Singapore legislation
Regulation 20
Regulation 20
Design by professional engineer
Subregulation 1
It shall be the duty of the responsible person to ensure that the requirements of paragraphs (2) and (3) are complied with.
Subregulation 2
Subject to regulation 19(6) and (7), a work platform and any support thereof in a workplace shall be constructed in accordance with the design and drawings of a professional engineer where the work platform is used —
to provide footing for more than 2 persons in each bay; or
to support tools or materials exceeding 25 kgf in each bay.
Subregulation 3
Subject to regulation 19(8)(b), where a metal scaffold is used in a workplace to support more than 4 persons in any bay, the scaffold shall be constructed in accordance with the design and drawings of a professional engineer.
Subregulation 4
It shall be the duty of a professional engineer who designs any work platform or support referred to in paragraph (2) or any metal scaffold referred to in paragraph (3) to —
take, so far as is reasonably practicable, such measures to ensure that his design can be executed safely by any person who constructs or uses the work platform, support or metal scaffold according to his design; and
provide to any person who constructs or is to construct the work platform, support or metal scaffold, all design documentation (including all relevant calculations, drawings and construction procedures) as is necessary to facilitate the proper construction of the work platform, support or metal scaffold according to his design.
Subregulation 5
It shall be the duty of the occupier of the workplace in which a scaffold is erected or installed to ensure that no work platform or support referred to in paragraph (2) or metal scaffold referred to in paragraph (3) is used unless the design and drawings certified by the professional engineer are kept available at the workplace for inspection by an inspector.
Subregulation 6
[Deleted by S 434/2024 wef 01/06/2024]