Singapore legislation
Section 72
Section 72
Safety committees
(1)
The occupier of a factory, in which 50 or more persons are for the time being employed, shall establish a safety committee on which both employees and management are represented for the purpose of keeping under review circumstances in the factory which affect or may affect the safety or health of the persons employed therein.
(2)
The functions of a safety committee at a factory shall be —
to promote co-operation in achieving and maintaining safe and healthy working conditions in the factory between the management and the persons employed by the occupier to work in the factory; and
to carry out from time to time inspections in the factory in the interests of the safety and health of the persons so employed and to inspect the scene of any accident or dangerous occurrence.
(3)
A safety committee shall be given such facilities and assistance as the committee may reasonably require for the purpose of carrying out its functions under this section.
(4)
A safety committee carrying out an inspection under this section may, on completing the inspection, make and sign a record of the inspection stating the date of the inspection, the parts of the factory inspected and anything disclosed by the inspection which in its opinion was at the date of the inspection prejudicial to the safety or health of persons employed in the factory; and the occupier shall provide a register in which any such record shall be entered.[65