Singapore legislation
Regulation 9
of Workplace Safety and Health (Workplace Safety and Health Officers) Regulations
Regulation 9
Duties of workplace safety and health officer
Subregulation 1
The duties of a workplace safety and health officer appointed in respect of a workplace shall be —
to assist the occupier of the workplace or other person in charge of the workplace to identify and assess any foreseeable risk arising from the workplace or work processes therein;
to recommend to the occupier of the workplace or other person in charge of the workplace reasonably practicable measures to eliminate any foreseeable risk to any person who is at work in that workplace or may be affected by the occupier’s undertaking in the workplace;
where it is not reasonably practicable to eliminate the risk referred to in sub-paragraph (b), to recommend to the occupier of the workplace or other person in charge of the workplace —
such reasonably practicable measures to minimise the risk; and
such safe work procedures to control the risk; and
to assist the occupier of the workplace or other person in charge of the workplace to implement the measure or safe work procedure referred to in sub-paragraph (b) or (c), as the case may be.
Subregulation 2
A workplace safety and health officer who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction —
to a fine not exceeding $10,000; or
if the person is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.
Subregulation 3
In paragraph (2), “repeat offender”, in relation to an offence, means a workplace safety and health officer who —
is convicted, or found guilty, of an offence specified in the first column of the following table (called the current offence); and
has been convicted, or found guilty, of an offence specified opposite the current offence in the second column of that table, on at least one other earlier occasion within the period of 5 years immediately before the date on which the person is convicted, or found guilty, of the current offence.First columnCurrent offenceSecond columnPrevious offence1.Offence under paragraph (2) (a)the current offence; or
an offence under paragraph (2) as in force immediately before 1 June 2024