SINGAPORE:  , Singapore’s workplace fatality rate for the first half of 2024 remained near last year’s record low, the Ministry of Manpower ( MOM) said on Wednesday ( Oct 9 ).
It stood at 1.0 per 100, 000 staff for the January to June time, compared with 0.8 and 0.99 in the first and second quarter of 2023. In the first six weeks, there were 19 work mortality, an increase from the 14 cases reported during the same time last month.  ,
One of Singapore’s workplace safety and health aims is to minimize the annualised catastrophic damage level to below 1.0 per 100, 000 staff by 2028. Last year was the first day Singapore reached the goal, aside from 2020 when COVID-19 disrupted job.
When asked what the region’s second goal may be, MOM said that it tries to strike a balance.  ,
” Potentially, we can offer a lot more steps, I think, to pull it down from 1.0 to 0.8, to 0.7. However, the important question is still being asked, “at what cost,” according to a MOM spokeswoman, noting that it would be difficult to put in place regulations like having someone manage every piece of work done at a webpage.
He claimed that it took years for the four OECD nations to achieve their current standards. The Netherlands and the United Kingdom top the list with a three-year regular price of 0.4 per 100, 000 employees.
” Do we have aspirations to drive ( the rate ) down to 0.4? We do include, but are we going to achieve it in the next two, three times? Honestly, it is very challenging”, he said.
Only one major accident involving many workers may bring the price back up to 1.2 or 1.5 per 100, 000 workers, he added.
TOP CONTRIBUTORS TO FATAL, MAJOR Injury
According to MOM, development, production, transportation, and safe-keeping remained the main contributors to dangerous and serious injuries in the first half of the year.
These three business saw a fifty-four percent increase in fatal and serious injury, though this number is lower than the 63 % reported in the first quarter of 2023. There were improvements in design and production,  , where measures such as video security and a fault place program weren introduced.
The number of Type A ( higher fatality risk ) and B ( lower fatality risk ) incidents both fell. Compared to 129 incidents during the same time last year, there were 117 Type A happenings in the first half of the time. For Type B incidents, the number fell from 201 to 195.
The annualised key wound rate across all industries was 16 per 100, 000 employees, compared with 17.4 in the first quarter of 2023.  ,