Workplace Safety and Health Act

Excerpt from MOM website

The Workplace Safety & Health Act: What it covers

The Workplace Safety and Health Act is an essential part of the new framework to cultivate good safety habits in all individuals so as to engender a strong safety culture in our workplace.It requires stakeholders to take reasonably practicable measures to ensure the safety and health of workers and other people that are affected by the work being carried out.

The Occupational Safety & Health framework

The three guiding principles that underpin the new Occupational Safety & Health framework are:

1. Reducing risks at source by requiring all stakeholders to eliminate or minimise the risks they create;
2. Instilling greater ownership of safety and health outcomes by industry; and
3. Preventing accidents through higher penalties for poor safety management

About the Workplace Safety & Health Act

The Workplace Safety and Health Act is an essential part of the Workplace Safety and Health framework. The Act has four key features:

1. It places the responsibility for workplace safety on all stakeholders along lines of control at the workplace
2. It focuses on Workplace Safety & Health systems and outcomes, rather than merely on compliance
3. It facilitates effective enforcement through the issuance of remedial orders
4. To prevent accidents at the source, it issues higher penalties for non-compliance and risky behaviour.

What the Act covers:

1. Workplaces covered by Workplace Safety & Health Act
2. Responsibilities of Stakeholders
3. Hazardous Substances
4. Machinery & equipment