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New method to help boost workplace safety
- August 30, 2018
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Singapore Safety News
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The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) is adopting a new method to boost workplace safety – by telling companies how they fare compared with others in their industry, motivating them to do better. This brings a new dimension to the ministry’s surprise inspections, Manpower Minister Josephine Teo said at the opening of the biennial Singapore Workplace
Data analytics, behavioural insights tapped to improve workplace safety in Singapore
- August 29, 2018
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Singapore Safety News
SINGAPORE – Instead of relying on surprise inspections to ensure workplace safety, the Manpower Ministry has been piloting a new method of doing so – by also informing firms with poorer records of how they perform relative to others in their industry. This marks a change in the ministry’s regulatory approach, said Manpower Minister Josephine
Workplace safety and health committee getting companies to focus on track record of contractors in…
- August 6, 2018
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Singapore Safety News
SINGAPORE – A committee tasked to chart a comprehensive 10-year blueprint in making Singapore workplaces safer and healthier is studying ways to help companies and developers better understand the track record of contractors when deciding on project tenders. Mr John Ng, chairman of the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Council, said this is one of
Study to help firms understand better contractors' safety record
- August 1, 2018
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Singapore Safety News
A committee tasked with charting a comprehensive 10-year blueprint in making Singapore workplaces safer and healthier is studying ways to help companies and developers better understand the track record of contractors when deciding on project tenders. Mr John Ng, chairman of the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Council, said this is one of the ideas
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
6 construction deaths in first five months of 2018: Workplace Safety and Health Council
- June 20, 2018
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Singapore Safety News
SINGAPORE – There were six workplace deaths in the construction sector in the first five months of this year, up from two in the same period last year, it was revealed on Wednesday (June 20). Mr John Ng, chairman of the Workplace Safety and Health Council (WSH), also reported a total of 12 deaths in
Jurong Shipyard fined $230,000 over safety lapses that led to worker's death
- June 12, 2018
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Singapore Safety News
SINGAPORE – Jurong Shipyard has been fined $ 230,000 for a fatal accident in 2015 which saw a worker struck 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
More help for workers with chronic conditions under new workplace safety and health move
- May 16, 2018
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Singapore Safety News
SINGAPORE – Workers with diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol will be able to get screened and manage these chronic conditions early, under an initiative to promote safety and health at workplaces. It will identify at-risk workers – those whose health markers are a cause for concern – and help at least a fifth
Workplace safety charge dropped after employee death
- May 7, 2018
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Global Safety News
The prosecution case against Copper Mines of Tasmania over the death of a worker at the Mount Lyell site has been dropped. Michael Welsh died at the Queenstown mine in Tasmania's west in January 2014, a month after two other workers fell to their deaths at Mount Lyell. The 53-year-old was killed when a sudden inflow
John Ng appointed chairman of Workplace Safety and Health Council
- April 7, 2018
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Singapore Safety News
SINGAPORE – The Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Council will have a new chairman from April 1 when Mr John Ng takes over the position from Mr Heng Chiang Gnee. Mr Ng, currently chief executive of Singapore LNG Corporation, has more than 30 years of experience in the energy sector. He is the vice-president of the
