Workplace Safety and Health (General Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 27 Feb 2024

No. S 119

Workplace Safety and Health Act 2006

Workplace Safety and Health
(General Provisions) (Amendment)
Regulations 2024

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 65 of the Workplace Safety and Health Act 2006, the Minister for Manpower makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Workplace Safety and Health (General Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 and come into operation on 1 March 2024.

New regulations 38A and 38B

2. In the Workplace Safety and Health (General Provisions) Regulations (Rg 1), after regulation 38, insert —

“Definitions for purposes of regulation 38B

38A. In regulation 38B —

“high-risk industry” means business activities classified under the SSIC classification in any of the following categories:

(a)	construction;
(b)	manufacturing;
(c)	marine;
(d)	transport and storage;

“regulated person” means a person that carries on a business in Singapore, the general nature of which is or includes a high‑risk industry;

“relevant course” means the Top Executive Workplace Safety and Health Programme conducted by a training provider acceptable to the Commissioner;

“specified officer” means —

(a)	in relation to a business carried on by a body corporate (including a limited liability partnership) — the chief executive officer, an executive director or a similar officer of the body corporate;
(b)	in relation to a business carried on by an individual or a partnership — the individual or each partner, as applicable; or
(c)	in relation to a business carried on by an unincorporated association (other than a partnership) — the president or each member of the governing body of the unincorporated association, or any person holding a position analogous to that of the president or member of the governing body;

“SSIC classification” means the Singapore Standard Industrial Classification that is established by the Department of Statistics of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, as updated from time to time.

Executive workplace safety and health course

38B.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) (as applicable), every regulated person must ensure that, at all times, at least one specified officer of the regulated person has successfully completed a relevant course.

(2) Where the only or last remaining specified officer of a regulated person who has successfully completed a relevant course ceases to be a specified officer of the regulated person, the regulated person must ensure compliance with paragraph (1) within 3 months after the date of that cessation.

(3) If a person commences a business in a high‑risk industry on or after 1 March 2024, that person must ensure compliance with paragraph (1) within 3 months after the date of commencing the business.

(4) A regulated person that contravenes paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20,000 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $1,000 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 463/2009; S 609/2009; S 517/2011; S 277/2014; S 989/2022]

Made on 27 February 2024.

JEFFREY SIOW CHEN SIANG

Second Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[HQ/Legis/WSHA/SL/Mar2024; AG/LEGIS/SL/354A/2020/5 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 65(8) of the Workplace Safety and Health Act 2006).

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