Singapore legislation
Regulation 8
of Workplace Safety and Health (Construction) Regulations 2007
Regulation 8
Powers of workplace safety and health co-ordinator
A workplace safety and health co-ordinator shall, for the purposes of discharging his duties under regulation 7, have the power to do all or any of the following:
to enter, inspect and examine at any reasonable time the worksite;
to inspect and examine any machinery, equipment, plant, installation or article in the worksite;
to require the production of worksite records, certificates, notices and documents kept or required to be kept under the Act, including any other relevant document, and to inspect and examine any of them;
to make such examination and inquiry of the worksite and of any person at work at that worksite as may be necessary to execute his duties;
to assess the level of noise, illumination, heat or harmful or hazardous substances in the worksite and the exposure levels of persons at work therein; and
to investigate any accident, dangerous occurrence or occupational disease that occurred within the worksite.