More can be done to improve safety of crane operations despite fewer dangerous incidents: Zaqy…
- February 1, 2019
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Singapore Safety News
No CommentsSINGAPORE – There are fewer dangerous incidents involving cranes but more can be done to improve the safety of crane operations, said Minister of State for Manpower and National Development Zaqy Mohamad. The number of such occurrences has fallen from 22 in 2015 to 12 last year, he told more than 400 participants on Friday
In Britain, calls for a 4-day week. Can it be done?
- September 12, 2018
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Singapore Safety News
LONDON (NYTIMES) – Increasing numbers of workplaces around the world are embracing technology, and a greater array of tasks is being automated. In the eyes of one major British labour organisation, that need not be a threat to workers, but may instead offer an opportunity: less time working. “I believe that in this century, we
More workplace safety checks to be done
- June 29, 2018
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Singapore Safety News
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will step up enforcement efforts and conduct 250 more workplace safety inspections in the next two months, on top of the 500 inspections to be done from May to July that were announced earlier. This comes after a bakery owner’s fatal fall into a dough-making machine, and a woman died