Mr Muhammad Firdaus Jasni, who was working for Marine Diving & Engineering, died of traumatic asphyxia with lung contusions in 2018.that pinned him underwater at a jetty was fined $200,000 on Tuesday over safety lapses that led to the tragedy.
Ministry of Manpower prosecutor Delvinder Singh said that the company had failed to deploy only trained and certified divers for the underwater work. Among other things, it also failed to carry out risk assessments and safe work procedures in relation to the tragedy. The MOM prosecutor said that Mr Firdaus was not a trained commercial diver as he had not attended either Level 1 or Level 2 of commercial diving training, as required under the relevant Commercial Diver Competency Standard.
Mr Singh said that on July 23, 2017, a tanker struck the jetty and partially damaged it. As a result, the damaged section had to be demolished. Underwater piles, which were pillar-like structures holding the jetty, also had to be extracted.On June 23, 2018, Mr Koh asked him to install brackets for the piles underwater. The brackets were needed for pile-cutting.
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