Singapore has made significant progress in our workplace safety and health (WSH) outcomes. Our workplace fatal injury rate declined by more than 75% over the past 14 years: from 4.9 per 100,000 workers in 2004 to 1.2 per 100,000 workers in 2018 – the lowest level recorded in history. This was the result of concerted tripartite efforts to strengthen WSH regulations, develop capabilities, raise awareness and deepen industry ownership of WSH, which were guided by the national WSH strategies developed in 2005 and 2008.
In his presentation, Er. Ho Siong Hin will be sharing on the strategies Singapore adopted over the years to achieve the improvements, including our Vision Zero Journey. This will include the communication strategy to convey what is Vision Zero versus Zero Vision bringing about a mindset shift. He will also touch on the challenges that Singapore is currently facing and how Singapore plans to address these challenges via our latest ten-year roadmap, the WSH 2028 National WSH Strategies.