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Generally, the Act was drafted to provide minimum standard of safety, health and welfare of workers at workplace consisting of 5 employees or more and at premises which machinery were being used, including factories, building construction sites and works of engineering construction. The Act was only enforced in Peninsula Malaysia until 1980 when it was further enforced in Sabah and Sarawak. Until the year 1968, Chief Inspectors were made up of British citizens. By 1968, the posts of inspectors in the Machinery Department were fully filled by locals. The year 1968 was also the year when the post of Medical Officer and Surveillance Unit was created in the department. The unit did not stay that long under the Labour Ministry as it was placed under the administration of the Health Ministry in the year 1971.
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