3.4 Maintenance Budget
Maintenance budget is the large block of
money that tracked by specific department which is the accounting department.
The budget will distribute into the organization involve in maintenance such as
labour, materials, services, and other related expenses. Maintenance budget
should be an expression of the forecasted short term which is annually and long
term workloads in term of the cost of internal labour, contract labour and the
materials needed to deal with them. This maintenance budget also emphasized
that in plants requiring major shutdowns and there is also the need for a
specific turnaround budget.
Budgeting procedures appropriate for large
process plants are compared with those for individual manufacturing units.
Maintenance budgeting is rarely as rational as described, senior management
seeing maintenance only as a cost and ignoring the linkage between maintenance
expenditure and production output. The need for a maintenance budget arises
from the overall budgeting need of corporate management and involves estimation
of the cost of the resources such as labours, materials, spare parts and other
expenses budget. That will be needed in the next financial year to meet the
expected maintenance workload.
For our case study, Penang City Stadium, the
officer that we interview informed us that the maintenance budget of this
stadium is about RM 500,000.00. This amount of budget will distribute to all
department which are civil and engineering department, mechanical and
electrical department, and services for their facilities. This amount of budget
gave from government for their maintenance per annum and it will change by the
situation and condition from the government budgeting for every year. The officer
also informed us if the budget for maintenance is not enough then they will
issue the problem to Majlis Pembandaran Pulau Pinang (MPPP). After that, the
MPPP will check the issues and a reply letter will be issued.
Other than that, Penang City Stadium also
have maintenance budget for field and track. This field need to have the
maintenance such as cutting and sprinkling process. If the work cannot be done
by worker from stadium they will hire the specialist to complete the
maintenance. This maintenance also include in maintenance budget per annum.
1.2 Health and
Safety Aspects
As mention above,
Penang City Stadium maintenance work is carry out by contractors and workers in
Penang City Stadium. Meanwhile, the ccontractors and
workers often work in workplaces with hazards that unfamiliar to them which may
comprises of chemical, pollution, and many more hazards.
Workers at the stadium roughly spend
their time about 8 hours per day. It means that quarter of the day they spent
at the stadium. Thus, it is very important for the working environment
(stadium) to be kept safe from any hazard or circumstances.
In our case study
site, Penang City Stadium is not concern about health and safety aspects in
maintenance work. According to the information provided by Chief Clear, the
contractors who undergo maintenance work in the stadium are not concern about
their safety. In which, they does the maintenance works without using and
wearing any safety equipment.
Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) 1994
Purpose
of OSHA 1994
·
To ensure safety,
health and welfare of people who are at work.
·
To protect other people against risk or hazard regarding the
activities of persons at work.
·
To promote safe working environment for persons at work.
·
To enhance the productivity rate of work by good working
environment.
Problem and Hitch to Implement OSHA 1994
1) Safety officer quality of works is
inefficient;
Safety officer in every company is a
must as required by the OSHA 1994. But, most of the company simply do not compliance the health and
safety aspects due to lack of safety commitment and low budget allocation by
management team.
2) Ineffective
health and safety campaign;
Health and safety awareness
campaigns are important so that people who at work will avoid any accident or
injury at the workplace.
3) Lack of health and safety act enforcement by
local authority;
Insufficient human labour, low government budget
allocation and not committed can be added to this constraints.
4) Inadequate safety training and course for safety
officer;
Most of the safety officers
are not properly trained and not certified for them to provide and enforce
safety guidelines on the site.
5) Behaviour of people who at work;
Some people at work pretend not to follow health
and safety aspects although they know their working environment are no safe and
being expose with hazard.
Importance of Implementing OSHA 1994
· - It establishes health and safety guidelines
· - It might help in reducing accidents on site
· - It leads to greater productivity and a higher quality of
work
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