@article{farouk2011knowledge,
  title = {Knowledge Management to Promote Occupational Safety and Health at the Malaysian Manufacturing Workplace: Reposed in Occupational Safety and Health Committees?},
  author = {Ummu Kolsome Farouk and Stanley Richardson and Arul Jeganathan Solucis Santhapparaj},
  year = 2011,
  url = {https://ibimapublishing.com/articles/JOKM/2011/663054/},
  journal = {Journal of Organizational Knowledge Management},
  volume = 2011 (2011),
  pages = 13,
  doi = 10.5171/2011.663054,
  abstract = {Occupational safety and health committees (OSHCs) have been mandated in Malaysian workplaces regardless of type by section 30 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 (OSHA 1994).  Workplaces with 40 or more employees must establish OSHCs.  They are a form of employee involvement in the area of workplace safety and health.  The activities of OSHCs are regulated by the Occupational Safety and Health (Safety and Health Committee) Regulations 1996 (OSHCR 1996).  To determine whether these activities embrace the twin pillars of knowledge sharing and knowledge creation that form the foundation of  knowledge management,  the Knowledge Creation Model for ISO 9001:2000 conceptualized by Lin and Wu (2005) is used in this study.  An application of the said model proves that the aforesaid regulated activities of OSHCs are linked to knowledgeable quality information and could, via appropriate modes of knowledge conversion that was dependent upon varied contextual situations, enable the creation of four types of knowledge assets; namely, routine, experiential, systemic or conceptual.   To determine the types of OSHC activities that have not been extensively tapped in pursuit of knowledge creation, survey data from 231 Malaysian manufacturing companies was used.  The empirical findings indicate that the following activities with knowledge creation potential are relatively lagging in comparison to the other activities: access to reports provided by external experts, access to safety audits, collecting of general information on safety and health issues, assist employer in safety and health competition, carrying out studies on safety and health at the workplace, access to internal and external experts in determining safety and health issues.  
 },
  keywords = {occupational safety and health committees, committee scope, committee function, self-regulation, knowledge creation model, manufacturing companies},
  note = Article ID: 663054
}