Workplace Safety and Health (Construction) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 11 Dec 2009

No. S 608

Workplace Safety and Health Act

(Chapter 354A)

Workplace Safety and Health
(Construction) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

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

Citation and commencement

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

Deletion of regulation 4

2. Regulation 4 of the Workplace Safety and Health (Construction) Regulations 2007 (G.N. No. S 663/2007) (referred to hereinafter as the principal Regulations) is deleted.

Transitional provisions

3.—(1) Every person who, immediately before 1st March 2010, was a workplace safety and health auditor appointed under the repealed regulation 4 of the principal Regulations shall continue in such appointment as if he were approved as a workplace safety and health auditor under Part II of the Workplace Safety and Health (Safety and Health Management System and Auditing) Regulations 2009 (G.N. No. S 607/2009), except that his appointment shall expire on 1st September 2010.

(2) Where before 1st March 2010 and pursuant to the repealed regulation 4(2) of the principal Regulations, the occupier of a worksite referred to in that regulation had a duty to audit the safety and health management system of the worksite within the time specified in that regulation, and that time falls on or after 1st March 2010, then —

(a)	regulation 9 of the Workplace Safety and Health (Safety and Health Management System and Auditing) Regulations 2009 (G.N. No. S 607/2009) shall apply to the occupier of the worksite as if he were the occupier of a workplace specified in the Third Schedule to those Regulations; and
(b)	the duty of the occupier under regulation 9(1) of the Workplace Safety and Health (Safety and Health Management System and Auditing) Regulations 2009 to have the workplace audited at the frequency as specified in the Third Schedule to those Regulations shall commence on the date on which the audit is required to be conducted under the repealed regulation 4(2) of the principal Regulations.

(3) Where before 1st March 2010 and pursuant to the repealed regulation 4(3) of the principal Regulations, the occupier of a worksite referred to in that regulation had a duty to conduct a review of the safety and health management system of the worksite within the time specified in that regulation, and that time falls on or after 1st March 2010, then —

(a)

regulation 10 of the Workplace Safety and Health (Safety and Health Management System and Auditing) Regulations 2009 shall apply to the occupier of the worksite as if he were the occupier of a workplace specified in the Fourth Schedule to those Regulations; and

(b)

the duty of the occupier under regulation 10(1) of the Workplace Safety and Health (Safety and Health Management System and Auditing) Regulations 2009 to conduct an internal review of safety and health management system of the workplace at the frequency as specified in the Fourth Schedule to those Regulations shall commence on the date on which the review is required to be conducted under the repealed regulation 4(3)(a) of the principal Regulations.

Made this 4th day of December 2009.

LOH KHUM YEAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[C010-034; AG/LEG/SL/354A/2006/1 Vol. 5]

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

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