As the world continues its voyage towards modernization it faces tremendous challenges of the 21st century. The rapid growth in the industry globally has raised concern on safety and health issues at the workplace. As a result, more occupational accidents and injuries at the workplace make headline news all over the globe. The aim of this concept paper is to develop a safety practices evaluation conceptual model, which includes diverse perspectives for evaluating the various leading and lagging indicators of safety practices in Malaysian public universities. Numerous studies have presented a range of factors for measuring safety performance across numerous disciplines, including education and facilities management. A critical review of published factors enabled the researcher to select those factors which underpinned the foundations for conceptual safety practices BSC. However, any safety practices BSC framework conceptualization process would require careful consideration of the Malaysia context, especially its cultural dimensions. This paper will discuss the Conceptual development of safety practices BSC conceptual model for Malaysian public universities identified four perspectives: (1) Safety Management and Leadership (SML); (2) Safety Learning and Training (SLT); (3) Safety Policy, Procedures, and Processes (SPPP); (4) Workforce Safety Culture (WSC). The performance of, and interrelationship among, these enablers contributed to the degree of safety performance value added to the Malaysia education environment through the safety BSC process. It is hoped that this paper can contribute significantly to the knowledge body in the area of management and administration in education and can directly provide guidance to Malaysia public universities as well as related parties especially to the MOE to strategies their Safety practices on how to ensure the improvement and effective safety performance.
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