate at lease bachelor degree or equivalent on

science and has background on radiation hazard protection 3 credits or has been trained

and passed on radiation protection course at Office of Atomic Energy for Peace, Ministry

of Science and Technology or other institute that ministry of labour approve.(7) Submit the name and data of radiation control operators to the government

(8) Provide sink and shower, locker, washing machine for the operators to clean

themselves, their equipments, tools and dresses. And shall provide the specific waste

containers for keeping the radiation contaminated dresses and tools

(9) Establish the emergency plan to protect and control the radiation leak and report

to the government


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2. The responsibilities on providing the warning sign, label and alarm signal

(1) Provide the warning sign and install in the opened area that can be seen easily at

area that will exposed to radiation dust or at the radiation material storage. The warning

sign shall be recommend by the government.

(2) Attach the label and warning on each radiation container or packaging follow

the government recommend.

(3) Post the prohibited sign for not handle the contaminated tools or materials out

from working area.

(4) Install the red rotary lamp at the place that can easily see to warn the high

radiation area.

(5) Provide the emergency warning system to warn the employee in case of

emergency to evacuate to the safe place.


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3. The responsibilities on the reporting system

(1) In case of the generator, equipment, tools and machine that generate

The ionizing radiation was damage, destroy, broken or lost that will cause the radiation

leakage, pouring, dropping or dispersing, loose; fire, radiation harm or disaster. These

will cause the employee to get an accident, illness or death. In this case the employer

shall report to the government immediately.

(2) In case of death, illness, accident or work related disease from ioninzing

radiation occurs the employers shall report to government within 15 days.

(3) Report the activities of radiation operations to the government every six month .


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4. The responsibilities on providing the personal protective equipments and

other duties

(1) Provide the approved personal protective equipments and other duties.

(2) Train the operator who shall work with the radiation to know, understand the

hazard and preventive measure about radiation before starting operation. The course

shall be approved by government.(3) Set the guideline, procedure, instruction and regulation on radiation safety

in Thai and post it at the employee working place.

(4) Provide medical checkup annually for each operator who exposed to the

radiation and keep the result for inspection by government officers. In case of finding

something mistake or illness from work to the worker, employer shall immediately

give the medication and rotate this operator to the new job temporally upon the doctor

opinion or as the management consideration


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(6) Providing a trained employee as a buddy with full rescue equipment when work

in confined space.

(7) Providing the personal protective equipment, the proper rescue or assist

equipment follow the government requirement.

(8) Closing, protecting or any action to prevent harmful material from the outside

enter to the confined area while the workers are working.

(9) Providing the suitable walkway or route for entry and exit.

(10) Installing the prohibited sign No smoking at the confined space entrance.

(11) Providing the explosion proof electrical equipment to work in confined area.

(12) Providing the portable fire extinguishers.

(13) Prohibiting the workers to make some heat or flame and use the evaporate

material, toxic substance or flammable substances in the confined area except the safety

measurement provided.


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2. Every confined space, should be provided :

(1) A supervisor who passed the confined space safety training.

(2) A buddy or more who passed the confined space safety training.

(3) Confined space workers should have the permit to work and could not work

on many tasks in the confined area in the same time.


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The details of the regulation

1. The employer that request the workers to work in the risk potential areas shall

manage the safety at workplace as the following

1.1 Every employee shall get the health examination by the physician

(1) Who has a certificate of occupational medicine or

(2) Pass the occupational medicine training course

(3) Has a property as required by law

1.2 Provide a medical check up to the employees as the following items

(1) First check up within 30 days since the employee start to work

(2) Annual check up

(3) In case of check up requirement for some task or exposed, the check up should

be provided follow those schedule

(4) In case of job rotation and that job or task is difference from present job or task.

The employer shall provide a check up repeat within 30 days since rotation


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1.3 In case of 3 days absent from work because of injured or illness. The employer shall

consult the treatment doctor or enterprise doctor or provide health check up prior sent the

worker back to work.

1.4 Providing a check up record book for each worker follow the government requirement.

This book should be recorded every time when providing the check up activities.

1.5 Keeping the annual check up record of termination employment of each employee at

least 2 years or upon the prosecution on violation of employer or the case of disease or healt

problem. The employer shall keep those records until the final sentence of court. And the

employer shall not bring the employee health data to be worth them without suitable reasons.

1.6 Reporting health check up to the workers as the following

(1) Every abnormal case shall be reported to employee within 3 days since known the

result report.

(2) Every normal case shall be reported to employee within 7 days since known the

result report.


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1.7 Providing the physical treatment to the abnormal case or sick employees immediately

and investigate the condition that cause the illness or abnormal for protection purposes.

1.8 The employer shall send report of the abnormal or illness case and the result of

treatment, protection measurement to the government follow the requirement with in 30

days since known that abnormal or illness.

1.9 Rotating this employee to another job if employee has medical evidence saying that

they can not work in the present duty.

1.10 The employer shall give the health check up record book of exposed employee back

to them when termination.

2 The responsibilities of doctor after providing a medical check up services.

2.1 Have to record all detail about the result of check up, comment from doctor about

the health of workers that may impact or obstruct to work.

2.2 Have to give a comment and signature on that check up day.


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1.3 Noise

(1) The employer should control the level of noise not over the average

standard at working hour.

(2) The employer shall stop the employee not to work in the area that noise

level is over 140 dB (A).

(3) If there is the average of noise level in workplace in the 8 working hourin higher than 85 dB (A). The employer should provide the noise conservation

program as the government recommend.

(4) In the working areas that has the over noise level standard, the

employer shall provide the warning sigh to wear the personal protective

equipment.


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The employers shall

1. Set up the work instruction and safety operation procedure and provide theeducating and training to ensure that the employee will work safely. This is

including the direct sub contactors and indirect sub contactor that work in the

workplace.

2. All new workers and rotated workers to new task that will harm more than

the previous task . The employers should provide the training on OSHE and

instruction and procedure to employees before let them start to work.

3. All safety measures and concerning information at the new workplace should

be inform to the new assigned workers.

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4. The employer in the enterprises at the categories 1-5 who employ at least 2

employees and at the categories 6-14 who employ at least 20 employees shall

nominate the employees who are orwere the safety officer at supervisory level in

the former law to be trained as the new safety officer at supervisory level within

180 days since appointment to be the supervisor.

5. The employer in the enterprises at the categories 1-5 who employ at least 2

employees and at the categories 6-14 who employ at least 20 employees shall

nominate the employees who are or were the safety officer at executive level in the

former law to be trained as the new safety officer at executive level within 180 days

since appointment to be the executives.6. The employer in the enterprises at the categories 2-5 who employ 20-49

employees shall nominate the employee who is or was the safety officer at operator

level in the former law to be trained as the new safety officer at technical level

within 180 days since employ the 20 employees up.


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Th bl h h d il f h OSHE i i i h i


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The table shown the details of the OSHE committee requirement in each enterprise

No. of No. of OSHE OSHE chairman Employer Employee

employee

Committee

members

Employer or

representative representative representative Secretary

at executive level

50-99 5 1 1 2 1 (T)

100-499 7 1 2 3 1(P)

500 or

more 11 1 4 5 1(P)


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Installing circuit breaker andreflection sign posted on thetransformer and electrical circuit.

Fire prevention plan, fireextinguishers ,fire escape way (notless than 1.10 meters), constructionbuilding higher than 15 meters orconstruction area more than 2000square meters have to install firealarm system.

Any construction area which havedigging, hole making more than 2meter depth required strictly controlby engineer

Piling work


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Piling work

1. Specify the construction area

2. Perform work according to the specification of pile driver, If there is no such

specification, the engineer must specify it in written

3. Inspect all equipment prior to piling by recording date and time of inspection

and the results. Such record will be inspected again by officers

4. Light must be provided as standard in case of piling at night time

5. The steel wire must be left in its roll not less than 2 rounds

6. Using of steel wire and pulley must be done according to standard

7. Work must be supervised by supervisor under the control of engineer. This

work also required person who gives signal and control piling

8. The ground that supports the pile driver must be firm enough


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The Ministerial Regulation on Working with Machines, Derricks

and Boilers B.E.2552 (A.D.2009).

Aim

- To control and prevent hazard to all employees who work with these

equipment.

Scope and enforcement

- To enforce all types of workplace that has one or more employee where

work is operated by these equipment.


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Details of the regulation

1. Specified safety issues while working with machine as followed

1.1 All machines that are operated by electricity shall be grounded toprevent short circuit current

1.2 Electric wire connected machine shall be run underground or from

overhead and shall be encased in the duct

1.3 Manual pressing machine shall have guard or use accessory instead

of hand

1.4 Foot pedal pressing machine shall have foot rest and cover to

protect unintentional stepping on.

1.5 Electrical pressing or cutting machine fed by hand shall have 2

switches


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Electricity

Aim

- To control any hazard occurred from electricity such as electrical

equipment, electric wring, electricity volume used, life electrical lines,

prevention of over-load electricity, ground line, lighting rod and other

preventive equipment for working with electrical power

Scope of law and its enforcement

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- Electric wiring and electrical equipment must not break down

- Maintain a distance as specified if work in the area where there is a electric power

except

* wear PPE * have insulator * have specific technique to operate work

- Type of electric wire must be suitable for each work and complied with standard

- Safety cut shall be fixed at the point where electric wires are in difference size and

between meter and electric wire in the building

- Soft cable line of portable electrical equipment must not have any connection or

junction

- Install enough sockets for working

- Installation of transformer of over 800 volts shall comply with the law

- Every switch on the panel shall be set in order to access conveniently and sturdy

- All electrical equipment covered with metal shall be grounded

- Have prevention methods for stoke of lighting at chimney

- Provide PPE for employees who work with electric power of over 50 volts


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Scaffolding


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Scaffolding

Aim

- To control the construction and the use scaffolding safety according to its

standard, constructing method, using of scaffolding including other construction

safety equipment.


- To enforce constructing work

Not enforce

1. Construction of building that is made of wood at the height not over 7m.

2. Repairing and decorating work that requires not more than 2 workers

3. Installing of water supply system, electrical system or others that requires not

mote than 2 workers


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Work relating to Construction Area.

Aim

- To prevent workers and irrelevant person from danger by specifying the

construction and dangerous area.


To enforce general construction work except construction of residential

building whose height is not exceed 7 m.


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Falling from the Height, Material Splashes, Falling Down and


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Falling from the Height, Material Splashes, Falling Down and

Collapses .

Aim- To prevent workers from falling down from high place such as from the roof,

external part of terrace, any open passages or anywhere that workers shall work alone

- To prevent workers from falling down from any space

- To prevent workers from falling down into some place such as pond, tank

- To prevent deteriorate of stone, soil, sand or other materials from high place such as

working in the main passages, tunnel, cave, pond including construction and throwing

of materials high place


- To enforce every type of workplace with one or more workers


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- To set up the measure in preventing and controlling the fire

1. Set up safety condition to the building by separating the building that may

easily cause explosion from others. Specify type of building and number of

store that workers can work as well as the fire escape. Exit way of each floor

must not less than 2 ways and it shall have a sign to show a fire escape way

with a size not less than 1.5 m. Escape ladder must be fire-proof and can

prevent from smoke. The least exit way must be located at safety point such

as road, or yard.

2. Provide fire extinguisher and water at specified capacity. Size and type,

installation and its distance shall be provided according to the law.

3. Specify details on storage, quantify, handling method and control of

inflammable substances that are kept inside and outside building.


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Announcement on high

severity of accident reportform 2014

Aim: To set up thereport form standards

Scope: To use in all

enterprises


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Announcement on warning

sign, safety sign andproclamation of employers

and employees right.

Aim: To publish in theworkplaces.

Scope: To enforce to allenterprises

( come into effective on 11 nov2011)

Announcement on


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Announcement on

criteria, means and

condition for safety

training courses

Aim: To strengthen on OHSEmanagement

Scope: To enforce to allenterprises

( come into effects on 30 march 2012 )


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P hibit th l t i th l h i th d 18 ld t k


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Prohibit the employer to assign the employee who is the age under 18 years old to work as

the following

1. The tasks that related to heat, cool vibration and noise such as

1.1 Tasks having temperature in the working area is over 45 degree Celsius

1.2 Task in the Cool room to produce or preserve food by extreme cool

1.3 Task that use the penetrate or punch tools

1.4 Task having continuous noise level over 85 decibel (A) in 8 working hours

2. The tasks that related to the hazardous chemical, hazardous materials, explosive

materials or inflammable materials as the following

2.1 Tasks in producing or transporting the carcinogen materials

2.2 Task that related to cyanide materials

2.3 Task in producing or carrying the rocket, fire flower, or explosive materials

2.4 Task in exploration, drilling, digging, refinery, or petroleum or gas transport or

unload except task in the petroleum or gas service station


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The Ministerial Regulation No.12 B.E. 2541 (1996).

Aim

To promote safety for the land transport operator

Scope and enforcement

Enforce all enterprise that has the land transportation



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1. The employer shall assign the work of driving to employee not over 8

hours a day

2. Not allow the employee to work overtime, in case accepted not allow over 2 hours

per day except in case of emergency, accident or traffic problem

3. The driver shall have 1 hour rest at every 4 continuous hours driving or rest at

least 20 minutes in each period but totally shall not less than 1 hour rest per day4. Not allow next driving of each driver before having 10 hours rest after last driving

finished

5. When employee drives for overtime in a week day or week end, the employer shall

pay the compensate money equal to work rate that must be paid except to make

an agreement with the driver to pay in term of overtime rate


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The employer shall assign the employee to lift, carry by hand, arm, shoulder

or head, pull or push the heavy things not over this limitation for each

employee as the following

1. 20 kilogram for the girl ageing from 15 years old but less than 18

years old

2. 25 kilogram for the boy ageing from 15 years old but less than 18

years old

3. 25 kilogram for the female

4. 55 kilogram for the maleIn case of the weight is over the limitation, the employer shall provide

facilitating tools or helping devices


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Crane safety

5. Kor Por 1 The inspection form of stationary crane Employer keep this form and ready for

inspected by the mechanical engineer

quarterly inspection or request from inspector

6. Kor Por 2 The inspection form of mobile crane Employer keep it and ready for Labor

inspected by the mechanical engineer

quarterly inspector to check or request

Fire protection and


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prevention in workplace

8. Fire protection and Employer shall establish the Fire Protection Employer keep it and ready for Labor

prevention plan and prevention plan with consist of 7 major inspector to check or request

plan those are inspection, training, campaign,

fire fighting, fire evacuation, fire rescue,

and rehabilitation

9. Form of Fire fighting Employer shall provide the fire fighting drill Report the result of the drill within 30

drill and fire evacuation and fire evacuation drill at least annually. days when complete the exercise

drill report In case of employer organize the drill by

themselves shall submit the drill plan to the

government prior drill at last 30 days


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Incase of death, injury, accident or Report to the government within 15


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disease related to radiation from the days since the employee died or

above cause or other Injured from the radiation

28. Physical Health Radiation operators health check up Employer files and ready for the

Check report annually Officer to inspect


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Ministerial on guideline and

methodology of health examination:

29. Record of employees Record all the employees health data Employer files and ready for the

health check up and record every time officer to inspect

Ministerial on OSH specification on

diving

30. Form to report diving Employer shall report the diving Employer shall submit or inform

workplace or changed workplace when assigns the employees

to the government prior the

diving operation not less than

workplace

diving at depth from 10 feet but not

over 7 days

300 feet


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Ministerial on OSH

specification on heat light

and noise

31. Management document Employer shall establish the system to Employer files and ready for the

on selection, use, hygiene, select, use, hygiene, training and rule of officer to inspect

training and rule of personal PPE

Protective equipment

for employee

32. Report on result of Employer shall report the result of working Keep in the company and ready for

heat, light and noise condition on heat, light and noise by the officer to inspect and send the copy

monitoring in workplace registered safety officer at professional level or to the government within 30 days

related or equivalent When the monitoring finished


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38. The copy of document Employer send the copy of Submit to government within 15 days when appointed

of OSH committee name list of OSH committee or changed


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and their responsibilities and their responsibilities

when set up or change the If the enterprise has safety officer at high technician

committee level or professional level. Employer shall send the

copy of name list and responsibilities of committee

and safety officer at high technician level or professional

level with the report of OSH activities and action of the

committee

Keep it at least 2 years and ready for inspectors to

investigate

39. The document of Employers shall make the File of those documents have to keep for 2 years since meeting,

meeting report or copy of meeting report of action and ready to inspect by officer

operating report of operating report of

OSH committee and OSH committee and operating

operating report of of OSH function

OSH function


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1. Chapter 3: Occupational Safety,Health and Environment Committee

( Section 24 - 34).

2. Chapter 4: Control, Supervision

and Administration (Section 32 34).


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