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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022 1
Fiest published in the Government Gazerte, Electronic Edition, on 14 October 2022 at 5 pi
No, 2861 — WORKPLACE SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT 2006
WORKPLACE SAFETY AND HEALTH
(APPROVED CODES OF PRACTICE)
NOTIFICATION 2022
In accordance with section 40B(3) of the Workplace Safety and Health Act
2006, the Workplace Safety and Health Council hereby notifies that the Council
has approved the Codes of Practice set out in the Schedule, with effect from
31 October 2022.
2. The approved Codes of Practice may be inspected at the place and time
and on such days as follows:
Place: Workplace Safety and Health Council
1500 Bendemeer Road, #04-01
Ministry of Manpower Services Centre
Singapore 339946
Day: Mondays to Fridays
(public holidays excepted)
Time: 9.00 am. to 1.00 pm.
2.00 pam. to 5.00 pam,
‘THE SCHEDULE
Approved Codes of Practice Year
Published
1, Code of Practice for Working Safely at Heights 2013
2. Code of Practice on Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Risk 2021
Management
3, Code of Practice on Safe Lifting Operations in the Workplaces 2014
4. Code of Practice on Chief Executives’ and Board of Directors’ 2022
Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Duties
5, $8 98: Specification for industrial safety helmets 2013
6, $$ 280: Specification for metal scatfoldings 2006
Part 1: Frame scalfoldings
7. $$ 280: Specification for metal scatfoldings 2009
Part 2: Modular scaffoldings
Incorporating Corrigendum No. 1, May 2011
8, S$ 311: Specification for stecl tubes and fittings used in tubular 2005
scaffolding
9, $$ 343: Specilication for lifting gear 2014
Part 1: Wire rope slings10,
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THE SCHEDULE — continued
Approved Codes of Practice Year
Published
SS 343: Specification for lifting gear 2014
Part 2: Hooks
SS 343: Specification for lifting gear 2014
Part 3: Shackles
SS 473: Specification for personal eye-protectors 2011
Part I: General requirements
SS 473: Specification for personal e
Part 2: Selection, use and maintenance
SS 485: Specification for slip resistance classification of 2011
pedestrian surface materials,
S$ 497: Code of Practice for design, safe use and maintenance of 2011
gantry cranes, overhead travelling cranes and monorail hoists
88 508: Graphical symbols - Safety colours and safety signs 2013
Part I: Design principles for safety signs and safety markings
Incorporating Amendment No. 1, December 2016
$8 S08: Graphical symbols - Safety colours and safety signs. 2008 (2013)
Part 2: Design principles for product safety labels
Incorporating Amendment No. 1, March 2013
Incorporating Amendment No. 2, December 2016
rotectors, 2011
SS 508: Graphical symbols - Safety colours and safety signs 2013
Part 3: Design principles for graphical symbols for use in safety
signs
Incorporating Amendment No. 1, December 2016
8 508: Graphical symbols - Safety colours and safety signs 2013
Part 4: Colorimetric and photometric properties of safety sign
materials
Incorporating Amendment No, 1, December 2016
8 508: Graphical symbols - Safety colours and safety signs 2013
Part 5: Registered safety signs
Incorporating Amendment No, 1, December 2016
SS 510: Code of Practice for safety in welding, cutting and other 2017
operations involving the use of heat
SS S11: Code of Practice for diving at work 2018
SS 513: Specification for personal protective equipment — 2013
Footwear
Part 1: Safety footwear
SS 513: Specification for personal protective equipment — 2013
Footwear
Part 2: Test methods for footwearFRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022
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‘THE SCHEDULE — continued
Approved Codes of Practice
SS 514: Code of Practice for office ergonomies
SS 528: Specification for Personal fall-arrest systems
Part I: Full-body harnesses
SS 528: Specification for Personal fall-arrest systems
Part 2: Lanyards and energy absorbers
$8 528: Specification for Personal fall-arrest systems
Part 3: Self-retracting lifelines
SS 528: Specification for Personal fall-arrest systems
Part 4: Vertical rails and vertical lifelines incorporating a
sliding-type fall arrester
SS 528: Specification for Personal fall-arrest systems
Part 5: Connectors with self-closing and self-locking gates
88 528: Specification for Personal fall-arrest systems
Part 6; System performance tests
SS $31: Code of Practice for Lighting of work places
Part I: Indoor
SS $31: Code of Practice for Lighting of work places
Part 2: Outdoor
88 531: Code of Practice for Lighting of work places
Part 3: Lighting requirements for safety and security of outdoor
work places
8 $32: Code of Practice for the storage of flammable liquids
Incorporating Corrigendum No. 1, May 2016
SS 536: Code of Practice for the safe use of mobile cranes
SS $37: Code of Practice for safe use of machinery
Part 1: General requirements.
SS 537: Code of Practice for safe use of machinery.
Patt 2: Woodworking machinery
88 S41: Restraint belts
Incorporating Amendment No. 1, April 2012
SS S48: Code of Practice for selection, use and maintenance of
respiratory protective devices
SS 549: Code of Practice for selection, use, care and,
maintenance of hearing protectors,
SS 550: Code of practice for installation, operation and
maintenance of electric passenger and goods lifts
Incorporating Amendment No. 1, March 2022
88 $51: Code of practice for earthing
Year
Published
2016
2006 (2014)
2006 (2014)
2006 (2014)
2006 (2014)
2006 (2014)
2006 (2014)
2006 (2019)
2008 (2019)
2019
2016
2008
2008
2009
2008
2009
2009
2020
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THE SCHEDULE — continued
Approved Codes of Practice
SS 553: Code of Practice for air-conditioning and mechanical
ventilation in buildings
Incorporating Amendment No. 1, August 2017
Incorporating Amendment No. 2, May 2021
SS 554: Code of Practice for indoor air quality for air-conditioned
buildings
Incorporating Amendment No. 1, September 2021,
SS 557: Code of Practice for demolition
SS 559: Code of practice for tower eranes
Part I: General
SS 559: Code of practice for tower cranes
Part 2: Safe use
SS 559: Code of practice for tower cranes
Part 3: Inspection
SS 562: Code of Practice for safety in trenches, pits and other
excavated areas
SS 567: Code of Practice for factory layout — Safety, health and.
welfare considerations
SS 568: Code of Practice for confined spaces
SS 569: Code of Practice for manual handling
SS $70: Specification for personal protective equipment for
protection against falls from a height ~ Single point anchor
devices and flexible horizontal lifeline systems
SS 571: Code of Practice for energy lockout and tagout
SS $73: Code of Practice for the safe use of powered
counterbalanced forklifts
Incorporating Corrigendum No. 1, July 2012
SS 580: Code of practice for formwork
88 586: Specification for hazard communication for hazardous
chemicals and dangerous goods
Part I: Transport and storage of dangerous goods
SS 586: Specification for hazard communication for hazardous
chemicals and dangerous goods
Part 2: Globally harmonised system of classification and.
labelling of chemicals - Singapore’s adaptations
SS 586: Specification for hazard communication for hazardous
chemicals and dangerous goods
Part 3: Preparation of safety data sheets (SDS)
Incorporating Amendment No. 1, February 2014
Year
Published
2016
2016
2010
202
2022
2022
2010
2011
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2011
2011
2011
2012
2020
2021
2014
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THE SCHEDULE — continued
Approved Codes of Practice
$8 588: Personal equipment for protection against falls—
Rope access systems
Part 1: Fundamental principles fora system of work
$8 585: Personal equipment for protection against falls—
Rope access systems
Part 2: Code of practice
$8 595: Steel wire ropes for hoisting
Part 3: Code of practice for the care, inspection and
maintenance of steel wire ropes for hoisting
$8 598: Code of Practice for suspended scaffolds
88 607; Specification for design of active fall-protection systems
$8 616: Code of Practice for safe we of mobile elevating work
platforms
$8 617: Code of Practice forthe lifting of persons in work
platforms suspended from cranes
(Formerly CP 63)
$8 638: Code of practice for electrical installations
(Formerly CP
Incorporating Corrigendum No, 1, June 2020
$5 639: Code of practice for the filling, inspection, testing and
maintenance of gas cylinders for the storage and transport of
compressed gases
Part 1; Seamless steel and aluminium alloy cylinders (excluding
dissolved acetylene) ~ Inspection at time of filling, periodic
maintenance and testing
5 639: Code of practice for the filling, inspection, testing and
maintenance of gas cylinders for the storage and transport of
compressed gases
Part 2: Acetylene cylinders ~ Filling conditions and dilling
inspection
5.639: Code of practice for the filling, inspection, testing and
maintenance of gas cylinders for the storage and transport of
compressed gases
Part 3: Acetylene cylinders ~ Periodic inspection and maintenance
SS 642: Code of practice for pneumatic waste conveyance system
Incorporating Amendment No. 1, Tuly 2020
5 650: Code of practice for temporary electrical installations
(Formerly CP 88)
Part 1: Construction and building sites
Year
Published
2013
2013
2014
2014
2015
2016
2016
2018
2018
2018
2018
2019
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THE SCHEDULE — continued
Approved Codes of Practice
SS 650: Code of practice for temporary electrical installations
(Formerly CP 88)
Part 2: Festive lighting, trade-faiss, mini-fairs and exhibition sites
8S 651: Safety and health management system for the chemical
industry — Requirements with guidance for use
SS 657: Code of practice for workplace noise control
SS 658: Code of practice for design, operation, testing and
‘maintenance of local exhaust ventilation systems
SS 659: Code of practice for scaffolds
SS 663: Code of practice for safe loading on vehicles
(Formerly CP 30)
SS 667: Code of practice for handling, storage and processing of
combustible dust
SS 679: Code of practice for workplace safety and health,
‘management system for construction worksites
Incorporating Corrigendum No. 1, Apr 2022
SS 682: Code of practice for safe use of thermal foggers during
pest management activities
CP 88: Code of Practice for temporary electrical installations
Part 3: Shipbuilding and ship-repairing yards
‘88 ISO 10218: Robots and robotic devices - Safety requirements
for industrial robots
Part I: Robots
$8 ISO 10218: Robots and robotic devices ~ Safety requirements
for industrial robots
Part 2: Robot systems and integration
$8 ISO 45001: Occupational health and safety management
systems — Requirements with guidance for use
SS EN 131: Ladders —Part L: Terms, types, functional sizes
‘SS EN 131: Ladders ~ Part 2: Requirements, testing, marking
SS EN 131: Ladders — Part 3: Marking and user instructions
‘SS EN 131: Ladders — Part 4: Single or multiple hinge-joint ladders
‘SS EN 131: Ladders — Part 6: Telescopic ladders
SS EN 131: Ladders Part 7: Mobile ladders with platform
SS EN 420: Protective gloves - General requirements and test
methods
‘SS EN 13374: Temporary edge protection systems ~ Product
specifications — Test methods
Year
Published
2019
2019
2020
2020
2020
2020
2020
2021
2022
2004
2016
2016
2018
2019
2019
2019
2019
2019
2019
2003
2018FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2022 7
Revocation
3. The Workplace Safety and Health (Approved Codes of Practice)
Notification 2021 is revoked.
Made this 13th day of October 2022,
JOHN NG PENG WAH
Chairman, Workplace Safety and Health Council
Singapore