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SINGAPORE: Additional measures will be put in place to speed up the restart of the structure safely, with the maximum number of foreign dormitories now cleared from COVID-19, announced by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) on Wednesday (August 12).
BCA said in a press release that it had allowed all corporations with foreign-structured personnel to return to work.
The new measures allow corporations and their foreign-structured staff to return to outdoor paint structure sites and provide paint space without seeking BCA approval.
AccessCode’s prestige on the SGWorkPass platform will show that those staff have been approved to get started, BCA said.
Workers who meet the other 4 situations, those who have been released from COVID-19 infection, who have not gained a home notice, who have installed the TraceTogether app, and who remain in a COVID-authorized household, will also have their AccessCode prestige. green and allows resuming. Work.
This will gain advantages over 40,000 workers, BCA added.
However, contractors of structure sites and paint premises must still seek BCA approval to resume paints.
“To minimize the threat of COVID-19 transmission, key contractors will want to outline protection control measures in their programs to BCA,” the authority said.
“The main contractors will continue to apply on behalf of their subcontractors and subcontractors for this work.”
The restriction that restricts structure projects to allow staff up to 10 housing addresses will also be temporarily suspended to facilitate faster resetting of the structure.
“In the meantime, employers work to organize their foreign staff into their homes, at least according to the employer,” BCA said.
The authority added that employers and accommodation operators also deserve to continue painting heavily in combination to make certain living situations and provide committed shipments to foreign painters.
“Employers deserve to take into account as many staff on site as possible and enforce strict zoning of their workforce, and to ensure that staff who live in other homes or perform other activities are not intermingling on the site.
“BCA will largely monitor the situation by intensifying audits and inspections at the structure sites,” he said.
Consolidation will also be carried out in 43 bedrooms approved by the Foreign Employees Dormitories Act to minimize worker readiness. These bedrooms have space for about 160,000 workers.
Employers and staff will be informed in advance of the consolidation schedule, so staff can prepare for the shift, adding packing their belongings, BCA said.
Workers living in open dormitories with prestigious AccessCode “green” will be allowed to continue running while the training is taking place, which must end until September 30.
AccessCode statuses of staff in dormitories that do not until that date will appear in “red” and will no longer be able to work, BCA added.
Foreigners living in dormitories accounted for the majority of COVID-19 cases reported in Singapore.
Authorities said Tuesday that they were “actively monitoring” the dormitories of foreign personnel to handle the threat of additional outbreaks, even after the final touch of testing for all foreign personnel living there.
Several control measures have been explained to minimize the threat of infection, adding temperature controls, sewage tracking in high-risk dormitories and normal regime testing.
“With more movements in and out of the bedrooms, it is even more vital that everyone remains vigilant to protect themselves against new infections,” the Ministry of Labour, the BCA, the Economic Development Council and the Health Promotion Council said in a joint statement. . Launch.
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