COVID 

Safe Workforce
 COVID Safe Workforce

Responsibility/ Employer Employee

Criteria
1 Good Health Status of Workers √ √
2 Ensure a Contactable and Traceable Workforce  √ √
and Workplace
3 Awareness on COVID‐19 √ √
4 Workforce Wellbeing √ √
5 Workforce Management √ ‐‐
6 Emergency Preparedness for Suspected COVID‐19  √ √
Cases
7 Responsibilities and Care Beyond Working Hours √ √

Please refer to: http://go.gov.sg/bca‐restart‐criteria
Today’s Focus  Today’s Focus
Responsibilities/ Criteria Overview of Criteria

1
Good health status of workers
Adopt a system to track health status of workers, 
including ensuring regular testing and surveillance (e.g. 
2 Ensure a Contactable and  swabbing)
Traceable Workforce and 
Workplace

3 Ensure workers attend training on their personal 
Awareness on COVID‐19
responsibilities

7
Responsibilities And Care Beyond  Manage workers’ movements
Working Hours
 1 Good Health Status of Workers
Party who Responsibilities/ Duty
should perform
• Ensure employees undergo regular swab tests and fulfil the swab test
requirements for the various types of employees involved in the respective types
of works
• Employers must require employees to conduct regular temperature screening
and check for COVID-19 related respiratory symptoms for all employees twice
daily, and keep the record for minimum of 28 days for inspection by any
Employers government agency.

• Must ensure that they are: a) NOT on quarantine orders or stay home notices
and b) tested COVID-19 negative at any MOH-recognised facilities once every
14 days to continue working

• To check temp twice daily and keep record for 28 days

Employees • To inform supervisor if he is unwell and see doctor
Who should be Swabbed, Swabbing Frequency and How?
Workforce  Working at construction sites1 Not working at construction sites 

Renovation works Company 
/Facilities management/Lift & Escalator  Office 
Maintenance etc Premises
S‐Pass, Work  To undergo swab test (and tested  May proceed to start work while waiting  Nil
Permit holders  negative) before being allowed to start  for swab test arrangement. 
from the  work. Subsequently, will be subjected to  Subsequently, subjected to regular swab 
Construction sector regular swab test, once every 2 weeks. test, once every 2 weeks.

• This requirement will also apply to S‐
Pass and Work Permit holders from 
other sectors)
• Swabbing requirements for landed 
property project, site maintenance, site 
safety, vector control, I&M, apply only 
after construction works have restarted
However,  those who were carrying out Earlier Permitted Activities can continue to 
work, but to undergo swab test by 15 June

For those residing in dormitories, they may only allowed to resume works after their dormitories are cleared
1Construction sites includes “Construction Projects” and “Supply Works” as listed under Table 1 of BCA’s advisory dated 25 May, 

and building works for single dwelling landed properties
Who should be Swabbed, Swabbing Frequency and How?

Workforce Working at construction sites1 Not working at construction sites 

Renovation works Company Office 
/Facilities management/Lift &  Premises
Escalator Maintenance etc
Singapore  To undergo swab test (and tested negative) within 
Citizens/  first 2 weeks of starting work. Subsequently, will 
Permanent  be subjected to regular swab test, once every 2 
Residents/  weeks
Employment  Nil
Pass holders  • Swabbing requirements for site maintenance, 
from all  site safety, vector control, I&M, apply only after 
sectors construction works have restarted

1Construction sites includes “Construction Projects” and “Supply Works” as listed under Table 1 of BCA’s advisory dated 25 May, 

and building works for single dwelling landed properties
2 Ensure a Contactable and Traceable Workforce and 
Workplace
Party who Responsibilities/ Duty
should perform
• Must update the employees’ valid information on MOM’s website within 7
days prior to the submission date of Application for Restart and submit a copy
of the updates done on MOM’s website to BCA. Employers should update their
employees’ information on MOM website timely and regularly

• Submit information of all workers listed in application to start work, e.g. :

 Name  Workers’ residences
 Fin  Occupation
 Contact details

Employers • Ensure all workers have valid devices to use Tracetogether and
SGworkpass apps and comply with SafeEntry requirements, and encourage
employees to have access to their mobile devices to stay contactable at all
times, where reasonably practicable
• Monitor movements of all their employees from the accommodation and keep
records for at least 28 days
3 Awareness of COVID‐19
Party who should Responsibilities/ Duty
perform
• Must ensure that employees (all Construction Work Permit holders and
S Pass holders, including the COVID Safe Workers’ Leader of every
20 employees) attend and pass the mandatory training on their roles
and responsibilities to stay COVID-Safe.
• Should provide educational materials on prevention of COVID-19 and
good practices of personal hygiene to all employees (Refer to NEA and
MOH guidelines on good practices to maintain personal hygiene in preventing COVID-19
virus)
Employers • Should conduct briefings monthly to employees on good practices to
prevent COVID-19 and procedures to report on COVID-19 related
matters

• Before starting work, employees must attend and pass the mandatory
training on their roles and responsibilities
Employees
7 Responsibilities and Care Beyond Working Hours
Party who should Responsibilities/ Duty
perform
• Should ensure that employees stay at their accommodation after working
hours, including on their rest days as social contact remains restricted.
Please refer to MOM’s website for further updates

• Employers must indicate in the Application Form if the projects are subjected
to the NEA’s “No-Work Rule on Sunday and Public Holidays” at the point
Employers of Application for Restart
• Employers are required to stagger employees’ off day throughout the week

• Should stay at their accommodation after working hours, including on their rest
days as social contact remains restricted
Employees
For Info
 Where They Stay, Swabbing Frequency and How?
WHO?
All construction work permit
holders and S Pass holders
Singapore Citizens /Permanent
Residents/ Employment Pass
holders working on construction
sites
(includes all full-time and part-time
employees, such as resident
engineers, resident technical officers,
consultants, project managers and,
personnel attending on-site meetings.)
FREQUENCY ACCOMODATIONS HOW?
Must be tested  Dormitories Government will arrange for 
‐ve to resume  testing after dormitories are 
work.  cleared
And be tested  Non‐dormitories e.g. HDBs  Employers can log in and 
regularly (Once  and private residential  book swab appointments 
every 2 weeks)  premises on behalf of them, via an 
following that online swab registration 
system.
Must be tested 
‐ve to resume 
Non‐dormitories e.g.  Employers can log in and book 
work. 
HDBs and private  swab appointments on behalf 
residential premises of them, via an online swab 
Be tested  registration system.
regularly (Once 
every 2 weeks) 
 Who should be Trained and How?
WHO? WORKING PREMISES BEFORE RESTART
All Construction Work Permit holders and S Pass On Construction Site Need to attend and 
holders & COVID Safe Workers’ Leader
pass Training
Non‐ Construction Site
Singapore Citizens/ Permanent Residents providing
technical support in the BE sector (including crane On Construction Site
operators, Rigger and Signalman, employees supporting Need to attend and 
integrated construction and prefabrication hub (ICPH) work,
pass Training
plasterers, painters, carpenters, pipe fitters, glaziers, facilities
management (FM), Lift and Escalator (L&E) maintenance and
Non‐ Construction Site
upgrading, insignificant building works and renovation works)
Singapore Citizens /Permanent Residents Nil. 
performing planning and supervision role, On Construction Site (Engagement will be 
supporting administrative matters in the BE sector established to raise 
(e.g. Project Manager, Engineers, Architects, Quantity awareness on 
Surveyors, RE, RTO, BIM Managers/ Modellers, Admin/ Non‐ Construction Site preventing COVID‐19 
Finance personnel) on‐site)
For more details on the COVID‐Safe Training for Workers Supporting the Built Environment, please visit www.bcaa.edu.sg/BESafe