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Due the Covid-19 outbreak, many countries have imposed border restrictions and movement controls. Agriculture sector of Malaysia is one of the most directly affected due the movement's control order, and it has a significant economic impact on the country. Agriculture businesses have had output problems as a result of the shutdown of many service industries, such as retail and logistics. Farmers' socioeconomic needs in terms of farm productivity, household living expenditures, investments, and debt payments for agricultural operations were all impacted by agricultural produce dumping, labour shortages, and the closure of agricultural companies. Therefore, the government should role out a critical strategies to help affected farmers organization and farmers. Thus, the Farmers Organization Authority's coping mechanisms and plans to protect the well-being of low-income farmers, breeders, fishers, and Farmers Organization are highlighted, and their potential success is explored. During and after a pandemic, the main tactics and concerns are to guarantee that food is always available and accessible, as well as to improve income and maintain farmers. The significance of this study may aid in the planning and implementation of national strategies to alleviate this emerging burden.

The manufacturing industry is one of the sectors contributing to the country's economic growth. However, it also contributes to the negative impact on manufacturers, with workplace accidents statistics in the manufacturing industry increased over the years. Therefore, this study focuses on identifying the types, factors and minimize industrial accidents in the manufacturing industry based on the manufacturer's perspective in Johor. Using a qualitative research method, the data in this study was collected through the semi- structured interview. Three respondents are manufacturers located in Johor. The results show that the manufacturing industry has various types of accidents such as fatal accidents, permanent disability, and temporary disability. Most accidents happen caused by the lack of knowledge and skills, blind spot area-eyesight limited distance, unsafe design in the workplace, machinery and tools, unsafe act, and stress and fatigue. Besides, the manufacturing industry is required to minimize the accidents that's continue happens by provide accurate training and safety training support, monitor all employees by conducting regular audits, provide a reflection mirror at every angle, required and appropriate safety uniform, providing a conducive and comfortable working environment, and have a proper of machine guard. Hence, the overall impact of workers' accidents is high because the accident is more felt by employees than by employers. The impact that workers have to bear is that the financial, physical and psychological negatives of the accident are far longer than that of the employer.

Unsustainable system of food consumption cause food waste issues occurred. This is an unacceptable ethical decision because of many people suffer in hunger and also bring global warming problem. The purpose of this study is to identify the source of food waste in food service industry and minimize the food waste problem base on food service providers’ perspective in Johor. This study conducted qualitative research method, the data is collected through semi-structured interview from 4 food service providers in Johor. As a result, the sources of food waste are generated from preparation losses, service losses, and plate waste. The ways to minimize food waste are menu planning, food storage management, staff training, provide take-home service, food donation, animal feed, and composting. Hence, this study provides important information for future research to create software to implement food waste manage effectively.

Each sector has its problems. Haze is a common problem in sectors such as the manufacturing sector, and the agricultural sector. The excessive haze will cause problems for the environment and will, in the long run, affect the existing ecosystem. Not only haze becomes a problem for each sector but sometimes air, soil and noise pollution also happen in each sector. Therefore, this study aims to minimize pollution in the paddy field. Agriculture industry benefits in economic growth. However, it contributes to the negative impact on the environment. Thus, this study focused on identifying the types, factors, and solutions to pollution in the agriculture industry based on the pollution from paddy field activity in Kedah. This study conducted qualitative research methods. The respondents are top management from the Muda Agricultural Development Authority (MADA) which located in Kedah. The result showed that activity from the paddy field has various types of pollution such as water, air, and soil. Meanwhile, the pollution caused by the open burning, the use of inorganic fertilizers, less use of the latest technology and the technology available is very limited and inadequate due to high demand. The results of this study provide a solution to the pollution caused by activities in paddy fields such as using the ‘Jerami Gulung’ Method, reduce the use of chemical fertilizers, using the incinerator, makes it a compost, turning straw into livestock and using the straw grinding machine. As implications, this study of raising farmers' awareness to reduce excessive use of chemical fertilizers, not burning straw and raising awareness among MADA and Environment Agency on smart ways to conserving and preserving the environment.

This study focuses on the problem-solving of building damage in the School of Technology Management and Logistics (STML). Building maintenance includes cleaning common areas, removing trash regularly, and repairing items that are broken. It can involve inspecting, repairing, and maintaining electrical systems, heating and air conditioning systems, and other utility services. The objective of this study is to identify the types, factors, and solutions of building damage based on the STML staff perspective. Qualitative research methods had conducted to collect data. The result showed that building damage has several types such as cracking wall, termite on the ground, and roof leakage. It caused by the factor usage of construction materials, construction design, and dampness environment. The solution is to report to the Development and Maintenance Department (JPP). As implications, this study raises awareness for those building users to know the factor that can cause several types of damage that can influence our lives and to avoid occurs building damage in our building.

This study aimed to explore the current knowledge and practices of sustainable solid waste management among the rural community in Malaysia. It is becoming a significant concern to promote sustainable practices to the rural community, given that the facilities of solid waste disposal are noticeably lacking in the rural area. Data was gathered through a survey questionnaire in two phases. The first phase of the survey examines the community’s current solid waste practices and their knowledge about solid waste management. The second phase gathered the community’s level of knowledge about sustainable solid waste management after a briefing and demonstration about composting. A total of 55 respondents from a rural community in northern Malaysia were selected via a convenience sampling method for the purpose of this study. Empirical results show that while the existing knowledge and practices of sustainable solid waste are low among the rural community, their knowledge about sustainable practices improves significantly after the briefing and practical activity. The study conveys some practical implications to the need for environmental awareness and education to promote sustainable practices in managing waste in the rural areas.

The growing interest in environmental innovation has led to an increase in the number of research studies around that area in different industries (Dutz & Sharma, 2012). The construction industry is a critical industry for the study of environmental- or sustainability related issues, considering that, it is responsible for some of the most serious impacts on the environment. Indeed, there is a growing concern regarding environmental impacts resulting from construction activities. By comparison with other industries, its activities are considered as making a major contribution to environmental problems (Ball, 2002; Tam, Tam & Tsui, 2004; Tam & Tam, 2008). In the United Kingdom (UK), specifically, the construction sector contributed 11.2% of the total of UK greenhouse gas emissions in 2013 (Office for National Statistics, 2015) while around 420 million tonnes of construction material is consumed by the construction industry each year, whereby approximately 120 million tonnes is wasted (EISC, 2012). It shows that, by its nature, construction is not an environmentally-friendly activity. Conversely, the construction industry plays a vital role in meeting the needs of society and enhancing the quality of life. Its activities directly affect the nature, function and appearance of the place in which people live. In addition, it contributes to a better standard of living by offering employment to people all over the world. Specifically, the UK construction industry employs 2.1 million people (Rhodes, 2015), accounting for 6.3% of total UK employment in 2014. The industry’s output was increased to £92 billion (6.4% of the total economy) in 2014 (Office for National Statistics, 2015), which makes a valuable contribution to the UK economy. Hence, the economic significance of the construction industry cannot be underestimated.

Sesungguhnya, industri pembinaan merupakan sebuah industri yang kompleks dan merbahaya dengan suasana persekitaran kerja yang berisiko tinggi serta mempunyai kepelbagaian bidang dan tenaga kerja yang berpotensi untuk mengalami kemalangan, kecederaan serta kematian di tapak bina (Mohamed Khodeir & Salaheldine, 2018; Vitharana, Subashi De Silva & Sudhira De Silva, 2015). Namun, dalam memahami dan melaksanakan setiap bidang kerja di tapak bina ini, maka adalah penting pihak yang bertanggungjawab dapat menyampaikan arahan kerja serta maklumat keselamatan ini dengan berkesan. Hal ini adalah bagi memastikan setiap kefahaman yang dicapai dapat diaplikasikan sekaligus menjamin hasil dan kualiti pelaksanaan kerja serta jaminan keselamatan diri. Berhubung risiko kemalangan yang sering berlaku di tapak bina, maka adalah penting maklumat keselamatan ini diketahui terlebih dahulu oleh pekerja sebelum memulakan kerja di tapak bina. Maklumat keselamatan ini sebenarnya adalah melibatkan beberapa aspek perlindungan diri, peraturan serta cara kerja selamat di samping penyediaan persekitaran kerja yang kondusif bagi mencegah individu yang bekerja mengalami kecederaan atau kesan kesihatan dari kerja yang dilakukan. Lazimnya, maklumat keselamatan pekerjaan ini diterima oleh pekerja semasa menghadiri Kursus Induksi Keselamatan dan Kesihatan iaitu satu kursus awal yang wajib dihadiri sebelum memasuki tapak bina. Namun, isunya adalah sejauh manakah maklumat keselamatan di dalam kursus ini difahami oleh pekerja asing? Sebelum itu, mari kita kenali terlebih dahulu siapakah itu pekerja asing dan Kursus Induksi Keselamatan dan Kesihatan.

Pembelajaran merupakan proses dalaman bagi menghasilkan suatu perubahan tingkah laku yang agak kekal bagi pemerolehan pengetahuan. Dalam industri pembinaan, pembelajaran di kalangan setiap pekerja terutamanya pekerja asing dilaksanakan melalui Kursus Induksi Keselamatan dan Kesihatan (KIKK) iaitu bertujuan bagi menjamin keselamatan diri ketika bekerja di tapak bina. Kursus ini dilihat mempunyai ciri-ciri pembelajaran bukan formal dan pembelajaran dewasa dengan sokongan medium pembelajaran atau penyampaian maklumat. Justeru, kertas ini akan membincangkan mengenai sejauh mana keberkesanan penggunaan kaedah pembelajaran menggunakan medium pembelajaran sedia ada terhadap pekerja asing di dalam kursus. Pelaksanaan kajian ini dilakukan secara kaedah kuantitatif dengan pemilihan sampel secara pensampelan mudah. Hasil kajian mendapati tahap keberkesanan medium pembelajaran sedia ada yang digunakan tidak membantu pekerja asing dalam mengetahui serta memahami mengenai kesan tidak menggunakan kelengkapan pelindung diri. Namun begitu, hanya pelindung kepala, pelindung kaki dan pelindung tangan sahaja menunjukkan tahap kebolehbantuan yang lebih tinggi berbanding dengan kelengkapan pelindung diri yang lain.

The present research strives to improve safety cultures to reduce work-related injuries in the hazardous environment of the construction industry for foreign workers using a training course. It focuses on developing a framework for needs of information delivery used by foreign workers based on misunderstanding problem in, Health, Safety and Environment Induction Training (HSEIT). The aim of this study is to discover the needs and redevelop a framework for information delivery for foreign workers in the course. This study has been carried out using quantitative approach with convenient sampling. The respondents are foreign workers who are involved in construction works in a natural environment. They are trained how to protect themselves against hazardous environmental and ecological events. Research findings revealed that among the needs for information delivery by the foreign workers in training course include printed text in their own language for the notes, books, booklets; oral delivery is also expected to be in their own language, which includes face-to-face delivery, slides, film, and video. This is found to be very beneficial when they confront dangerous environmental risks. Also, they need printed visual materials like notes as well as video. In overall, the needs framework is able to greatly impact and contribute in construction industry, in which it could be the guidelines and alternative reference for various parties like the course instructors, safety officer, and the Construction Industry and Development Board (CIDB). In fact, the environmental framework is able to increase the gained information and understanding in satisfying the needs of the foreign workers in the natural site besides advancing the instructors’ delivery of the contents in training course and eliminating the language barrier in HSEIT. It is also potential to help the CIDB achieving the course objective and increase the safety performance in open environments as well as the safety aware

Attending Safety and Health Induction Course (SHIC) is compulsory for construction workers before they can enter and work in this site.After attending this training, they will get the Green Card which allows them to start working on the sites.However, the PowerPoint (PPT) still be used as an existing medium which has been used to disseminate the safety information in SHIC using the Malay language and English as a mediator. Thus, this study examines the level of technology acceptance of foreign worker towards PPT after attending the training, which assessed using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) in order to seek their response.It is important to seek the foreign workers’ response towards PPT which providing empirical evidence to the CIDB, trainer and employers’ management for future improvement. So, TAM has been used to study the factors which impact the foreign workers’ acceptance level towards PPT.The factors contained perceive usefulness (PU), perceive ease of use (PEOU), attitudes towards using (A) and behavioural intention to use (BI).Thereby to seek the foreign workers acceptance level towards PPT in SHIC, convenient sampling has been chosen in this study. The area covered in this study was Kedah and Perlis and it is limited to 64 foreign workers due to the constraint and limitation.The analyzed results reveal that the foreign workers perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use shows the moderate positive relationship towards the PPT.While, foreign workers attitude and behaviour intention to use shows low correlation with no significant impact towards the PPT.The finding suggests that PPT still useful to be used as a learning medium, but needs to be upgraded and improve regarding the content, text, video, language usage, functions, interfaces and others. As a future result for this improvement, it will lead to a better learning medium, encourages them to stay motivated and focus while increasing the construction performance and decreasing the accidents.

This study aims to minimize pollution and waste in manufacturing industry.Manufacturing industry benefits in economic growth.However, it contributes the negative impact to environment. Thus, this study focused on identifying the types, factors and solution of industry pollution in manufacturing industry based on the manufacturers’ perspective in Kedah.This study design used qualitative research methods.The respondents are the manufacturers which located in Kedah.The results showed that manufacturing industries have various types of pollution such as noise, water, air, soil, heat and radioactive.Meanwhile, the pollution caused by the lack of stringent policies to control the pollution, unplanned industry growth, using of outdated technologies, inefficient waste disposal, leaching of resources from natural, exhausting and from processes from industries.The results of this study provide the solution which occurred in manufacturing industries such as adopt the 3R’s waste hierarchy, wastewater treatment process, prevention and control of pollution, conserve and protect water, NPI data, control radioactive pollution and improve the industrial exhaust system.As implications, this study raises awareness of manufacturer in reducing the use of hazardous materials during the production process and improve the knowledge of manufacturer and the environment agency on the smart in conserving and preserving the environment.

Green building is an integral part of an organization responsibilities to create green sustainable living and designed of building has environmentally friendly, efficient energy and provide healthy air cycle.The issue of green building factors must be carried out using green building method and can be expected to be a solution for reducing the impact of global warming and environmental damage.This research study is identifying the methods for improving project of green building in the construction industry and explore the way to convince the government about related importance of green building.The research method using qualitative research that consists of two contractors from Indonesia.The finding of this research attains the method for improving green building from the aspect of size building, location and selection of material.The finding also show the way to convince government using green building is applying promotion to minimizing cost and implementing of green building into daily life. The implication of this research can intend the method by the contractor produce treated and stabilized in concept of green building, economize energy use by user of that building and show the new idea from contractor to design green building that can giving best quality standard.

Traditionally, procurement covers the sales and purchase activities between two entities, which covers various aspects from searching, sourcing, negotiating, ordering, and receipt, to post-purchase review.In line with the advancement of Information and Communication Technologies, as well as with the rapid growth of the Internet, more and more people and organisations are becoming connected.In order to move with the times, many governments around the world have looked into implementing e-government systems, part of which is the e-procurement system.This paper presents the advantages as well as challenges faced when implementing an e-procurement system based on results of a case study, from the perspective of a Malaysian company (Telekom Research and Development Sdn. Bhd.) implementing an e-procurement system that has been developed internally, rather than installing an off-the-shelf software application. Internally developed e-procurement systems covers four important dimensions, namely information collected, type of application, contract negotiation, and intelligence analysis, all of which are analysed in view of e-procurement performance.The outcome of this research yielded pertinent information for the company in identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the internally developed e-procurement system, as well as enabling the organisation to highlight the practices and performance as a benchmark to measure the level of success of their own e-procurement system.Thus, due to the potential cost savings and highlighted benefits in this paper, e-procurement requires more attention from the government as related entities for greater expansion and adoption in order to ultimately contribute to the growth and well-being of the country’s economy.

This study about to solve problems related to the safety work method in the construction industry. This study was conducted to identify the problem occurred among workers at the construction industry in Malaysia, to propose the safety work method in the construction industry and to develop a new model of safety work method in the construction industry.Data collection will be conducted by using qualitative methods by interview CIDB construction personnel.The expected finding from this study is can provide a solution for reduced the problem accident among workers construction site for give the best protection while at the site. The conclusion, the contribution from this study is to develop a new model to reduce the problem about safety work in the construction building industry in the Malaysia.This study also can interpret or give scenario the good safety work method in the construction industry can reduce the accident at the site.The significant from this study is can provide a method for safety workers for reduce the accident at construction site, can give a clear picture about the methods use to improve the safety works and to emphasize the personnel construction to carry out these methods on an ongoing basis at the construction site.

This study was conducted to develop model to solve problems related to the safety implementation on foreign workers in construction industry.This study was conducted to identify problems that occurred among foreign workers in Malaysia in the construction industry, to propose the best way to reduce the problem of implementation of safety among foreign workers in the construction industry and to develop model for solve the problem of implementation of safety among foreign workers in the construction industry.To get information with precise, the study was conducted using qualitative research methods. The expected finding in this study are found that can alleviate the problems suffered by foreign workers as a result of the proposal and safety workers and can provide a solution to overcome the problem on safety implementation of foreign workers in the construction industry.As a conclusion, the contribution of this study is to provide and develop a model as an effective solutions to reduce the problems among foreign workers in implementation of safety work on construction industry.This study also showed a high level of awareness of successful pervaded by foreign workers from the safety work at the construction site that was successfully implemented. The significant in this study are to help foreign workers to resolve problems on foreign workers, to provide a clear understanding about safety implementation in construction industry meanwhile to provide a best solution to overcome the problem on safety implementation of foreign workers in the construction industry and to emphasize the foreign workers to carry out these methods on an going basic at construction industry.

This paper focuses on the discussion of the impact of IM-SmartSAFETY courseware on foreign workers in the construction industry. This courseware was developed as an alternative media of information delivery in bilingual multimedia and two directional teaching aids for foreign workers in Health and Safety Induction Course (HSIC). The study discovered that the IM-SmartSAFETY courseware have contributed a great impact and meets the needs of the foreign workers on construction sites as well as one of the mechanism to help tackle the language problem.The study was conducted quantitative research methods supported by qualitative research is found a parallel in terms of data acquisition which is seen IMSmartSAFETY courseware has helped meet the needs of foreign workers regarding personal protective equipment (PPE) in terms of knowledge about the types and uses of PPE, safety regulations related to PPE, proper wear of PPE and the effect of the proper usage of PPE which include safety helmets, safety boots, protective clothing or safety jackets, ear protection, eye and face protection, safety belts, protective glove and protective breathing after using the courseware.The findings also exhibits that the overall of helpfulness of courseware also found that language issues have been resolved.In fact, the acquisition of knowledge foreign workers on safety at construction sites and the way of delivery information by the trainers to foreign workers have been enhanced while reducing the rate of accidents on construction sites and increase foreign workers awareness about the hazard and improve occupational safety of foreign workers in Malaysia.

IM-SmartSAFETY is an application developed as a medium for delivering contents to foreign workers in response to language problem in Health and Safety Induction Course (HSIC).It is a compulsory initial course for all workers including local and foreign workers and professionals before entering into construction sites.In ensuring IM-SmartSAFETY meets the objective of the course, learning theories, particularly constructivism, social, and minimalism, have been applied along the development process.In accordance, this paper discusses the importance of applying learning theories in the IM-SmartSAFETY.Constructivism theory is important in IM-SmartSAFETY because it supports the creation of new knowledge through creative and critical thinking based on the existing knowledge while solving problems in existing cases.Meanwhile through social theory, emphasis on cognitive is deeper than on physical behavior in which visual representation of positive and negative behavior could be imitated. It also promotes social interaction among the peers and between the trainees and the trainers through activities provided in the application. Further, minimalism theory is important because it ensures the application is appealing in terms arrangement of text, information, graphic, color, and audio so that they never confuse the foreign workers, but make them understand.

Failure of design professionals to consider maintenance element during the design process thus results in higher operating cost, wastage, defects during the post occupancy of a building. Accordingly, this study will discuss the problems and issues that appear in the building management in commercial building in Malaysia as parts of the efforts to enhance the building value.The research was conducted by collecting data from journal articles about the building management issue.Good management of the building will be able to influence the quality of the buildings that remain long, safe and beautiful without any damage and problems.In addition, building a good management can ensure that the facilities available in the building are well and meet the standard.Thus, exposure to the problems and needs in the management of the building would be able to help improve building management systems to be more effective.

Industries that relied heavily on internal development of new products face difficult challenges when planning R&D project portfolios for new products.Due to the uncertain nature of innovation, each R&D project undertaken for developing a new product has a degree of risk of failure which is significant and potentially very high.Major causes for project failure are faults, unpredicted changes and the unforeseen impossibilities of the objectives. Hence, this paper aims to highlight measures in managing risk in the early stage of new product development (NPD), particularly the R&D of the product. This paper also discusses the R&D management implication to technological innovation.