Singapore legislation

Regulation 8

of Workplace Safety and Health (First-Aid) Regulations

Regulation 8

Offences

Amended byS 434/2024 wef 01/06/2024

Subregulation 1

An occupier of a workplace who, without reasonable excuse, fails to ensure that regulation 4(1), (2), (3) or (4), 5(1), (2), (3) or (5), 6 or 7(1) or (2) is complied with in relation to the workplace shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction —

(a)

to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both; or

(b)

if the occupier of the workplace is a repeat offender, to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both.

Subregulation 2

A first-aider who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes regulation 5(4) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000.

Subregulation 3

In paragraph (1), “repeat offender”, in relation to an offence, means an occupier of a workplace who —

(a)

is convicted, or found guilty, of an offence specified in the first column of the Schedule (called the current offence); and

(b)

has been convicted, or found guilty, of an offence specified opposite the current offence in the second column of that Schedule, 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.

Regulation 8 — Workplace Safety and Health (First-Aid) Regulations