Workplace Safety and Health (Design for Safety) Regulations 2015

No. S 428

Workplace Safety and Health Act

(CHAPTER 354A)

Workplace Safety and Health
(Design for Safety) Regulations 2015

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 65 of the Workplace Safety and Health Act, the Minister for Manpower makes the following Regulations:

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Workplace Safety and Health (Design for Safety) Regulations 2015 and come into operation on 1 August 2016.

Definitions

2.  In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“affected person”, in relation to a structure, means any individual —

(a) who carries out or is liable to be affected by the construction work for the structure;

(b) for whom the structure is a workplace, including an individual who maintains or cleans the structure, or anything in or on the structure; or

(c) who carries out or is liable to be affected by the demolition of the structure;

“construction work” means the carrying out of any building operation or work of engineering construction;

“contract sum”, in relation to any construction work, means the value specified in a contract of the works to be carried out by the contractor undertaking the construction work, including the goods and services tax payable in relation to the supply of the works;

“contractor” means a person who has entered into a contract for the purpose of carrying out any construction work;

“design‑for‑safety register” means the register referred to in regulation 7(1);

“design plan” includes drawings, building information modelling, design details, specifications, materials and bills of quantities (including specifications of articles or substances) relating to a structure, and calculations prepared for the purpose of a design;

“design risk”, in relation to a structure, means anything present or absent in the design of the structure that increases the likelihood that an affected person will suffer bodily injury when constructing, working at or demolishing the structure;

“designer” means the person who prepares a design plan relating to a structure;

“developer” means the person who undertakes a project, and, in relation to the modification of a subdivided building, includes the subsidiary management corporation of the subdivided building;

“modify”, in relation to a structure, means to extend, alter, add to or repair the structure;

“prepare”, in relation to a design plan, includes the use or endorsement of a design plan by another designer, with or without modification;

“project” means a process —

(a) undertaken by a developer for the erection or modification of one or more permanent structures on a plot of land; and

(b) in which the developer, or a person appointed by the developer —

(i) plans and manages the project;

(ii) designs all structures (including temporary structures) erected or modified under the project; and

(iii) carries out construction work;

“residual design risk” means a foreseeable design risk that is not reasonably practicable to eliminate;

“structure” means any permanent or temporary structure, and a reference to a structure includes any part of the structure and any product or mechanical or electrical system intended for the structure;

“subdivided building” has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act (Cap. 30C);

“subsidiary management corporation” has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act.

Application

3.—(1)  Subject to paragraph (2), these Regulations apply to —

(a) a project that —

(i) is undertaken by a developer in the course of the developer’s business;

(ii) involves or is intended to involve any construction work of a contract sum of $10 million or more; and

(iii) involves development under section 3(1) of the Planning Act (Cap. 232); and

(b) a project to modify a permanent structure, in respect of which a design‑for‑safety register has been kept under regulation 7, that involves development under section 3(1) of the Planning Act.

(2)  These Regulations do not apply to a project in respect of which the developer has appointed a designer before 1 August 2016.

Made on 8 July 2015.

LOH KHUM YEAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[C010-048-0019; AG/LLRD/SL/354A/2010/16 Vol. 2]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 65(8) of the Workplace Safety and Health Act).