PART 1 | Citation and commencement |
| 1. These Regulations are the Workplace Safety and Health (COVID-19 Safe Workplace) Regulations 2021 and come into operation on 1 January 2022. |
2.—(1) These Regulations do not apply to or in relation to any place of residence of any of the following:| (a) | a self‑employed person, an employer or a principal when and at which he or she is carrying on his or her trade, business, profession or undertaking; | | (b) | an employee of an employer when and at which the employee performs work in connection with his or her employer’s trade, business, profession or undertaking; | | (c) | a worker of a principal when and at which the worker performs work in connection with his or her principal’s trade, business, profession or undertaking. |
(2) These Regulations do not apply to or in relation to any of the following whose work premises are defined premises:| (a) | any employer, and any employee of an employer; | | (b) | any principal, and any worker of a principal; | | (c) | any self‑employed person. |
[S 328/2022 wef 26/04/2022] |
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), defined premises are any of the following:| (a) | a hospital or clinic, or other healthcare institution or facility for the reception, lodging, treatment or care of individuals requiring medical treatment; | | (b) | an early childhood development centre specified in a licence granted under the Early Childhood Development Centres Act 2017 to operate the early childhood development centre; | | (c) | a school in receipt of grant‑in‑aid under the Education (Grant‑in‑Aid) Regulations (Rg 3); | | (d) | a school specified in paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the Compulsory Education (Exemption) Order (O 1); | | (e) | a school specified in Part II of the Schedule to the Education Endowment and Savings Schemes (Edusave Pupils Fund) Regulations (Rg 1); | | (f) | any of the following universities:| (i) | National University of Singapore; | | (ii) | Nanyang Technological University; | | (iii) | Singapore Institute of Technology; | | (iv) | Singapore Management University; | | (v) | Singapore University of Social Sciences; | | (vi) | Singapore University of Technology and Design. |
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(4) To avoid doubt, these Regulations do not apply to prevent or restrict —| (a) | the Government or any public body doing or omitting to do anything in the performance of any function, the exercise of any power or the discharge of any duty of the Government or public body (as the case may be) under law; or | | (b) | any individual acting under the authority or direction of the Government or any public body in the performance of any function, the exercise of any power or the discharge of any duty of the Government or public body (as the case may be) under law. |
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| (5) To avoid doubt, nothing in regulations 17A and 18 derogates from the effect of any other written law requiring the wearing of a face covering for the purpose of ensuring food hygiene. [S 701/2022 wef 29/08/2022] |
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3.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —“approved test” means any of the following tests carried out in Singapore in relation to an individual, the purpose of which is to test for the presence of SARS‑CoV‑2 in that individual:| (a) | a PCR test; | | (b) | an antigen rapid test; |
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“Control Order” means any of the following subsidiary legislation:| (a) | the COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) (Control Order) Regulations 2020 (G.N. No. S 254/2020); | | (b) | the COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) (Foreign Employee Dormitories — Control Order) Regulations 2020 (G.N. No. S 781/2020); | | (c) | the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) (Reopening — Control Order) Regulations 2022 (G.N. No. S 179/2022); [S 182/2022 wef 15/03/2022] | | (d) | [Deleted by S 182/2022 wef 15/03/2022] | | (e) | [Deleted by S 182/2022 wef 15/03/2022] | | (f) | [Deleted by S 182/2022 wef 15/03/2022] |
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| “COVID‑19” means the infectious disease known as Coronavirus Disease 2019; |
| “mask-on zone” has the meaning given by regulation 2 of the COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) (Reopening — Control Order) Regulations 2022; [S 701/2022 wef 29/08/2022] |
| “movement control measure” has the meaning given by paragraph (2); |
| “occupy”, in relation to any premises or part of any premises, includes the use, temporarily or otherwise, of the premises or part thereof for the purpose of any trade, business, profession or undertaking of the occupier; |
| “open-air area” has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) (Reopening — Control Order) Regulations 2022; [S 227/2022 wef 29/03/2022] |
| “PCR test” means a polymerase chain reaction test carried out in Singapore in relation to an individual, the purpose of which is to test for the presence of SARS‑CoV‑2 in that individual; |
“place of residence”, for an individual, means —| (a) | a house or flat in Singapore that is the individual’s home in Singapore; or | | (b) | any other premises in Singapore that the individual is ordinarily resident at when in Singapore, such as a room, or a partitioned‑off space for sleeping, that is —| (i) | in a hotel, hostel, guesthouse, serviced apartment or student dormitory in Singapore; or | | (ii) | in any other premises in Singapore that provides sleeping facilities and residential accommodation (whether or not other accommodation is also provided), |
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| but not any of the following premises: |
| (c) | any hospital or nursing home; | | (d) | any boarding premises that is the subject of a licence under the Foreign Employee Dormitories Act 2015 or is providing accommodation to 7 or more foreign employees, including any place converted (temporarily or otherwise) for use as accommodation for 7 or more foreign employees; | | (e) | any prison where an individual is incarcerated to serve a sentence of imprisonment, any other place where a prisoner may serve his or her sentence of imprisonment outside of a prison; | | (f) | any premises for the purposes of detaining individuals serving orders of detention under any written law, whether or not for their rehabilitation or safety; |
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“work premises”, in relation to an employer, a principal or a self‑employed person, means any premises —| (a) | that the employer, principal or self‑employed person (as the case may be) occupies for the purpose of any trade, business, profession or undertaking of the employer, principal or self‑employed person, as the case may be; or | | (b) | in which an employee of the employer or a worker of the principal, or the self‑employed person (as the case may be) ordinarily performs or carries out work for the purpose of any trade, business, profession or undertaking of the employer, principal or self‑employed person, |
| and includes any canteen or recreational facility which is comprised in or adjacent to the work premises and is provided for use solely by employees or workers or both, and no others; |
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“worker”, in relation to a principal, means an individual who is —| (a) | a contractor engaged by the principal otherwise than under a contract of service; | | (b) | a direct or an indirect subcontractor engaged by a contractor mentioned in paragraph (a); or | | (c) | an employee employed by such a contractor or subcontractor in paragraph (a) or (b), |
| when working under the direction of the principal as to the manner in which the work is carried out. |
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(2) In these Regulations, an individual is regarded as subject to a movement control measure if the individual is subject to a requirement that the individual must not leave any place because of —| (a) | an order made under regulation 3(1) of the Infectious Diseases (COVID‑19 — Stay Orders) Regulations 2020 (G.N. No. S 182/2020); or [S 79/2022 wef 07/02/2022] | | (b) | [Deleted by S 79/2022 wef 07/02/2022] | | (c) | an order under section 15 or 17 of the Infectious Diseases Act 1976 relating to COVID‑19. |
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| (3) [Deleted by S 328/2022 wef 26/04/2022] |
| (4) [Deleted by S 328/2022 wef 26/04/2022] |
| (5) In reckoning a period for the purposes of these Regulations, days must be counted consecutively, whether or not a public holiday. |
| (6) [Deleted by S 328/2022 wef 26/04/2022] |
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| 4. [Deleted by S 328/2022 wef 26/04/2022] |
| 5. [Deleted by S 328/2022 wef 26/04/2022] |
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