Sharing on MOM Heightened Safety Period

and Enhanced Penalties

 15 Feb 2023
 Statistics
No. Of Fatalities

Construction’s Fatal & Major injury

Rate down from 1.6 to 0.3

Annualized Major Injury Rate increased up No improvement in the monthly

from 16.8 to 18.7 (All) average fatalities in Transport &
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 5 Fatalities from start of 2023 till date

12 Jan - 37-year-old
painter from Myanmar fell 19 Jan - A pump attendant 31 Jan - Prime 2 Feb - 53-year-old
while working on an open was hit by a car exiting a mover driver dies Singaporean man who was
ledge and landed in the petrol station. after truck falls into unloading a shipment of glass
basement. sea at Keppel doors with two other workers
Terminal. at a warehouse in Alexandra
died from his injuries after
11 Feb - Harbour pilot from PSA Marine nine glass doors toppled on
dies after falling into waters off Singapore's the three of them.
Kusu Island.
 Enhanced Penalties for WSH
Offences
 Stiffer Penalties with effect from 14 Jun 2022

 Composition fines will be doubled, up to a maximum of $5,000.

 Companies that had fatal or major injuries must engage external auditors to
conduct a thorough review of their system of WSH controls and implement
measures to prevent recurrence.
 Companies issued with Stop Work Order (SWO) must engage external
auditors to conduct a thorough review of their WSH management systems
before the SWO can be lifted Source: MOM
 Extension of Heightened Safety Period (HSP)
1 March 2023 – 31 May 2023
Current Measures (1 Sep 2022 to 28 Feb 2023)

Debar companies from employing new foreign employees for up to 3 months, and required Chief
Executive to personally account to MOM and take responsibility for rectification if serious WSH lapses
are found following after serious or fatal accidents
STO to review safety procedures applies to all companies in construction, manufacturing, transportation
& storage, the marine & process industries and sectors using heavy or industrial vehicles.

New harmonized disqualification criteria across public sector construction tenders. Contractors with
poor WSH performance will be temporarily disqualified from these tenders

Lower threshold for issuing demerit points, resulting in companies with consistently poor WSH
performance being debarred from employing new foreign employees for up to two years.
Source: MOM
MOM : WSH Demerit Points

Source: MOM
 Extension of The
Heightened Safety Period
New Additional Measures (1 Mar to 31 May 2023)

Maximum fine for breaches of WSH rules under WSH Regulation that could result in death or serious
injury will be raised from S$20,000 to S$50,000.

For companies found to have WSH lapses following a serious or fatal workplace accident, the CEO or
board director must attend a half-day training course in person.

Empowering workers and supervisors to raise WSH issues and stop work if they feel that working
conditions are unsafe. If WSH issues persists, after it was highlighted to supervisors or management,
workers and supervisors should bring it to MOM attention.
Bite-sized WSH resources will be made available from May 2023 by The WSH Council, to support SMEs
in instilling a stronger safe operations culture

Source: MOM
MOM Actions Taken Against Errant
Contractors During The Heightened
Safety Period

15 companies 48 stop-work orders

More than 760
temporarily barred issued to errant
composition fines issued
from hiring foreign companies so far
workers
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 Recommendations

• Regular review on current work procedures on adequacy of safety

provisions.
• Conduct additional STO, as practicable and focus on high risk
activities.
• Encourage suppliers, contractors to conduct STO to review their work
procedures on adequacy of safety provisions. (e.g. TMP, operation,
maintenance, repair of mobile machinery, etc.)
Thank you