Ex-SMRT assistant engineer gets 4 weeks’ jail for causing death of 2 trainees in 2016 A severe accident happened on a rail track on 22nd March 2016. Two SMRT trainees were killed by a incoming train traveling between Tampines and Pasir Ris MRT station. Mr Lim Say Heng, a former assistant engineer with the transport operator SMRT, pleaded guilty to
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43 suspected food poisoning cases from Regent hotel banquet, Michelin-starred Summer Palace implicated The National Environment Agency (NEA) downgraded the food hygiene grade from A to C for a Michelin-starred restaurant named Summer Palace and the Regent Singapore’s banquet kitchen on 29th Jan 2018 due to the fact that 43 patrons were suspected
Workplace safety trainer jailed 10 months for forging course certificates, safety passes On 18th Jan, a workplace safety trainer was sentenced to 10 months’ jail due to the fact that he forged course certificates and safety passes for construction workers. Based on a statement from MOM, Ramanathan Thamilselvan, a trainer at Work Safe Consultants, had sold Building Construction
Worker hit by a Truck On 22 December 2017, a worker was hit by a truck while he was trying to jump onto a lorry from the back. There was a 20-foot delivery truck crashing into the back of a tipper truck which was parked right behind the lorry. As a result, the crashing caused
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Lorry driver fell off lorry bed On 11 December 2017 around 5pm, a driver was trying to load goods onto his lorry. Due to the raining weather, the lorry bed was wet during his loading time. The driver was lowering one of its sideboards but fell to the ground from a height of approximately 1.25m. The driver
Worker fatally injured after struck by falling object On 1st November 2017, a worker was carrying out housekeeping duties at the ground level of a 6-storey building under construction. A piece of timber fell and hit the worker on his head. He was conveyed to the hospital but eventually pronounced dead due to his injury.
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Tougher Penalties Against Offenders Who Flout WSH Rules Do you know that there has been changes to the Workplace Safety and Health Act in November? The maximum fine for companies that causing workers in significant danger has raised from $20,000 to $50,000. Even for companies that yet causing accidents at workplace, MOM will still take tougher