Workplace Safety and Health (Incident Reporting) Regulations

Workplace Safety and Health Act

(Chapter 354A, Sections 27 and 65)

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G.N. No. S 136/2006

REVISED EDITION 2007

(1st October 2007)

[1st March 2006]

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Workplace Safety and Health (Incident Reporting) Regulations.

Application

2. These Regulations shall apply to every workplace, whether or not it is a workplace specified in the First Schedule to the Act.

Definitions

3. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“accident” means any unintended event which causes bodily injury to a person, but does not include any bodily injury sustained by a person —

(a)	in the course of commuting to or from his workplace using a mode of transport provided by his employer;
(b)	as a result of his act or default while driving any vehicle on a public road in the course of his work; or
(c)	in the course of his work as a domestic worker;

“domestic worker” means any person employed in or in connection with the domestic services of any private premises;

“vehicle” means any vehicle (whether mechanically propelled or otherwise) used for the conveyance of goods or passengers.

[G.N. No. S 136/2006]

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