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On workers’ safety, tone is set at the top

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Raphael Lim

Raphael Lim

Published Wed, Jan 4, 2023 · 05:50 AM
    • For listed companies, ensuring a safe working environment also ties in with environmental, social and governance (ESG) responsibilities.
    • For listed companies, ensuring a safe working environment also ties in with environmental, social and governance (ESG) responsibilities. PHOTO: ST FILE

    AS BUSINESSES usher in the new year, one resolution that surely must be top of the mind would be to reduce the number of workplace fatalities, following the poor showing in 2022.

    The number of workplace fatalities in Singapore rose to 46 in 2022, the highest since 2016. In comparison, the number of workplace fatalities in 2021, 2020 and 2019 stood at 37, 30 and 39, respectively.

    This jump is not entirely surprising. Increased activity as the economy recovers and a rush to meet Covid-19 delayed timelines have probably made lapses and accidents more likely.

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