SINGAPORE — The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will be extending the heightened safety period and will impose higher fines on errant companies found to have serious safety breaches.
SINGAPORE — The Ministry of Manpower will extend the heightened safety period and impose higher fines on companies found to have serious safety breaches.
Given that there have been four workplace fatalities since the start of 2023, MOM said that heightened alert and vigilance need to be maintained. From March 1, MOM will also require the chief executive officer or a board director to attend a mandatory in-person half-day training course if their companies are found to have serious workplace safety and health lapses following serious or fatal workplace accidents.
According to MOM, the annualised workplace fatality rate per 100,000 workers improved during the heightened safery period, falling from 1.5 for the period of January to August 2022, to 0.8 for September to December 2022.However, the annualised major injury rate per 100,000 workers increased from 16.8 to 18.7 in that same period.The construction sector showed the most improvement, with the monthly average number of fatalities falling from 1.6 before September last year to 0.
Mr Zaqy Mohamad, the Senior Minister of State for Manpower, in the release said that good progress has been made following the heightened safety period, with improvements seen in the annualised workplace fatality rates and within the construction sector.
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