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SMRT on right track to enhance its safety systems

There are potential and foreseeable hazards in all workplaces. Employers must therefore do a thorough site review regularly.

There are potential and foreseeable hazards in all workplaces. Employers must therefore do a thorough site review regularly.

By establishing a review committee to enhance its safety systems, SMRT is on the right track (“SMRT directed to implement safety measures after accident”; March 31).

Safety systems can be looked at from many aspects. The processes may cover designing for safety, construction safety, operational safety, maintenance safety and alteration or demolition safety.

The relevant authorities that have come together to assist in the investigation into the recent accident, and to form a review panel, should be commended when their hard work improves workplace safety and elevates benchmarks.

The two fatalities mark the loss of two Singaporean talents; their demise would have a marked impact on their families. I hope they rest in peace.

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