A dust explosion accident in Malaysia is seldom discussed by the safety practitioner or by authorities. Small Medium Enterprise (SME) industries tend to neglect the risk lies within their boundary since it was not happening, and this mainly become the reason the dust explosion event does occur repeatedly. The introduction of the trend cases in this study will be the goal in order to make industries aware the dust explosion as thread in the business operation sustainability. Data was collected through literature, case reported in DOSH website safety alert, document analysis and observation at field by using triangulation methodology in qualitative research model. It was found out there is an increasing trend in the reported cases related to dust explosion at workplace. This trend does confirm the study that dust explosion accident is becoming threat in making industry to operate in sustainable manner. Nevertheless, in Malaysia, there is still lack of awareness in understanding dust explosion accident by industrial practitioner. This is where the researcher has started an initiative in developing a local database using Microsoft Access comprising all over the world cases study. The compilation of accidents was extracted using five elements related to the Explosion Pentagon principles that will ease industrial sharing in term of lesson learn and this database known as UMP-DEx. This database is maintained by UMP researchers in Process Safety Management. The update takes place throughout years and the sharing on the best practices will be ongoing basis. The normal platform used in developing awareness in industrial is by participating in conferences, project paper publications, journal publications, and lastly by conducting training in industries. The sharing of this database will help industries in managing the same risk from happening by understanding the root cause and easily plan mitigation action to avoid this accident from happened again.
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To Cite this Article: Ahmad, M. A. B., Ismail, N. B., & Othman, M. R. B. (2019). Big Data Management for Malaysian Small Medium Enterprise (SME) Industries Involving Dust Explosion Incidents. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 9(11), 1201–1212.
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