Malaysian wooden furniture industry: study of safety standards, compliance and consequential implications

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Malaysian wooden furniture industry: study of safety standards, compliance and consequential implications

The improvement of health and safety standards within the organisational context is an important issue of global concern. The traditional approach to managing workplace safety in Malaysia has focused on the technical aspects of engineering systems and processes, and it has attributed the majority of...

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Main Authors:	Ratnasingam, Jegatheswaran, Ioras, Florin, Bennet, Michael
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wood Technology Society of the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining 2010
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15523/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15523/1/Malaysian%20wooden%20furniture%20industry.pdf

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