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This Note to Industry (NTI) serves as a notice to inform relevant stakeholders, in particular employers and occupiers, of the publication of a self-assessment checklist by SHENA for work at height (WAH). SHENA has developed a Self-Assessment Checklist for work at height (WAH) intended for use by all relevant workplaces in Brunei Darussalam. The said checklist is to be used as a tool to aid Employers, Employees, Occupiers, and Principals to mitigate the risks of WAH and ensure compliance with the legal requirements stipulated under the Workplace Safety and Health Order, 2009 and its Regulations.

SHENA has developed a Self-Assessment Checklist for work at height (WAH) intended for use by all relevant workplaces in Brunei Darussalam. The said checklist is to be used as a tool to aid Employers, Employees, Occupiers, and Principals to mitigate the risks of WAH and ensure compliance with the legal requirements stipulated under the Workplace Safety and Health Order, 2009 and its Regulations.

This leaflet aims to serves as a further reference to promote compliance with the WSH (Incident Reporting) Regulations, 2014. One of the powers of SHENA warranted inspector "to require hospitals, medical clinics, or mortuaries to provide information, including medical records of persons are either injured in a workplace accident or suspected of suffering an occupational disease contracted from their workplace and are currently receiving treatment at the hospital or medical clinic". According to the International Labour Organization (ILO) (2023) Report, a joint study by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ILO found the statistics below:

This poster contains references to the Note-to-Industry (NTI) (Ref: 2024/NTI/07) to promote compliance with the WSH (Incident Reporting) Regulations, 2014. In Brunei Darussalam, 108 cases of occupational and work-related diseases were reported from 2017 to 2022. While the incidence rate of the reported cases is significantly lower than global figures i.e. 3.32 per 100,000 workers, under-reporting remains a significant concern.

This Note to Industry (NTI) serves as an announcement to inform private health clinics and their medical practitioners, registered under the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Act (Chapter 112) in Brunei Darussalam, on the Inspection Campaign on Occupational Diseases (ODs) Reporting for Private Health Clinics. The Safety, Health and Environment National Authority (SHENA) hereby announces that commencing from the period of August 2024 to January 2025 an inspection campaign will be launched with the theme “Empowering Occupational Diseases Reporting (Reporting for a Healthier Workplace)”.