Workplace Safety Health & Work Injury Compensation laws including related criminal & civil liabilities

by Lee Kwok Weng

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Why You Should Attend This Course

Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) is and should remain to be of paramount importance to any businesses owners, employers and organisations. It is about & concerns the welfare of employees, customers & visitors. Any lapse of WSH administration will incur criminal & civil liabilities as well a negative impact of the organisation’s reputation.

As such it is important that businesses owners, employers, bosses, directors, managers, HR managers and even employees to be fully acquainted with WSH requirements, duties & responsibilities and comply with the laws.

  • To enhance participants’ awareness and understanding of the relevant workplace safety & health (WSH) laws & legislations, in particular the duties & responsibilities of Employer, Principal, Occupier, Contractor, Supplier, Manager and Employee (Person at work)
  • To provide a practical insight of the related Work Injury Compensation Act
  • Participants will appreciate and be able to evaluate the impact of related WSH laws on their roles as Business Owners, Employers, Directors, Consultants, HR Managers & Executives, Professionals, Managers, Contractors or Employees in relation to WSH legal requirements in their workplace.
  • Participants will acquire greater clarity & deeper understanding of the roles & legal duties of the various stakeholders especially the Principal and Occupier under WSH laws so as to enable the participants to carry out their work as business owners, managers & executives, HR managers & executives and as employees, Further, it will also provide management & operation staff useful pointers in managing contractors and in preparing & administering contracts in compliance with WSH law & requirements.
  • Participants will understand the serious consequences of failure to discharge their WSH responsibilities, which can incur both criminal & civil liabilities. This will be illustrated by some case studies
  • Introduction to Singapore Laws and Singapore legal systems& sources
  • Basis of WSH laws and WSH administration
  • Singapore’s WSH framework and the key reforms from the previous laws
  • Detailed Discussion of the WSH Act (WSHA) and the relevant Regulations
  • The legal duties & responsibilities of the main stakeholders including the Occupier, Employer & Persons at Work (Employee)
  • Practical Insight of Work Injury Compensation Act (WICA), which is related to WSH Act
  • Consequences of violating or non-compliance with WSHA & WICA
  • Civil & Criminal Liabilities and their differences
  • Professional negligence & liabilities of Business Owners, Employers, Directors, Consultants, HR Managers & Executives, Professionals, Managers, Contractors or Employees
  • The law of negligence
  • Direct & vicarious liability
  • How to avoid civil claims & liabilities or at least contain it
  • Criminal Laws relating to WSH & WICA infringements in the workplace 
  • Overview of criminal laws and their relevance to Business Owners, Employers, Directors, Consultants, HR Managers & Executives, Professionals, Managers, Contractors or Employees
  • Possible criminal liabilities of Business Owners, Employers, Directors, Consultants, HR Managers & Executives, Professionals, Managers, Contractors or Employees
  • The sources of our criminal laws and elements of crime
  • An overview of the Penal Code and  criminal liabilities under the relevant technical legislations like WSHA and WICA in relation to occupational safety & health that involve Business Owners, Employers, Directors, Consultants, HR Managers & Executives, Professionals, Managers, Contractors or Employees
  • Injuries & death of employees or visitors in the workplace caused by accidents or breach of safety & health rules and the impact on & relevance to Business Owners, Employers, Directors, Consultants, HR Managers & Executives, Professionals, Managers, Contractors or Employees
  • The reasonable WSH practice to adopt & suggested checklist to follow in order to contain or  alleviate possible criminal liabilities and legal pitfalls & claims arising from workplace accidents

Business Owners, Employers, Directors, Consultants, HR Managers & Executives, Professionals, Managers, Contractors or anyone who is concerned or dealing with health & safety matters in organisations, companies, industries and other workplaces.

You will hear from a speaker who is has about 30 continuous years of experience as a criminal & civil litigation lawyer in private practice under his own law firm before he retired from active legal practice.

Also, Mr. Lee has extensive industrial, projects, safety health & environment management experience as a practising engineer and senior project manager working for more than 12 years in the energy, marine, oil & gas industry before he switched to law.

Dates

09 Sep 2021
07 Dec 2021

Course Fee

S$565.00

The class offers in-class or virtual learning
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