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Builders unveil action plans to cut workplace deaths
Design for Safety rules to be gazetted next month and to take effect next year
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Mindy Tan
Published Tue, Jul 7, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Singapore
DESIGN for Safety (DfS) regulations are ready to be gazetted under the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Act by August 2015 and will take effect a year later, as the construction industry reaffirms its commitment to reduce the workplace fatality rate to less than 1.8 per 100,000 workers by 2018.
Since the WSH Council launched a sectoral plan to reduce the construction sector fatality rate in 2010, the figure has dropped from 8.1 to 5.5 per 100,000 workers in 2014, following a spike to 7.2 per 100,000 workers in 2013.
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