More than 300 leaders from the construction industry attended the Construction Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Leadership Summit 2015 on 7 July 2015.

At the Summit, 8 construction industry association leaders together with the Public Sector WSH Commitment Group and BATU reaffirmed their commitment to reduce the workplace fatality rate in the industry to less than 1.8 per 100,000 workers by 2018. To achieve that, the industry has put together the Construction Industry WSH Action Plans 2015 focusing on key areas of influence, such as Leadership, Procurement, Design for Safety and more. The associations will work together to improve the WSH performance of the construction sector.

In his speech, Guest-of-Honour, Minister for Manpower (MOM), Mr Lim Swee Say, emphasised that MOM would support the action plans with government initiatives.

GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES

WSH (Design for Safety) (DfS) Regulations that require design risks to be addressed throughout the lifecycle of the construction project are now mandatory for projects of contract value of SG$10 million and above.

Working closely with the industry to train 1,000 DfS professionals by 2018 and reviewing existing DfS courses.

Implementing the Developer & Designer Early Engagement (D2E2) programme to engage developers and designers at the earlier stages of a construction project to achieve better WSH outcomes.

With strong commitment and alignment of efforts, we can transform the entire construction process to be easier, safer and smarter for workers.”
- Minister for Manpower Mr Lim Swee Say

Construction industry association leaders together with the Public Sector WSH Commitment Group and BATU reaffirmed their commitment to reduce the workplace fatality rate