Singapore legislation

Clause 12

Duties of employers

(1)

It shall be 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 his employees at work.

(2)

It shall be 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 his employees) who may be affected by any undertaking carried on by him 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 the person at work has adequate instruction, information, training and supervision as is necessary for that person to perform his work.

(4)

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

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