International Advisory Panel for Workplace Safety & Health
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) formed the International Advisory Panel for Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) in 2006. This is part of the efforts to reform the WSH framework and improve WSH standards in Singapore.
The Terms of Reference of the panel are:
- To advise on significant trends and developments in industrial practices that would impact on WSH in Singapore
- To share approaches to WSH challenges in other countries that might guide Singapore's WSH development
- To critique the WSH standards, practices and regulatory regime in Singapore and provide advice on possible improvements, in order to to bring WSH standards in Singapore to the level of leading edge country leaders
Milestones
- 31 Oct – 2 Nov 2006: Inaugural meeting of the International Advisory Panel in Singapore. It endorsed the Singapore's WSH framework as outlined in WSH 2015: A Strategy for WSH in Singapore.
- 30 - 31 Oct 2008: Reconvening of the panel. The second meeting was chaired by the Minister for Manpower, Mr Gan Kim Yong, and co-chaired by the Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Manpower, Mr Hawazi Daipi. The panel endorsed the WSH 2018 - the enhanced national WSH plan to bring Singapore's workplace fatality rate down to 1.8 per 100,000 workers within a decade. It also strongly supported the inclusion of a new strategic outcome to develop a "Progressive and Pervasive Safety and Health Culture" under WSH 2018. New areas of work identified. The panel agreed that improving WSH competencies and workplace health management in Singapore were important parts of the WSH 2018 strategy.
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