Singapore legislation

Section 10

of Radiation Protection Act 2007

Section 10

Duties of licensees to employees

(1)

Every licensee must provide and maintain, so far as is practicable, for the licensee’s employees who are exposed or likely to be exposed to radiations a working environment that is safe and without risks to health.

(2)

Without limiting subsection (1), every licensee must —

(a)

protect or cause to be protected all of the licensee’s employees from exposure to radiations;

(b)

provide such information, instruction, training and supervision to such employees as are necessary to enable the employees to perform their work in a manner that is safe and without risks to health;

(c)

submit such particulars as the Director‑General may require regarding each of the licensee’s employees who is likely to be exposed to any radiation;

(d)

provide each of the licensee’s employees such monitoring equipment or devices as may be prescribed and require all such employees to wear these prescribed personnel monitoring equipment and devices; and

(e)

provide all of the licensee’s employees with prescribed medical examinations by such registered medical practitioners as the Director‑General may approve.

(3)

The registered medical practitioners performing the medical examinations under subsection (2)(e) must give notice to the Director‑General, in such form and manner as the Director‑General may require, of all employees of a licensee whose health is affected, or is reasonably suspected to be affected, by radiations.

(4)

If the Director‑General is satisfied that it is detrimental to the health of any employee of a licensee if the employee continues to be exposed to radiations, the licensee must not permit or require that employee —

(a)

to perform any duty which will or is likely to cause that employee to be further exposed to radiations; or

(b)

to work in any place where that employee will be or is likely to be further exposed to radiations.

(5)

In this section —

(a)

“employee”, in relation to a licensee, includes —

(i)

an independent contractor engaged by the licensee; and

(ii)

any employee of an independent contractor engaged by the licensee; and

(b)

the duties of a licensee extend to any independent contractor engaged by the licensee and to the employees of the independent contractor, in relation to matters over which the licensee —

(i)

has control; or

(ii)

would have had control but for any agreement between the licensee and the independent contractor to the contrary.[9

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