Companies should report near misses to bring down industrial accident rate: Zaqy Mohamad
- January 16, 2019
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Singapore Safety News
No CommentsSINGAPORE – Companies need to report near misses at the workplace and encourage workers to highlight hazards, in order to reduce the number of injuries resulting from industrial accidents. Speaking at the launch of Safe Hands Campaign 2019 on Thursday (Jan 10), Minister of State for Manpower and National Development, Zaqy Mohamad, said such near-miss
Jurong Shipyard fined $230k over fatal accident
- June 5, 2018
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Singapore Safety News
Jurong Shipyard has been fined $ 230,000 over a fatal accident in 2015 which saw a worker struck by and caught between a gantry crane and a manifold. The shipyard was convicted of failing to take reasonably practicable measures to ensure the safety of workers at its 5 Jalan Samulun site, the Ministry of Manpower
Logistics firm fined $80,000 over accident where forklift ran over worker's legs
- September 27, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Singapore Safety News
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Dreamworld accident: Report cracks down on theme park safety
- August 22, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Global Safety News
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Workplace accident death rate higher for older workers
- August 7, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Global Safety News
Firefighters transport an injured worker in a stretcher to the ambulance after an April 2014 explosion at the Bryan Texas Utilities Power Plant that left worker Earle Robinson, 60, dead and two others injured. Provided/Bryan Fire Department via AP By John McDermott jmcdermott@postandcourier.com Older people are dying on the job at a higher rate than
Thorough investigation of viaduct accident needed
- July 20, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Singapore Safety News
The collapse of the 40m segment of the viaduct under construction next to the slip road from Upper Changi Road East to the Pan-Island Expressway surprised many. The corbels might have given way for various reasons, including design oversight, overloading, concrete not achieving the required compressive stress and poor workmanship. The Land Transport Authority has
Man crushed to death by “scissor lift device” in horror workplace accident
- May 30, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Global Safety News
A MAN has died after being crushed to death in a horror workplace accident at Ipswich, west of Brisbane. The man in his 60s was reportedly crushed by a scissor lift at a business in Carole Park on Saturday morning. Paramedics were called to the Cobalt Street warehouse around 1.20am, but it was too late. ARTICLE CONTINUES
Worker killed by falling pipe being unloaded from truck in Darling Downs industrial accident
- May 8, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Global Safety News
A man has died after he was hit by a falling pipe being unloaded from a truck, in an industrial workplace accident in the Darling Downs region. The incident happened about 9.15am on Saturday at the Malduf Street worksite in Chinchilla, with Workplace Health and Safety Queensland investigating the death of the 36-year-old worker. A
Farmer airlifted to hospital following workplace accident
- March 12, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Global Safety News
Arigna area of Roscommon. Arigna area of Roscommon. A MAN IN his 60s suffered serious head injuries in a workplace accident in Roscommon yesterday morning. The incident happened on a farm near the village of Arigna which is around 25 kilometres away from Boyle. Emergency services were called and the man was airlifted to Galway
Man in his 40s dies after horror early morning workplace accident at Kildare industrial estate
- February 18, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Global Safety News
Fatal incident The fatal workplace accident took place at approximately 2.30am this morning at a Naas business park A MAN has died following an incident at an industrial estate in the early hours of this morning Gardai are investigating the death of the man, thought to be in his 40s, that occurred at a the