iWorkHealth
Your companies can use iWorkHealth, a health assessment tool to identify common workplace stressors.
It should not be used for medical diagnostic or treatment purposes. It is not a substitute for medical advice of one’s state of health.
All individual information provided in the survey are kept confidential and will only be published as aggregated statistics.
It was developed by the Ministry of Manpower’s Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Institute, in partnership with the WSH Council, Institute of Mental Health, Changi General Hospital and Health Promotion Board.
For more information you can read iWorkHealth: An instrument to identify workplace psychosocial risk factorsfor a multi-ethnic Asian working population.
Guide to generate the aggregated report of your company workplace stressor.
WSH Ownership
Building ownership of workplace safety and health (WSH) among your employees is a key strategy to sustained WSH improvements.
WSH Institute and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, with support from WSH Council, collaborated on a multi-year study to understand how individual, cultural and organisational factors can affect organisational WSH Ownership in Singapore.
WSH Ownership Model
An employee centric model made up of multi-levels of WSH ownership at the individual, cultural and organizational level was conceptualised. It is made up of the following three constructs:
- Safety climate: Employees’ shared perceptions of policies, procedures and practices relating to safety.
- Safety citizenship: Behaviours of employees that promote cooperation and helpfulness toward safety in the organisation.
- Social contract: The voluntary and informal agreement between management, supervisors and workers.
Read a case study - understanding the demonstration of workplace safety and health ownership across 5 industries in Singapore.
iOwnWSH to identify WSH ownership
Through the research collaboration, an online company administered assessment tool called iOwnWSH for companies to identify WSH Ownership in the organisation was developed.
Find out more about iOwnWSH and how to use it.
The extent of the costs of a WSH incident is often not fully understood. There are immediate costs such as loss of production and hospitalisation costs of injured workers. There are also other costs that are not immediately felt, such as hiring and training of new workers to replace the injured workers, as well as damage to your company's reputation leading to loss of future revenue.
Having a cost calculator will help you estimate the costs of a workplace incident comprehensively and better understand the cost effectiveness of having WSH interventions in place to prevent workplace incidents from happening.
How to use it?
- There are 6 sections detailing the different types of costs that may arise during and after a workplace incident.
- Fill in the details in the fields with a blue background to the best of your knowledge. Skip the items that are not applicable to you.
You will see the estimated total cost of the incident after completing all 6 sections.
| Type of incident cost |
Cost ($) |
| Section 1: Immediate Costs |
7,600 |
Section 2: Investigation Costs
|
1,200 |
| Section 3: Damage Costs |
450 |
Section 4: Workers Replacement Costs
|
2,300 |
Section 5: Productivity Costs
|
800 |
Section 6: Other Costs
|
16,500 |
| Total Cost |
28,850 |
Download a copy of the Incident Cost Calculator.
WSH Technology is a key enabler to achieving the strategic outcomes in WSH 2028. The deployment of suitable WSH technology can:
- Remove workers from risky activities
- Improve workers’ situational awareness
- Deter risky behaviours and reduce human error
- Assess and alert on ill health that may increase risk of work accidents
Find out more about WSH Technology.
