| By Jermyn Chow | ||
 |  | Top management, including chief executive officers and directors, failed to enforce proper safety plans before starting work and neglected to train workers to deal competently with their equipment. -- ST PHOTO: ABDUL AZIZ HUSSIN |
HALF of the 200 workplace fatalities occurring over the past three years were caused by a failure to follow safety plans, a failure tacitly endorsed by bosses.
In these cases, management paid only lip service to safety, said Mr Silas Sng, who heads the Ministry of Manpower's (MOM) Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Inspectorate.
'While companies have some sort of safety plan in place, many do not follow through or enforce the plan,' he said in response to queries from The Straits Times. 'This condones and tacitly allows workers to take shortcuts and risks.'
Such unsafe acts included safety supervisors failing to equip workers with proper safety gear or inspecting sites properly before work started.
Top management, including chief executive officers and directors, failed to enforce proper safety plans before starting work and neglected to train workers to deal competently with their equipment.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
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