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