Introduction

The Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is in the process of gathering public comments of the draft Guidelines on Monitoring of Airborne Chemical Hazardous to Health 202X.

The proposed guideline is to supplement the requirement of regulation 26 of the Occupational Safety and Health (Use and Standards of Exposure of Chemicals Hazardous to Health) Regulations 2000.

This proposed guideline is to provide guidance on conducting monitoring of airborne CHTH at the workplace. The guideline describes on the steps of air monitoring, monitoring methodology, sampling technique, monitoring strategy, sample management, sampling results management & interpretation and report writing.

Chemical exposure monitoring is used to measure the level of exposure of workers to chemicals hazardous to health (CHTH) and to evaluate adequacy of existing control equipment.

This IEM member dialogue is to gather engineering input and feedback to DOSH on this draft guidelines.


MODERATOR

Ir. Kim Kek Seong is a Technical Manager of Enovate PLT dealing with various innovative engineering solutions. He has more than 18 years of hands-on experience in various mechanical and chemical process engineering improvements as well as personal safety and industrial hygiene management. He graduated from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, UTM, with a B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering. He is a P.Eng in Chemical Engineering, Fellow Member of IEM, and Honorary Member of AFEO. He currently is an active committee member in the IEM, in Membership Application Board (MAB), Disaster Risk Reduction Advisory Board (DRRAB), Member of Training Board (TB) as well as various Sub-Committees and boards.


FACILITATOR

Ir. Loo Chee Kin is the chairman of IEM Disaster Risk Reduction Advisory Board


A copy of the draft can be downloaded at HERE