Singapore legislation

Regulation 49

of Workplace Safety and Health (Scaffolds) Regulations 2011

Regulation 49

Personal protective equipment for users of suspended scaffolds

Subregulation 1

It shall be the duty of —

(a)

the employer of any person who uses or is to use any suspended scaffold in a workplace; or

(b)

the principal under whose direction any person uses or is to use any suspended scaffold in a workplace,to provide to the person —

(i)

a safety harness attached with a shock absorbing device; and

(ii)

sufficient and secured anchorage by means of an independent life line or other equally effective means.

Subregulation 2

It shall be the duty of the person who uses any suspended scaffold in a workplace to use the safety harness attached with a shock absorbing device provided to him.

Subregulation 3

[Deleted by S 434/2024 wef 01/06/2024]