Singapore legislation

Regulation 4

of Workplace Safety and Health (Scaffolds) Regulations 2011

Regulation 4

Only approved scaffold contractor to construct, erect, install, re-position, alter, maintain, repair or dismantle certain scaffolds

Subregulation 1

No person shall construct, erect, install, re-position, alter, maintain, repair or dismantle any scaffold, not being an excluded scaffold, in any workplace unless he is an approved scaffold contractor.

Subregulation 2

For the purposes of paragraph (1), “excluded scaffold” means —

(a)

a tower scaffold;

(b)

a trestle scaffold; or

(c)

a scaffold (other than a suspended scaffold, hanging scaffold or a scaffold erected on cantilever or jib supports) which, when completed and excluding the handrails and their supports at the uppermost lift of the scaffold, is less than 4 metres in height.