Workplace Safety and Health (Safety and Health Management System and Auditing) Regulations 2009

No. S 607

Workplace Safety and Health Act

(Chapter 354A)

Workplace Safety and Health (Safety and Health Management System and Auditing) Regulations 2009

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 30 and 65 of the Workplace Safety and Health Act, the Minister for Manpower hereby makes the following Regulations:

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Workplace Safety and Health (Safety and Health Management System and Auditing) Regulations 2009 and shall come into operation on 1st March 2010.

Definitions

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

“auditing agency” means a company or firm that provides or desires to provide safety and health auditing services;

“imminent danger” means the existence of any condition or practice in a workplace which could reasonably be expected to cause death or serious bodily injury immediately to any person if works were to proceed in the workplace or if persons were to enter the workplace before the condition or practice was eliminated;

“shipyard” means any yard (including any dock, wharf, jetty, quay and the precincts thereof) where the construction, reconstruction, repair, refitting, finishing or breaking up of ships is carried out, and includes the waters adjacent to any such yard where the construction, reconstruction, repair, refitting, finishing or breaking up of ships is carried out by or on behalf of the occupier of that yard;

“worksite” means any premises where any building operation or works of engineering construction is or are being carried out by way of trade or for purposes of gain, whether or not by or on behalf of the Government or a statutory body, and includes any line or siding (not forming part of a railway) which is used in connection with the building operation or works of engineering construction.

Made this 4th day of December 2009.

LOH KHUM YEAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[C010-048-00007; AG/LEG/SL/354A/2006/13 Vol. 1]

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

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