Written Answer by Mr Lim Swee Say Minister for Manpower to Parliamentary Question on SnapSAFE app

NOTICE PAPER NO. 1111 OF 2018 FOR THE SITTING ON 19 MAR 2018

QUESTION NO. 803 FOR WRITTEN ANSWER

MP: Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang

To ask the Minister for Manpower (a) to date, how many companies have adopted the SnapSAFE app for reporting of workplace safety issues; (b) how many complaints have been filed through the app in 2015, 2016, 2017 respectively; (c) what is the breakdown of valid and invalid reports; (d) how many companies have been reported; (e) how many employers have been disciplined for unsafe work practices in 2015, 2016 and 2017 respectively; and (f) what actions have been taken against them.

Answer:

1. The number of reports received via the Snap@MOM app, number of valid reports, and number of companies issued with enforcement actions between 2015 and 2017 is shown below: -
   
   

   	2015	2016	2017
   Number of reports via Snap@MOM	666	781	786
   Number of valid reports	650	757	768
   Number of valid cases issued warning	575	625	636
   Number of valid cases issued enforcement action	75	132	132
   Number of companies issued with enforcement actions	73	131	132

2. All valid reports have resulted in warnings or enforcement actions. The enforcement actions included Notices of Non-compliance, composition fines and/or Stop Work Orders.
3. The Snap@MOM app was enhanced and replaced by the SnapSAFE app on 1 December 2017. It has a new internal corporate reporting function for in-house reporting of WSH lapses, near-misses or accidents to facilitate company ownership on WSH. As it is in its initial months of launch, we are currently reaching out to more companies to adopt this as an internal WSH reporting tool.