Singapore legislation
Clause 12
Clause 12
Amendment of Schedules
The principal Act is amended —
by deleting the First Schedule;
by renaming the existing Second Schedule as First Schedule;
by inserting, immediately after the First Schedule, the following Schedule:“SECOND SCHEDULESection 4(1)OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES1.Aniline poisoning2.Anthrax3.Arsenical poisoning4.Asbestosis5.Barotrauma6.Beryllium poisoning7.Byssinosis8.Cadmium poisoning9.Carbamate poisoning10.Compressed air illness or its sequelae, including dysbaric osteonecrosis11.Cyanide poisoning12.Diseases caused by ionizing radiation13.Diseases caused by excessive heat14.Hydrogen Sulphide poisoning15.Lead poisoning16.Leptospirosis17.Liver angiosarcoma18.Manganese poisoning19.Mercurial poisoning20.Mesothelioma21.Noise-induced deafness22.Occupational asthma23.Occupational skin cancers24.Occupational skin diseases25.Organophosphate poisoning26.Phosphorus poisoning27.Poisoning by benzene or a homologue of benzene28.Poisoning by carbon monoxide gas29.Poisoning by carbon disulphide30.Poisoning by oxides of nitrogen31.Poisoning from halogen derivatives of hydrocarbon compounds32.Musculoskeletal disorders of the upper limb33.Silicosis34.Toxic anaemia35.Toxic hepatitis.”;
by deleting the Third Schedule;
by renaming the existing Fourth Schedule as Third Schedule; and
by inserting, immediately after the Third Schedule, the following Schedule:“FOURTH SCHEDULESection 5(2)Workplaces Specified As Factories
1. Any premises using an assembly-line manufacturing process in connection with the manufacturing, for the purposes of trade or gain, of any goods or products using mechanical power, not being a restaurant or kitchen.
2. Any premises used for the manufacturing, for the purposes of trade or gain, of fabricated metal products, machinery or equipment.
3. Any premises used for the manufacturing, for the purposes of trade or gain, of wood products using mechanical power.
4. Any premises used for the production of gas for commercial sale.
5. Any premises used for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products or its intermediates.
6. Any premises where the printing by letter press, offset, lithography, photogravure, rotogravure or other similar process, or the binding of such printed materials, is carried out.
7. Any premises where mechanical power is used in connection with the sorting, packing, handling or storing of articles.
8. Any premises used for the processing or manufacturing of flammable, corrosive or toxic substances, including petroleum, petroleum products, petrochemical or petrochemical products.
9. Any premises where the treatment, coating or electroplating of metal products involving the use of flammable, corrosive or toxic substances is carried out.
10. Any premises where the washing or filling of bottles, containers or vessels that contains or had contained flammable, corrosive or toxic substances is carried out, not being any premises where the filling of fuel into vehicles for their propulsion is carried out as a commercial undertaking.
11. Any premises used for the storage of gas (including liquefied gas) in a container having a storage capacity of not less than 140 cubic metres, not being any premises where the gas is stored for filling of fuel into vehicles for their propulsion as a commercial undertaking.
12. Any premises used for the bulk storage of toxic or flammable liquid (excluding liquefied gas) in a container, not being an underground container, that has a storage capacity of not less than 5,000 cubic metres.
13. Any yard (including any dock, wharf, jetty, quay and the precincts thereof) where the construction, reconstruction, repair, refitting, finishing or breaking up of ships is carried out, including the waters adjacent to any such yard where the construction, reconstruction, repair, refitting, finishing or breaking up of ships is carried out by or on behalf of the occupier of that yard.
14. Any premises where the construction, reconstruction or repair of locomotives, aircraft, vehicles or other plant for use for transport purposes is carried on as ancillary to a transport undertaking or other industrial or commercial undertaking, not being any premises used for the purpose of housing locomotives, aircraft or vehicles where only cleaning, washing, running repairs or minor adjustments are carried out.
15. Any premises where building operations or any work of engineering construction are carried out.
16. Any premises where articles are made or prepared incidentally to the carrying on of any building operations or any work of engineering construction, not being premises in which such operations or work are being carried out.
17. Any premises where work is carried out for or in connection with the generating of electrical energy for supply by way of trade or for purposes of gain.
18. Any premises where mechanical power is used for the purposes of or in connection with a water supply.
19. Any sewage works where mechanical power is used and any pumping station used in connection therewith.”.