1. Workplace Safety and Health
1.1. Key Features
1.1.1. Emphasis on responsibilities on stakeholders who have the capability to ensure safety
1.1.2. Main focus is on on workplace safety and health systems and outcomes
1.1.3. Issuance of remedial orders
1.1.4. Reduces non-compliance & risky behaviours through implementations of higher penalties
1.2. Training
1.2.1. Employees are expected to go for safety courses and training under the Singapore Workforce Skills Qualification
1.3. Coverage
1.3.1. All workplaces
1.3.1.1. pertains to anywhere carries out work or is there to work
1.3.1.2. Examples --> factories, shipyards, storage facilities, utilities, vehicle repair
1.3.2. Responsibilities of stakeholders which involves different requirements for the respective roles of:
1.3.2.1. Employer
1.3.2.2. Self-employed
1.3.2.3. Principle
1.3.2.4. Occupier
1.3.2.5. Manufacturer/Supplier
1.3.2.6. Installer/erector of machinery
1.3.3. Usage of hazardous substances
1.3.3.1. 1. Carcinogens 2. Corrosive substances 3. Explosives 4. Flammable substances 5. Gases under pressure 6. Irritants 7. Mutagens 8. Organic peroxides 9. Oxidising substances 10. Pyrophoric substances 11. Self-heating substances 12. Self-reactive substances 13. Sensitisers 14. Substances hazardous to the aquatic environment 15. Substances that emit flammable gases when in contact with water 16. Teratogens 17. Toxic substances
1.3.4. Machinery & Equipment
1.3.4.1. - Scaffolds and any materials or components used to erect them. - Lifting equipment. - Forklifts. - Power presses. - Bar-benders. - Equipment or piping intended for use under pressure, including all statutory pressure vessels. - Equipment or piping containing corrosive, toxic or flammable substances. - Welding equipment, including any accessory, apparatus or fitting necessary to enable its use. - Materials or components used for the construction of support structures. - Explosive powered tools. - Equipment used for abrasive blasting, including any accessory, apparatus or fitting necessary to enable its use.
1.4. Welfare
1.5. Work Related Accidents
1.5.1. Report work related accidents, dangerous occurrences, and Occupational Diseases.
2. Responsibilities of stakeholders
2.1. Employer
2.1.1. Involving employees in designing and organizing work
2.2. Principal
2.2.1. Making sure that any machinery, equipment, plant, article or process that is used at work is safe.
2.3. Occupier
2.3.1. Ensuring the workplace. All pathways to and from the place of work. Machinery, equipment, plants, articles and substances, are all safe to use
2.4. Manufacturer or supplier
2.4.1. Ensure that machinery and equipment or hazardous substances you provide are safe. -Provide information on health hazards and how to safely use the item. -Examine and test the item, ensuring that is safe for use -Provide results of any examinations or tests of machinery, equipment or hazardous substances
2.5. Installer or erector of machinery
2.5.1. Ensure that machinery and equipment that you have erected, installed or modified is safe and without safety or health risks when properly used
2.6. Employee
2.6.1. Must follow safe work procedures or safety rules implemented at the workplace.
2.7. Self-employed
2.7.1. required to take measures to ensure the safety and health of anyone in the workplace who may be affected by your work.