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First published in the Government Gazette, Electronic Edition, on 11th November 2016 at 5.00 pm.

No. 3365 –– WORKPLACE SAFETY AND HEALTH (CHAPTER 354A)

WORKPLACE SAFETY AND HEALTH

(APPROVED CODES OF PRACTICE)
NOTIFICATION 2016

In accordance with section 40B(3) of the Workplace Safety and Health Act
(Cap. 354A), 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 21 November 2016.

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 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.

THE SCHEDULE
Year
Approved Codes of Practice Published
1. Code of Practice for Working Safely at Heights 2013
2. Code of Practice on WSH Risk Management 2015
3. Code of Practice on Safe Lifting Operations in the Workplaces 2014
4. SS 98: Specification for industrial safety helmets 2013
5. SS 280: Specification for Metal scaffoldings 2006
Part 1: Frame scaffoldings
6. SS 280: Specification for Metal scaffoldings 2009
Part 2: Modular scaffoldings
7. SS 311: Specification for Steel tubes and fittings used in tubular 2005
scaffolding
8. SS 343: Specification for lifting gear –– Part 1: Wire rope slings 2014
9. SS 343: Specification for lifting gear –– Part 2: Hooks 2014
10. SS 343: Specification for lifting gear –– Part 3: Shackles 2014
11. SS 473: Specification for Personal eye-protectors 2011
Part 1: General requirements
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THE SCHEDULE –– continued

Year
Approved Codes of Practice Published
12. SS 473: Specification for Personal eye-protectors 2011
Part 2: Selection, use and maintenance
13. SS 497: Code of Practice for Design, safe use and maintenance 2011
of gantry cranes, overhead travelling cranes and monorail
hoists
14. SS 506: Occupational safety and health (OSH) management 2009
system
Part 1: Requirements
15. SS 506: Occupational safety and health (OSH) management 2009
system
Part 2: Guidelines for the implementation of SS 506: Part 1:
2009
16. SS 506: Occupational safety and health (OSH) management 2013
system
Part 3: Requirements for the chemical industry
17. SS 508: Graphical symbols - Safety colours and safety signs 2013
Part 1: Design principles for safety signs and safety markings
18. SS 508: Specification for graphical symbols –– Safety colours 2008
and safety signs
Part 2: Design principles for product safety labels
Amendment No.1 (2013)
19. SS 508: Graphical symbols –– Safety colours and safety signs 2013
Part 3: Design principles for graphical symbols for use in safety
signs
20. SS 508: Graphical symbols –– Safety colours and safety signs 2013
Part 4: Colorimetric and photometric properties of safety sign
materials
21. SS 508: Graphical symbols –– Safety colours and safety signs 2013
Part 5: Registered safety signs
22. SS 510: Code of Practice for Safety in welding and cutting (and 2005
other operations involving the use of heat)
(Formerly CP 50)
23. SS 511: Code of Practice for Diving at work 2010
24. SS 513: Specification for personal protective equipment –– 2013
Footwear
Part 1: Safety footwear
25. SS 513: Specification for personal protective equipment –– 2013
Footwear
Part 2: Test methods for footwear
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THE SCHEDULE –– continued

Year
Approved Codes of Practice Published
26. SS 514: Code of Practice for Office ergonomics 2005
27. SS 528: Specification for Personal fall-arrest systems 2006
Part 1: Full-body harnesses
28. SS 528: Specification for Personal fall-arrest systems 2006
Part 2: Lanyards and energy absorbers
29. SS 528: Specification for Personal fall-arrest systems 2006
Part 3: Self-retracting lifelines
30. SS 528: Specification for Personal fall-arrest systems 2006
Part 4: Vertical rails and vertical lifelines incorporating a
sliding-type fall arrester
31. SS 528: Specification for Personal fall-arrest systems 2006
Part 5: Connectors with self-closing and self-locking gates
32. SS 528: Specification for Personal fall-arrest systems 2006
Part 6: System performance tests
33. SS 531: Code of Practice for Lighting of work places 2006
Part 1: Indoor
34. SS 531: Code of Practice for Lighting of work places 2008
Part 2: Outdoor
35. SS 531: Code of Practice for Lighting of work places 2008
Part 3: Lighting requirements for safety and security of outdoor
work places
36. SS 532: Code of Practice for the storage of flammable liquids 2016
Incorporating Corrigendum No. 1
37. SS 536: Code of Practice for The safe use of mobile cranes 2008
(Formerly CP 37)
38. SS 537: Code of Practice for Safe use of machinery 2008
Part 1: General requirements
39. SS 537: Code of Practice for Safe use of machinery 2009
Part 2: Woodworking machinery
40. SS 541: Restraint belts 2008
Amendment No.1 (2012)
41. SS 548: Code of Practice for Selection, use, and maintenance of 2009
respiratory protective devices
(Formerly CP 74)
42. SS 549: Code of Practice for Selection, use, care and 2009
maintenance of hearing protectors
(Formerly CP 76)
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THE SCHEDULE –– continued

Year
Approved Codes of Practice Published
43. SS 550: Code of Practice for Installation, operation and 2009
maintenance of electric passenger and goods lifts
(Formerly CP 2)
44. SS 553: Code of Practice for air-conditioning and mechanical 2016
ventilation in buildings
45. SS 554: Code of Practice for indoor air quality for 2016
air-conditioned buildings
46. SS 557: Code of Practice for Demolition 2010
(Formerly CP 11)
47. SS 559: Code of Practice for Safe use of tower cranes 2010
(Formerly CP 62)
48. SS 562: Code of Practice for Safety in trenches, pits and other 2010
excavated areas
49. SS 567: Code of Practice for Factory layout –– Safety, health 2011
and welfare considerations
(Formerly CP 27)
50. SS 568: Code of Practice for Confined spaces 2011
(Formerly CP 84)
51. SS 569: Code of Practice for Manual handling 2011
(Formerly CP 92)
52. SS 570: Specification for Personal protective equipment for 2011
protection against falls from a height –– Single point anchor
devices and flexible horizontal lifeline systems
53. SS 571: Code of Practice for Energy lockout and tagout 2011
(Formerly CP 91)
54. SS 573: Code of Practice for The safe use of powered 2012
counterbalanced forklifts (Formerly CP 101)
55. SS 580: Code of Practice for Formwork (Formerly CP 23) 2012
56. SS 586: Specification for hazard communication for hazardous 2014
chemicals and dangerous goods
Part 1: Transport and storage of dangerous goods
57. SS 586: Specification for hazard communication for hazardous 2014
chemicals and dangerous goods
Part 2: Globally harmonised system of classification and
labelling of chemicals –– Singapore’s adaptations
58. SS 586: Specification for hazard communication for hazardous 2008 (2014)
chemicals and dangerous goods
Part 3: Preparation of safety data sheets (SDS)
Amendment No. 1 (2014)
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THE SCHEDULE –– continued

Year
Approved Codes of Practice Published
59. SS 588: Personal equipment for protection against falls –– Rope 2013
access systems
Part 1: Fundamental principles for a system of work
60. SS 588: Personal equipment for protection against falls –– Rope 2013
access systems
Part 2: Code of practice
61. SS 595: Steel wire ropes for hoisting –– Part 3: Code of practice 2014
for the care, inspection and maintenance of steel wire ropes for
hoisting
62. SS 598: Code of Practice for Suspended scaffolds 2014
63. SS 607: Specification for design of active fall-protection systems 2015
64. CP 5: Code of Practice for Electrical installations 1998
Amendment No. 1 (2008)
65. CP 14: Code of Practice for Scaffolds 1996
66. CP 63: Code of Practice for The lifting of persons in work 1996 (2005)
platforms suspended from cranes
67. CP 79: Code of Practice for Safety management system for 1999
construction worksites
68. CP 88: Code of Practice for Temporary electrical installations 2001
Part 1: Construction and building sites
69. CP 88: Code of Practice for Temporary electrical installations 2001
Part 2: Festive lighting, trade-fairs, mini-fairs and exhibition
sites
70. CP 88: Code of Practice for Temporary electrical installations 2004
Part 3: Shipbuilding and ship-repairing yards
71. CP 99: Code of Practice for Industrial noise control 2003

Revocation
3.  The Workplace Safety and Health (Approved Codes of Practice)
Notification 2015 is revoked.

Made this 4th day of November 2016.

HENG CHIANG GNEE

Chairman, Workplace Safety and Health Council
Singapore