Gaye Ellis

Singapore Takes Action for Construction Deaths

Since 2010, more than a hundred lives were taken in a construction site. With the increase of deaths every year, private institutes and even the government had taken great measures to prevent any more injuries and lessen the number of victims.

In a seminar attended by countless construction-related businesses and prominent individuals in the industry including Axis Capital Group, a Singaporean-based company which sells and rents capital heavy equipment across Asia, the government along with private institutions and public agencies are taking drastic steps to solve this issue.

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.