Safe Work Procedure
SAFETY CIRCULAR ON
SAFE WORK PROCEDURES
OSD/SC002/2000
By Occupational Safety and Health Division
Ministry of Manpower
♦
Identification of Hazards and Injuries
Before any work specified in the Twelfth
INTRODUCTION
Schedule is carried out, the potential
Safe work procedures are sequence of
hazards to which persons could be exposed
plan of actions, in consistent with the
at the workplace must be identified. The
generally accepted safe and sound practice,
injuries and harms that could arise from
established for the purpose of carrying out
such hazards must also be identified.
work safely.
Such safe work procedures
should be made readily available at the workplace. LEGAL OBLIGATIONS UNDER SECTION
47A OF THE FACTORIES ACT
Section
47A
of
the
Factories
Act
requires that safe work procedures be implemented for certain types of work carried out in factories. The types of work are stipulated in the Twelfth Schedule.
Work at height
Example of such types of work are work in a confined space and work at a place where a
♦
Elimination of Hazards
person is liable to fall a distance of more
Having identified the hazards that could
than 3 metres or into any substance that is
be encountered in the execution of the
likely
work, appropriate measures must then be
to
cause
drowning,
poisoning,
chemical burns or asphyxiation.
taken to reduce and, where possible, eliminate such hazards.
Safety Circular on Safe work Procedures
Page 1
Scope of Safe Work Procedures and
Documentation
work, Job Safety Analysis is normally used
The scope of safe work procedure must
♦
in the work. The process for the Job Safety
to systematically examine the task involved
include:
Analysis involved in a typical work are as
(a)
follows:
the provision of suitable personal protective equipment to persons carrying out the work; and
(b)
(a)
SAFE WORK PROCEDURES
OSD/SC002/2000
By Occupational Safety and Health Division
Ministry of Manpower
♦
Identification of Hazards and Injuries
Before any work specified in the Twelfth
INTRODUCTION
Schedule is carried out, the potential
Safe work procedures are sequence of
hazards to which persons could be exposed
plan of actions, in consistent with the
at the workplace must be identified. The
generally accepted safe and sound practice,
injuries and harms that could arise from
established for the purpose of carrying out
such hazards must also be identified.
work safely.
Such safe work procedures
should be made readily available at the workplace. LEGAL OBLIGATIONS UNDER SECTION
47A OF THE FACTORIES ACT
Section
47A
of
the
Factories
Act
requires that safe work procedures be implemented for certain types of work carried out in factories. The types of work are stipulated in the Twelfth Schedule.
Work at height
Example of such types of work are work in a confined space and work at a place where a
♦
Elimination of Hazards
person is liable to fall a distance of more
Having identified the hazards that could
than 3 metres or into any substance that is
be encountered in the execution of the
likely
work, appropriate measures must then be
to
cause
drowning,
poisoning,
chemical burns or asphyxiation.
taken to reduce and, where possible, eliminate such hazards.
Safety Circular on Safe work Procedures
Page 1
Scope of Safe Work Procedures and
Documentation
work, Job Safety Analysis is normally used
The scope of safe work procedure must
♦
in the work. The process for the Job Safety
to systematically examine the task involved
include:
Analysis involved in a typical work are as
(a)
follows:
the provision of suitable personal protective equipment to persons carrying out the work; and
(b)
(a)