SINGAPORE: Two more workplace fatalities were reported in August, including a 65-year-old man who was hit by a forklift at Kranji Water Reclamation Plant.
Water agency PUB, which operates the plant, said that the worker was at the facility to collect a forklift rented by its contractor SANLI Engineering and Construction. The other fatality involved a 32-year-old Bangladeshi rigger who died on Aug 26 while he was working on unloading the base of a concrete lamppost via a lorry loader at a construction site.
It will introduce further measures to strengthen workplace safety, adding that more information will be announced when a review is complete.Have minimum rest hours, improve channels to report lapses in workplace safety, says Melvin YongIn June, it also announced measures such as imposing higher composition fines for offences that were uncovered during inspections.