Singapore legislation

Regulation 5

of Workplace Safety and Health (General Provisions) Regulations

Regulation 5

Ventilation

Amended byS 517/2011 wef 10/09/2011S 517/2011 wef 10/09/2011S 517/2011 wef 10/09/2011S 517/2011 wef 10/09/2011

Subregulation 1

Amended byS 517/2011 wef 10/09/2011

Subject to paragraph (3), it shall be the duty of the occupier of a workplace to ensure that every workroom of the workplace is provided with adequate ventilation.

Subregulation 2

Amended byS 517/2011 wef 10/09/2011S 517/2011 wef 10/09/2011

Where gases, vapours or other impurities are generated in the course of any process or work carried out in a workplace which may be injurious to health, it shall be the duty of the occupier of the workplace to provide effective and suitable ventilation —

(a)

for securing and maintaining the circulation of fresh air in the workplace; and

(b)

to render harmless, so far as is reasonably practicable, all such gases, vapours or other impurities.

Subregulation 3

Amended byS 517/2011 wef 10/09/2011

This regulation shall not apply to any workplace where it is impracticable to make provision for adequate ventilation and where suitable air-supplied breathing apparatus is provided to persons at work in the workplace.

Regulation 5 — Workplace Safety and Health (General Provisions) Regulations