The Workplace Safety and Health Design for Safety (DfS) regulations, which came into effect in August 2016, placed duties on developers and designers to identify and address foreseeable risks throughout the lifecycle of a construction project. Through a series of interviews with industry practitioners, some challenges faced during the DfS review process were identified.
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Safe fall protection systems are crucial to any construction site and are an indispensable part of engineering and safety competencies. The Workplace Safety and Health (Work at Heights) Regulations 2013 requires Professional Engineers (PEs) to design all anchorages and anchorage lines of industrial rope access systems. Sections 9 to 11 of the same regulation requires the responsible person and occupier to ensure fall protection systems are safe for use. These regulations are supplemented by codes of practices and Singapore Standards. However, existing safety and engineering courses do not cover the engineering aspects of fall protection systems in sufficient depth (Goh & Wang, 2015).
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