Operators of wagon cranes at Tiong Woon will receive thorough training as well as normal guide training and assessments to ensure effectiveness with the balance control system.
Mr. Teo Swee Tee, who has driven a vehicle crane for about 20 years, was one of them.
Mr. Teo claimed that operators should maintain safety in mind and never rely solely on the tech, despite the security control system’s potential health benefits.
He said he had to pay attention to the location where the trucks crane was parked, the mass of its weight, and how far and large it was being carried.
Similar to Mr. Samuel Siew, the head of the Workplace Safety and Health Council task force for cranes and pulling, said security in lifting businesses was not just about technology but also education, including observing the atmosphere around a vehicle hoist.
The stability control system must meet certain requirements in order to satisfy MOM’s request, including having it installed by the authorized agent or factory-installed by the truck crane manufacturer.
Masters of existing fleet cranes without an appropriate balance manage system are also strongly encouraged to mount one, according to MOM, although the condition is only for newly registered fleet cranes.
Companies can apply for a grant to receive up to 70 % of the cost of setting or purchasing the stability control system to help with fees.
The offer is available for application until March 2025, and is capped at S$ 7, 000 per vehicle hoist and S$ 20, 000 per enterprise entity.
Mr. Tan said Singapore may make better usage of technology to improve health performance and productivity across the entire building field during an annual event held by the Singapore Contractors Associated Limited.
Singapore, he said, has a “moral work” to do right by its staff because they are the backbone of the building industry.
According to him, workplace safety even makes economic sense because a fatal or significant accident can cost a business as much as S$ 600,000, including lost productivity and future contracts.
The design firm’s catastrophic damage price fell by about 40 per cent, from 5.5 per 100, 000 staff in 2014, to 3.4 per 100, 000 staff in 2023.
But on average, the sector’s rate was still at least two- and- a- half times higher than the national rate in the last 10 years, Mr Tan noted.
A worker died in a May 2022 incident involving a lorry crane at Defu Avenue 2  after being pinned under a sizable metal pipe when a lorry crane toppled on its side.
In June, to act as stronger deterrence against workplace safety breaches,  , maximum fines for such offences went up from S$ 20, 000 to S$ 50, 000.