Temporary workers are hired through recruitment agencies
and hence subject to the terms and conditions of the respective
agency contracts. Temporary employment arrangements are
usually for periods of less than three months.
Workplace safety and health
The Workplace Safety & Health (WSH) Act is a Ministry of Manpower
legislation governing the safety, health and welfare of persons at work
in workplaces. The Act will be extended to cover all workplaces on
1 September 2011.
Singtel is committed to providing a safe work environment and we
formed a dedicated WSH Committee to build our WSH capabilities,
well ahead of the deadline. Our WSH Committee has developed a
comprehensive Health Safety and Environment policy statement to
address our WSH and environment issues in a holistic manner.
Singtel's Health, Safety and
Environment Policy Statement
"Singtel is committed to providing a healthy and safe work environment
for employees, customers, business partners and visitors, and managing
our environmental footprint through resource conservation and pollution
prevention. Every employee has a personal responsibility to support this
commitment..."
We educated our people on the implications of the Act and their roles in
maintaining a healthy and safe workplace for all stakeholders through
awareness workshops and a WSH portal that we created to provide
easy access to all WSH-related information.
We have assumed the additional responsibility of spreading WSH awareness to our business partners and vendors as a bizSAFE Partner. |
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We have revised our Procurement policy to take our suppliers' bizSAFE status into consideration during the evaluation stage, demonstrating our preference to work with parties who share our commitment to promote WSH. We also hold the bizSAFE Enterprise Level 2 certification, which
requires the company's nominated risk management champions to
attend a two-day Risk Management Course on managing and reducing
WSH risks.
There has been no incidence of work-related fatalities or occupational
disease at our Singapore operations in the last three years, indicating
that our safety measures have been effective.
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| Ministry of Manpower Workplace Safety
and Health Indicators FY10/11 |
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| 1 Ministry of Manpower workplace safety and health indicators 2010 |
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Number of fatal and non-fatal workplace injuries per 100,000 persons employed.
Figures used are victim-based. |
| B. |
Number of workplace accidents per million man-hours worked.
Figures used are incident-based. |
| C. |
Number of man-days lost to workplace accidents per million man-hours worked. |
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