Singapore legislation

Section 12

of Workplace Safety and Health Act 2006

Section 12

Duties of employers

(1)

It is the duty of every employer to take, so far as is reasonably practicable, such measures as are necessary to ensure the safety and health of the employer’s employees at work.

(2)

It is the duty of every employer to take, so far as is reasonably practicable, such measures as are necessary to ensure the safety and health of persons (not being the employer’s employees) who may be affected by any undertaking carried on by the employer in the workplace.

(3)

For the purposes of subsection (1), the measures necessary to ensure the safety and health of persons at work include —

(a)

providing and maintaining for those persons a work environment which is safe, without risk to health, and adequate as regards facilities and arrangements for their welfare at work;

(b)

ensuring that adequate safety measures are taken in respect of any machinery, equipment, plant, article or process used by those persons;

(c)

ensuring that those persons are not exposed to hazards arising out of the arrangement, disposal, manipulation, organisation, processing, storage, transport, working or use of things —

(i)

in their workplace; or

(ii)

near their workplace and under the control of the employer;

(d)

developing and implementing procedures for dealing with emergencies that may arise while those persons are at work; and

(e)

ensuring that those persons at work have adequate instruction, information, training and supervision as is necessary for them to perform their work.

(4)

Every employer must, where required by the regulations, give to persons (not being the employer’s employees) the prescribed information about such aspects of the way in which the employer conducts the employer’s undertaking as might affect their safety or health while those persons are at the employer’s workplace.

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