Monitoring body temperature of persons at workplaces and dormitories, etc.
4.—(1)  For the purpose of identifying any person who is, or is suspected to be, a case of an infectious disease specified in the first column of the Second Schedule, a Health Officer authorised by the Director in that behalf may order any person who has the control and management of a workplace to implement a system to —
(a)monitor, and maintain a record of, the body temperature of every specified person at the workplace, for every day or part thereof that the specified person is carrying out work at the workplace, in order to determine whether such person is febrile;
(b)maintain a record of every specified person referred to in sub-paragraph (a) who —
(i)was or will be in any country specified in the second column of the Second Schedule against that infectious disease; or
(ii)was in contact with any other person who is, or is suspected to be, a case of that infectious disease; and
(c)maintain a record of the contact particulars of every person who attends at the workplace to deliver any supplies or necessaries to the workplace.
(2)  For the purpose of identifying any person who is, or is suspected to be, a case of an infectious disease specified in the first column of the Second Schedule, a Health Officer authorised by the Director in that behalf may order any person who has the control and management of a dormitory to implement a system to —
(a)monitor, and maintain a record of, the body temperature of every person who is a resident at the dormitory, for every day or part thereof that the person is a resident at the dormitory, in order to determine whether such person is febrile;
(b)maintain a record of every person referred to in sub-paragraph (a) who —
(i)was or will be in any country specified in the second column of the Second Schedule against that infectious disease; or
(ii)was in contact with any other person who is, or is suspected to be, a case of that infectious disease; and
(c)maintain a record of the contact particulars of every person who is a visitor to the dormitory.
(3)  An order under paragraph (1) or (2) may be issued (as the case may be) in respect of —
(a)a specific workplace or dormitory;
(b)all workplaces or dormitories within a defined geographical location; or
(c)all workplaces operated for the purposes of a certain industry or sector of the industry.
(4)  Nothing in this regulation shall prevent any premises from being considered both a workplace and a dormitory for the purposes of this regulation.
(5)  The person who has the control and management of a workplace or dormitory referred to in paragraph (1) or (2) shall monitor, and maintain records of, the body temperature of every person referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or (2)(a) (as the case may be) in such manner, in such form and for such period of time as the Health Officer may, in the order, specify.
(6)  Where a person referred to paragraph (1)(b) or (2)(b) is found to be febrile whilst at the workplace or dormitory within 10 days of —
(a)his return from any country specified in the second column of the Second Schedule against the infectious disease to which the order referred to in paragraph (1) or (2) relates; or
(b)his contact with any other person who is a case of the infectious disease to which the order referred to in paragraph (1) or (2) relates,
the person who has the control and management of the workplace or dormitory (as the case may be) shall —
(i)notify the Director within 24 hours of that person being found febrile, and furnish to the Director such particulars of that person as the Director may require and which the person who has the control and management of the workplace or dormitory is able with reasonable diligence to obtain; and
(ii)make arrangements to enable that person to proceed to a hospital or other place designated by the Director for the treatment of that infectious disease.
(7)  Any person having the control and management of a workplace or dormitory who fails to comply with any provision of this regulation shall be guilty of an offence.