Approved Codes of Practices

Workplace Safety and Health (Approved Codes of Practice) Notification 2013

With effect from 21st November 2014

All publications available at Level 3A unless otherwise indicated.

 Code of Practice for Working Safely at Heights [online]

2nd revision, 2013

 Code of Practice on WSH Risk Management [online]

2nd revision, 2015

 Code of Practice on Safe Lifting Operations in the Workplaces [online]

1st revision, 2014

 SS 98: Specification for Industrial safety helmets

 SS 280: Specification for Metal scaffoldings

Part 1: Frame scaffoldings

Part 2: Modular scaffoldings

 SS 311: Specification for Steel tubes and fittings used in tubular scaffolding
 SS 473: Specification for Personal eye-protectors

Part 1: General requirements

Part 2: Selection, use and maintenance

 SS 497: Code of Practice for Design, safe use and maintenance of gantry cranes, overhead
travelling cranes and monorail hoists
 SS 506: Occupational safety and health (OSH) management system

Part 1: Requirements
Part 2: Guidelines for the implementation of SS 506: Part 1: 2009
Part 3: Requirements for the chemical industry

 SS 508: Graphical symbols — Safety colours and safety signs

Part 1: Design principles for safety signs in workplaces & public areas
Part 3: Design principles for graphical symbols for use in safety signs
Part 4: Colorimetric and photometric properties of safety sign materials
Part 5: Registered safety signs

 SS 510: Code of Practice for Safety in welding and cutting (and other operations involving the use
of heat)

(Formerly CP 50)

 SS 511: Code of Practice for Diving at work

 SS 513: Specification for Personal protective equipment — Footwear

Part 1: Safety footwear

Part 2: Test methods for footwear

 SS 514: Code of Practice for Office ergonomics

 SS 528: Specification for Personal fall-arrest systems

Part 1: Full-body harnesses

Part 2: Lanyards and energy absorbers
Part 3: Self-retracting lifelines
Part 4: Vertical rails & vertical lifelines incorporating a sliding-type fall arrester
Part 5: Connectors with self-closing and self-locking gates
Part 6: System performance tests

 SS 531: Code of Practice for Lighting of work places

Part 1: Indoor
Part 2: Outdoor
Part 3: Lighting requirements for safety and security of outdoor work places

 SS 532: Code of Practice for The storage of flammable liquids

 SS 536: Code of Practice for The safe use of mobile cranes

(Formerly CP 37)

 SS 537: Code of Practice for Safe use of machinery

Part 1: General requirements

Part 2: Woodworking machinery

 SS 541: Restraint belts (2008)

*Amendment No.1 (2012) - not available in SP Library

 SS 548: Code of Practice for Selection, use, and maintenance of respiratory protective devices

(Formerly CP 74)

 SS 549: Code of Practice for Selection, use, care and maintenance of hearing protectors

(Formerly CP 76)

 SS 550: Code of Practice for Installation, operation and maintenance of electric passenger and
goods lifts

(Formerly CP 2)

 SS 553: Code of Practice for Air-conditioning and mechanical ventilation in buildings

(Formerly CP 13)
 SS 554: Code of Practice for Indoor air quality for air-conditioned buildings
 SS 557: Code of Practice for Demolition

(Formerly CP 11)

 SS 559: Code of Practice for Safe use of tower cranes

(Formerly CP 62)

 SS 562: Code of Practice for Safety in trenches, pits and other excavated areas
 SS 567: 2011 Code of Practice for Factory layout — Safety, health and welfare considerations

(Formerly CP 27)

 SS 568: 2011 Code of Practice for Confined spaces

(Formerly CP 84)

 SS 569: Code of Practice for Manual handling

(Formerly CP 92)

 SS 570: Specification for Personal protective equipment for protection against falls from a height
— Single point anchor devices and flexible horizontal lifeline systems
 SS 571: Code of Practice for Energy lockout and tagout

(Formerly CP 91)

 SS 573: Code of Practice for The safe use of powered counterbalanced forklifts

(Formerly CP 101)

 SS 580: Code of Practice for Formwork

(Formerly CP 23)

 SS 586: Specification for Hazard communication for hazardous chemicals and dangerous goods

Part 1: Transport and storage of dangerous goods

Part 2: Globally harmonised system of classification and labelling of chemicals — Singapore’s
adaptations
Part 3: Preparation of safety data sheets (SDS)

 SS 588: Personal equipment for protection against falls –– Rope access systems

Part 1: Fundamental principles for a system of work

Part 2: Code of practice

 SS 598: Code of Practice for Suspended scaffolds

 CP 5: Code of Practice for Electrical installations
 Amendment 1 (2008)

 CP 14: Code of Practice for Scaffolds

 CP 63: Code of Practice for The lifting of persons in work platforms suspended from cranes
 CP 79: Code of Practice for Safety management system or construction worksites
 CP 88: Code of Practice for Temporary electrical installations

Part 1: Construction and building sites

Part 2:Festive lighting, trade-fairs, mini-fairs and exhibition sites
Part 3: Shipbuilding and ship-repairing yards

 CP 99: Code of Practice for Industrial noise control