SYNOPSIS

Businesses are no more likely to achieve business goals (3P-Profit, Profit, Profit) without a strategic OSH business process than are organizations likely to achieve new cultural capabilities. When combined, the business strategy and leadership strategy can work simultaneously to develop new core capabilities necessary for the organization’s future. We make the case that it is leadership, as a purposeful collection of like-minded people that can demonstrate and participate in the new ways of doing and being that evolves the OSH culture and enables different business outcomes.
A leadership in OSH Management can guide the organizations to establish measures to prevent and control hazards and risks, or well-known hazards and risks such as those arising from dangerous substances, machinery and tools and manual handling as well as for emerging issues, such as biological hazards, psychosocial hazards and muscular-skeletal disorders. Leaders can have a positive influence on encouraging and supporting safe and healthy behaviour amongst employees (O'Dea & Flin, 2001). Improving the safety behaviour of employees is an ambitious leadership goal. Centrally, it depends upon establishing a strategic prevention culture, in order to build a labour force that is intrinsically motivated about OSH Management.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Pn. Norwani Ahmat has more than 13 years experiences in Safety, Health and Environment (SHE). She was graduated from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia on 1999 with Degree in Chemical and Process Engineering.  She has served several public listed companies, namely Faber Group Berhad, Nestle Manufacturing (M) Sdn Bhd, MMC Gamuda (PDP) KVMRT and Proton Holdings Berhad as Senior SHE Manager and Head of Department. She obtained her certified from International Training Practitioner (CIPD), UK, Certified Safety & Health Officer (SHO), Certified CIDB Assessor and member of Majlis Keselamatan Jalanraya Negeri Selangor (MKJR). Pn. Norwani also is the author of “I am OSH Practitioner” and was published in July 2016.