SECOND SCHEDULE
Regulations 13K and 13L
Special workplace safe management measures
Part 1
BUILDING SECTOR
1.  Daily records must be made, kept for 28 days and given on demand to the Building and Construction Authority, by the permitted enterprise about the following so as to facilitate contact tracing measures:
(a)the identity of each building sector worker, permitted enterprise worker and other visitor who enters or leaves each work site each day;
(b)the purpose for which the building sector worker, permitted enterprise worker or other visitor is entering or leaving the work site;
(c)the respective times of entering and leaving the work site.
2.  Despite the Workplace Safety and Health (COVID-19 Safe Workplace) Regulations 2021, the permitted enterprise workers who are construction workers or building elements supply workers must be grouped and deployed to work at their work site in separate groups (called in this Part segregated teams) according to —
(a)trade;
(b)building operation or activity to be carried out; and
(c)place of residence,
so as to minimise physical interaction between the workers in the different segregated teams when they are at work.
[S 982/2021 wef 01/01/2022]
3.  Despite the Workplace Safety and Health (COVID-19 Safe Workplace) Regulations 2021 and regulation 6 of the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) (Foreign Employee Dormitories — Control Order) Regulations 2020, the permitted enterprise workers who are construction workers or building elements supply workers must, as far as is reasonably practicable —
(a)be transported to and from the work site; and
(b)be allowed to take breaks at or around the work site,
only in their separate segregated teams, so as to minimise physical interaction between the workers in the different segregated teams when they are at work and during their permitted breaks at the work site.
[S 982/2021 wef 01/01/2022]
4.  In addition to the Workplace Safety and Health (COVID-19 Safe Workplace) Regulations 2021, adequate shared facilities (such as a canteen, toilet or bathroom) must be provided at the work site, and the use of these shared facilities must be controlled, so that physical interaction between the different segregated teams of construction workers and building elements supply workers, respectively, is minimised.
[S 982/2021 wef 01/01/2022]
5.  The permitted enterprise must —
(a)provide to each of its permitted enterprise workers who are construction workers or building elements supply workers suitable attire and other identifying article that may be worn when at work at the work site so as to indicate their respective segregated team, such as a coloured vest, T-shirt, armband and stickers on a helmet; and
(b)require and ensure that such attire and article in sub-paragraph (a) is worn at all times by the construction worker or building elements supply worker (as the case may be) when at the work site.
6.  Despite the Workplace Safety and Health (COVID-19 Safe Workplace) Regulations 2021, the permitted enterprise must take all other reasonably practicable steps to ensure that at the work site there is a distance of —
(a)at least 2 metres between any 2 of its construction workers or building elements supply workers if they belong to different segregated teams;
(b)at least one metre between any 2 construction workers or any 2 building elements supply workers who are members of the same segregated team; and
(c)at least one metre between a construction worker or building elements supply worker and any other individual at the work site.
[S 982/2021 wef 01/01/2022]
7.  Where meals are provided to a construction worker or building elements supply worker at a work site, the meals must be served in individually pre-packed form.
8.—(1)  In addition to regulation 6 of the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) (Foreign Employee Dormitories — Control Order) Regulations 2020, a permitted enterprise must provide or arrange to be provided private transport as described in sub-paragraph (2) to convey its permitted enterprise workers who are building sector workers holding work passes —
(a)between the workers’ respective places of residence and the work site where they are at work or to be at work; and
(b)between the work sites where they are at work.
[S 1070/2020 wef 28/12/2020]
[S 982/2021 wef 01/01/2022]
(2)  The private transport required by sub-paragraph (1) must be a passenger transport service by any motor vehicle —
(a)on roads for journeys wholly within Singapore, with no stopping points —
(i)between the building sector workers’ respective places of residence and the work site where the worker is at work or to be at work; and
(ii)between the work sites where the building sector worker works;
(b)carrying building sector workers holding work passes who are its permitted enterprise workers, and no other passengers; and
[S 1070/2020 wef 28/12/2020]
(c)requiring all passengers on board to each wear a mask when the motor vehicle is used for that service.
[S 1070/2020 wef 28/12/2020]
(d)[Deleted by S 1070/2020 wef 28/12/2020]
9.  The permitted enterprise must —
(a)assign every segregated team of construction workers or building elements supply workers (as the case may be) a particular zone of the work site to perform work and be at work; and
(b)take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure that the construction worker or building elements supply worker (as the case may be) remains within that assigned zone, to the exclusion of all others, during the course of his or her duty, except when responding to an emergency.
10.  There must be provided at least one separate area within the work site as a sick bay that is fully enclosed for the isolation of permitted enterprise workers, or other individuals visiting the work site, who are unwell.
[S 621/2021 wef 19/08/2021]
11.  Any construction worker or building elements supply worker of a permitted enterprise, or an individual who has entered the work site, must, without delay after he or she is known to be infected with COVID-19 —
(a)be isolated in a sick bay pending his or her receiving medical treatment; and
(b)be provided or caused to be provided medical treatment.
[S 621/2021 wef 19/08/2021]
12.  A permitted enterprise worker who is a construction worker or building elements supply worker and a resident of a specified dormitory must not be allowed to enter the work site if, in the period of 14 days before the intended entry, the permitted enterprise knows that one or more residents of that specified dormitory have been made subject to a movement control measure.
13.  Despite the Workplace Safety and Health (COVID-19 Safe Workplace) Regulations 2021, the permitted enterprise must have appropriate internal policies and procedures and adequate controls —
(a)to monitor and ensure the compliance by the permitted enterprise and its permitted enterprise workers who are either construction workers or building elements supply workers with the requirements in Part 3A and this Schedule;
[S 473/2020 wef 19/06/2020]
(b)to remedy without delay any instances of such non-compliance; and
(c)to conduct an adequate analysis of the risks of COVID-19 infections arising from the permitted enterprise’s business, undertaking or work and make recommendations to mitigate any risks identified to the permitted enterprise,
including appointing at least one Safe Management Officer to effectively perform the duties mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) in respect of the work site of the permitted enterprise, assisted by one or more Safe Distancing Officers for every 50 permitted enterprise workers ordinarily present at the work site.
[S 473/2020 wef 19/06/2020]
[S 982/2021 wef 01/01/2022]
14.  The permitted enterprise must, without delay, notify the Building and Construction Authority after the permitted enterprise becomes aware that a building sector worker that is a permitted enterprise worker of the permitted enterprise is diagnosed with COVID-19.
Part 2
PROCESS CONSTRUCTION, PROCESS MAINTENANCE
AND MARINE AND OFFSHORE MANUFACTURING
1.  Daily records must be made, and kept for 28 days, by the permitted enterprise about the following so as to facilitate contact tracing measures:
(a)the identity of each permitted enterprise worker and other individual who enters or leaves the work site each day;
(b)the purpose for which the permitted enterprise worker or other individual is entering or leaving the work site;
(c)the respective times of entering and leaving the work site.
2.  Despite the Workplace Safety and Health (COVID-19 Safe Workplace) Regulations 2021, the permitted enterprise workers must, as far as is reasonably practicable —
(a)be grouped and deployed to work at the work site;
(b)be transported to and from the work site; and
(c)be allowed to take breaks at or around the work site,
only in separate groups (called in this Part split teams) so as to minimise physical interaction between the workers in the different split teams when they are at work and during their permitted breaks at the work site.
[S 982/2021 wef 01/01/2022]
3.  The permitted enterprise must —
(a)provide to each of its permitted enterprise workers suitable protective gear to prevent transmission of COVID-19 where the nature of the work is identified as a risk;
(b)provide to each of its permitted enterprise workers attire and other identifying article that may be worn when at work at the work site so as to indicate their respective split teams, such as a coloured vest, T-shirt, armband and stickers on a helmet; and
(c)require and ensure that the gear, attire and article in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) are properly used (including worn) at all times by the permitted enterprise worker when at the work site.
[S 88/2021 wef 10/02/2021]
4.  Where meals are provided to permitted enterprise workers at a shipyard, the meals must be served in individually pre-packed form.
5.  There must be provided at least one separate area within the work site as follows:
(a)a sick bay that is fully enclosed for the isolation of permitted enterprise workers, or other individuals visiting the work site, who are unwell;
[S 621/2021 wef 19/08/2021]
(b)an area where visitors to, and permitted enterprise workers who do not ordinarily work at, the work site may enter and wait;
(c)an office area for workers employed in a managerial, secretarial, clerical or other similar capacity in connection with the relevant special works performed at the work site.
6.  Any permitted enterprise worker of the permitted enterprise or other individual entering the work site must, without delay after he or she is known to be infected with COVID-19 —
(a)be isolated in a sick bay pending his or her receiving medical treatment; and
(b)be provided or caused to be provided medical treatment.
[S 621/2021 wef 19/08/2021]
7.  A permitted enterprise worker who is a resident of a specified dormitory must not be allowed to enter the work site if in the period of 14 days before the intended entry, the permitted enterprise knows that one or more residents of the specified dormitory have been made subject to a movement control measure.
8.  Despite the Workplace Safety and Health (COVID-19 Safe Workplace) Regulations 2021, the permitted enterprise must have appropriate internal policies and procedures and adequate controls —
(a)to monitor and ensure the compliance by the permitted enterprise and its permitted enterprise workers with the requirements in Part 3A and this Schedule;
(b)to remedy without delay any instances of such non-compliance; and
(c)to conduct an adequate analysis of the risks of COVID-19 infections arising from the permitted enterprise’s business, undertaking or work and make recommendations to mitigate any risks identified to the permitted enterprise,
including appointing at least one Safe Management Officer to effectively perform the duties mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) in respect of the work site, assisted by one or more Safe Distancing Officers for every 50 permitted enterprise workers ordinarily present at the work site.
[S 428/2020 wef 02/06/2020]
[S 982/2021 wef 01/01/2022]
Part 3
SHORE-BASED PERSONNEL
1.  A permitted enterprise who is a shore-based personnel must properly wear, or must ensure that its permitted enterprise worker who is a shore-based personnel properly wears, an appropriate level of personal protection equipment when he or she is carrying out his or her duties on board a vessel in the port.
[S 16/2021 wef 15/01/2021]
[S 88/2021 wef 10/02/2021]
2.  A permitted enterprise who is a shore-based personnel must not, or must ensure that its permitted enterprise worker who is a shore-based personnel does not, do any of the following when on board a vessel in the port:
(a)remain on board for a longer period than necessary for his or her duties and does not, in any case, stay on board overnight;
(b)consume any food or drink from the ships’ stores;
(c)convene or take part in any gathering, or engage in physical interaction with any passenger or crew of the vessel, when on board except where necessary or in the course of the performance of his or her work.
[S 16/2021 wef 15/01/2021]
[S 364/2021 wef 01/06/2021]
3.  Without limiting the Workplace Safety and Health (COVID-19 Safe Workplace) Regulations 2021, a permitted enterprise whose permitted premises is a vessel in the port, being a vessel which another permitted enterprise or any permitted enterprise worker who is a shore-based personnel enters and boards to carry out work on board the vessel must provide, within the vessel, for the exclusive use of that other permitted enterprise or permitted enterprise worker when on board the vessel —
(a)at least one separate place that is fully enclosed as a rest area; and
(b)at least one toilet or bathroom and like amenity.
[S 1070/2020 wef 28/12/2020]
[S 16/2021 wef 15/01/2021]
[S 982/2021 wef 01/01/2022]
4.  A permitted enterprise who is a shore-based personnel undertaking work, or which employs or engages any permitted enterprise worker who is a shore-based personnel to do work, on board any vessel in the port, must not board any harbour craft within the port to work as a shore-based personnel if he or she has, at any time during the period of 7 days before boarding that harbour craft, worked on board a vessel that is used for sea voyages across oceans.
[S 16/2021 wef 15/01/2021]
Part 4
SPECIFIED ACCOMMODATION
AND HOSTELS
1.—(1)  Where a specified accommodation or specified hostel is or contains the place of accommodation that any isolation subject is ordered to go to and not leave under the terms of the isolation subject’s movement control measure, the person that manages and maintains, in the course of a business, the specified accommodation or specified hostel must —
(a)provide to each of its permitted enterprise workers; and
(b)take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure that each of its permitted enterprise workers properly use (including wear),
an appropriate level of personal protection equipment or other suitable protective gear to prevent transmission of COVID-19, when the permitted enterprise worker is carrying out duties which require physical interaction by the worker with —
(c)any isolation subject; or
(d)any utensil, appliance, furnishing, equipment or attire used or likely to be used or have been used by any isolation subject.
(2)  In this paragraph, “isolation subject” means an individual who is subject to a movement control measure.
[S 88/2021 wef 10/02/2021]
[S 982/2021 wef 01/01/2022]