SINGAPORE: Firms within the development business and the transportation and storage business are being urged to conduct a voluntary security time-out from Oct 5 to 18, following seven office deaths since final month.
In a Fb submit on Monday (Oct 5), the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) mentioned that the latest deaths within the two industries had been a “grave reminder that office security and well being can’t be taken with no consideration”.
MOM requested corporations to assessment their office security and well being procedures, strengthen threat controls and tackle security gaps.
It added that exact consideration must be paid to the secure use of concrete pumps, and measures to stop automobiles from rolling away, together with guaranteeing that handbrakes are engaged earlier than drivers go away their automobiles and utilizing wheel chocks the place applicable.
Alongside the voluntary security time-out, MOM mentioned that it could introduce enhanced enforcement measures in each industries from Oct 5 to Nov 4, “to strengthen deterrence and accountability”.
The composition high-quality for first-time offences will improve from S$2,000 (about US$1,550) to S$3,000, with increased fines for repeat or extra severe offences.
The minimal period of stop-work orders from additionally improve from 5 weeks to eight weeks, whereas corporations could also be barred from hiring new migrant staff for 3 months in “egregious instances” involving severe office security lapses that end in deadly or severe accidents.
The identical enhanced measures had been launched nationwide in June, following a spate of office deaths then. They had been in place from Jun 26 to Jul 31.