Singapore’s WSH performance in 1H 2025
On 30 Sept 2025, MOM released Singapore’s Workplace Safety and Health’s performance for 1H 2025. In addition to a reduction in workplace fatal injury rate from 1.0 in 1H2024 to 0.92 1H2025, the annualized major injury rate per 100,000 workers fell to an all-time low of 15.5 from 16.6 for the same period last year.
Revised List of Occupational Diseases
(w.e.f. 1 Dec 2025)
At the same time, the Ministry also officially announced the revised list of occupational diseases, which will take effect from 1 Dec 2025.
The key changes in the list are :
Diseases caused by physical agents
- Noise-induced hearing loss (previously “noise-induced deafness”)
- Cataracts due to infra-red, ultraviolet or ionising radiation (previously “Cataracts due to infra-red, ultraviolet or x-ray radiation” and not in WSHA
Musculoskeletal Disorder
- Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (previously “Musculoskeletal disorders of the upper limb”)
Conditions removed from OD lists
- Poisoning by carbon dioxide gas
- Ulceration of the corneal surface of the eye
Diseases caused by chemical agents
- Poisoning by aniline (previously not in WICA)
- Poisoning by beryllium (previously not in WICA)
- Toxic anaemia (previously not in WICA)
Diseases caused by biological agents
- Glanders (previously not in WSHA)
- Occupational infectious diseases (previously “Tuberculosis”)
Cancers (Malignant diseases)
- Occupational liver angiosarcoma (previously “liver angiosarcoma”)
- Malignant mesothelioma (previously “Mesothelioma”)
For more information, refer to MOM’s website link below.
