Mr Dinesh also noted an uptick in workplace fatalities between April and July, particularly in June, which “prompted considerable reflection among the WSH Council and all of us involved in workplace safety”.
In June, MOM introduced enhanced workplace safety measures with the support of the Multi-Agency Workplace Safety and Health Taskforce to reinforce safety practices across Singapore, he added.
The measures were announced after seven workers died in five separate workplace incidents over four weeks, and included higher fines and longer stop-work orders for companies responsible for repeat and serious lapses.
“What we are seeing is that many of these incidents are no longer confined to traditionally high-risk activities,” he said, adding that “increasingly, accidents are occurring during routine work”.
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