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The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has taken enforcement action against a contractor and one of its managers for alleged safety breaches linked to a workplace incident at PUB's Choa Chu Kang Waterworks that left two workers dead.
Charges were filed against Stargroup Est Pte Ltd, the contractor engaged to carry out tank cleaning operations at the facility, and Lim Beng Hock, Stargroup's authorised manager for confined space entry permits.
Stargroup was charged with one count under the Workplace Safety and Health (Risk Management) Regulations for "failing to implement reasonably practicable measures to minimise the risk to any person who may be affected by its undertaking at the workplace," according to MOM.
Lim faces 12 counts under the Workplace Safety and Health (Confined Spaces) Regulations for "failing to exercise all due diligence when performing his function as authorised manager in relation to the issuance of confined space entry permits."
The charges come after a fatal incident in May 2024 that left two workers dead.
In the incident, a team of four workers from Stargroup and its subcontractor were carrying out cleaning works inside a water treatment process tank.
Three of the workers collapsed after entering an enclosed passage beneath the tank to close hand valves that had been opened to drain water.
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