Johari Bin Basri

Dato’ Dr Johari joined the Factories and Machinery Department of Malaysia, which is now known as Department of Occupational Safety and Health (“DOSH”), as a Factories and Machinery Inspector (Engineer) in 1977. He was then promoted as Director of Industrial Safety Division of DOSH in 1997.

In 2000 and 2004, Dato’ Dr Johari was seconded from DOSH to be the Executive Director of National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (“NIOSH”) Malaysia. He was the Executive Director of NIOSH Malaysia for years 2000 – 2002 and 2004 – 2007. In between that period, he returned to DOSH and assumed the role of Director General where he was responsible for the overall planning and implementation of the core activities of DOSH. Concurrently during his tenure in NIOSH Malaysia from 2004 to 2007, he was the Executive Director of ASEAN-OSHNET, the regional grouping of 10 ASEAN member countries working together towards improving the safety and health of the workers. In 2007, he returned to DOSH to resume the role of Director General until his retirement in June 2014.

Dato’ Dr Johari was also a member of the board of directors of NIOSH (2007 – 2014), board of member of CIDB (2007 – 2014), Chairman for the Industrial Standard Committee of Occupational Safety and Health (ISCW) SIRIM Berhad (2007 – 2014) and Member for Malaysian National Standards Committees (MyNSC) Standards Malaysia (2007 – 2014).