Call to step up global workplace safety
- September 7, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Singapore Safety News
No CommentsCountries worldwide need to step up efforts to fight the scourge of workplace deaths and injuries, said Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say. Speaking at the closing of a global workplace safety and health forum yesterday, he outlined the approach countries can take to prevent accidents and reduce fatalities at work. Each country has to do
Collapse of viaduct section a wake-up call: Lim Swee Say
- July 29, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Singapore Safety News
The collapse of a viaduct section in Upper Changi Road East on July 14 that killed one person and injured 10 others was due to a human lapse, Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say said yesterday evening. “One thing for sure is that this is a man-made incident that could have been avoided if everyone involved
Call for concerted effort by all players to ensure worksite safety
- July 22, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Singapore Safety News
When it comes to worksite safety, every person in the construction industry is responsible. The chairman of the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Council said this to members of construction-related associations in his first public remarks on the worksite accident along the Pan-Island Expressway on July 14, which claimed one life and left 10 others
Peace officers call for improved workplace health and safety at fatality inquiry
- June 13, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Global Safety News
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Constructors need health and safety wake-up call: survey
- April 27, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Global Safety News
Canadian employers have been exposed for widespread ignorance of new and long-standing occupational health and safety (OH&S) regulations in a recent survey. And construction employers, for all their talk about health and safety, are no different.That’s the view of Norm Keith, a partner at Toronto-based law firm Fasken Martineau and leading OH&S defense lawyer who
NYCOSH Joins National Call for Workplace Safety Protections to Save Thousands of Lives, Billions of Dollars
- March 17, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Global Safety News
New York, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) – The New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) has joined a nationwide campaign to advance an action agenda for workplace safety. “Protecting Workers’ Lives and Limbs,” convened by the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, has been endorsed by 92 groups across the country, including NYCOSH. The