Health and Safety (H&S) is committed to provide services and support to ensure a safe working and learning environment that is compliant to work regulations and practices, while promoting a healthy workplace culture of strong awareness towards safety values and shared responsibility by all staff, students, contractors and visitors.

Occupational Health and Safety Policy

Curtin University Malaysia is committed to providing and maintaining high standards of health and safety in the workplace. It is our belief that all injuries are preventable.

Health and safety is the responsibility of everyone and is assigned across all levels, from senior management to staff, workers, and other persons at the workplace (such as students and visitors), each playing an important role in contributing to a healthy and safe work environment.

The University will:

•  Embed a safety culture where people are empowered to take action to prevent injuries and maintain a safe working environment
• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation and the University’s Health and Safety Management System
• Promote an organizational culture that adopts health and safety as an integral component of its management philosophy
• Maintain an effective process for identifying and resolving health and safety issues and managing health, safety and psychosocial risks
• Ensure we uphold Curtin Values
• Ensure we uphold a culture that promotes workplace respect and where we believe that health, safety and wellbeing are paramount and threats to safety will not be
  tolerated
• Provide and maintain high standards of health and safety in the workplace
• Seek to embed health and safety management in our business planning and decision-making processes and ensure that it is adequately resourced by all areas
• Maintain an effective mechanism for consultation and communication of health and safety matters
• Provide appropriate health and safety education and support
• Regularly review health and safety performance to monitor the effectiveness of health and safety actions and ensure health and safety targets and objectives are
  met
• Continue to evolve its Health and Safety Management System through a process of continuous improvement, with a focus to identify and effectively control health and safety risks. This will be achieved in consultation with staff, workers and Health and Safety Committees with the objective of preventing workplace injury and maintaining a safe environment.

Professor Vincent Lee Chieng Chen
Pro-Vice Chancellor & President
October 2025

Contact us

Health & Safety Committee
Office of Chief Operating Officer

Curtin University Malaysia
CDT 250, 98009 Miri, Sarawak.

Tel: +6 085-630 100 (GMT +8)
Fax: +60 85-630 088
Email: Healthandsafety@curtin.edu.my