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WSH SMS Regulations 2009 Interpretation

Singapore Workplace Safety & Health  (Safety and Health Management System and Auditing) Regulations 2009 stipulate that every workplace which falls under any of the workplaces category in the Second Schedule is require to implement a safety and health management system for the purpose of ensuring the safety and health of persons at work .

Excerpts taken from the SECOND SCHEDULE

SECOND SCHEDULE

Regulation 8(1)

WORKPLACES TO IMPLEMENT SAFETY AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

1. Any premises which is a worksite.

2. Any premises which is a shipyard.

3. Any factory engaged in the manufacturing of fabricated metal products, machinery or equipment and in which 100 or more persons are employed.

4. Any factory engaged in the processing or manufacturing of petroleum, petroleum products, petrochemicals or petrochemical products.

5. Any premises where the bulk storage of toxic or flammable liquid is carried on by way of trade or for the purpose of gain and which has a storage capacity of 5,000 or more cubic metres for such toxic or flammable liquid.

6. Any factory engaged in the manufacturing of —

(a) fluorine, chlorine, hydrogen fluoride or carbon monoxide; and

(b) synthetic polymers.

7. Any factory engaged in the manufacturing of pharmaceutical products or their intermediates.

8. Any factory engaged in the manufacturing of semiconductor wafers.

If your organization falls in any of the 

In addition Regulation 9 of the regulation also stipulate the requirement of the duty of the occupier of any workplace specified in the Third Schedule to appoint a workplace safety and health auditor to audit the safety and health management system of the workplace at a frequency as specified in that Schedule.

To learn more about the Workplace Safety and Health (Safety and Health Management System and Auditing) Regulations 2009, check out the Singapore Statues Online

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