Safety and Quality Standards Committee (SQSC)

In September 2001, the work of Mechanical Standards Committee, the Industrial Safety Standards Committee and the Packaging Standards Committee were converged and undertaken by the General Engineering and Safety Standards Committee (GESSC) to support national initiatives in improving productivity, enhancing quality and promoting a safer and healthier workplace. The GESSC was renamed as Quality and Safety Standards Committee (QSSC) in April 2017 following an expansion of the scope of the committee.

In April 2023, QSSC was renamed as Safety and Quality Standards Committee (SQSC) with a renewed emphasis on safety. SQSC focuses on the development and promotion of key standards for products, processes and practices related to workplace safety and health and sports safety, and management systems, processes and capabilities in areas of business continuity, organisational resilience, emergency management, protective security, quality management, risk management and compliance. The SQSC also supports the testing, inspection and certification industry through development of conformity assessment standards.

The Safety and Quality Standards Committee (SQSC) has published and presently oversees the following standards across four technical domains:

181

Total Standards

Standard deliverables include Singapore Standards and Technical References. Standards are developed primarily through adoption of international standards and development with inputs from industry.

159

Singapore Standards (SS)

Singapore Standards (SS) are nationally recognised documents, established by consensus. They are functional or technical requirements in the form of specifications for materials, product system or process, codes of practice, methods of test, terminologies and guides.

Technical References (TR)

Technical References (TR) are transition documents developed to help meet urgent industry demand on a particular product, process or service in an area where reference standards are not available. Unlike Singapore Standards, TRs are not gazetted and are issued without the consensus process.

Structure of SQSC

Scope of SQSC

Conformity Assessment
Management Systems
Personal Safety and Health
Safety and Health Involving Use of Equipment
Sports Safety
Workplace Safety and Health

Composition of SQSC

Role	Name	Representing
Chair	Ms Jaime Lim	Individual Capacity
Dy Chair	Mr Ong Liong Chuan	Individual Capacity
Dy Chair	Mr Seet Choh San	Individual Capacity
Advisor	Mr Chan Yew Kwong	Individual Capacity
Member	Ms Delphine Fong Hung Ying	Sport Singapore
Member	Dr Danny Ker Boon Keet	Individual Capacity
Member	Mr Koh Yeong Kheng	Association of Small and Medium and Enterprises
Member	Ms Adeline Kooi	National Trade Union Congress
Member	Mr Bernard Kwok Hon Mun	Ministry of Manpower
Member	Mr Danny Lien	Singapore Productivity Association
Member	Mr Lim Kee Huat	Society of Loss Prevention in the Process Industrie
Member	Er. Lim Sui Soon	Singapore Institution of Safety Officers
Member	Mr Neville Loh Thian Yeow	Association of Process Industry
Member	Mr Loh Yeow Meng	Temasek Polytechnic
Member	Er. Ng Siew Wah	The Institution of Engineers, Singapore
Member	Mr Srinivasan Ramabhadran	dss+
Member	Mr Kenneth Siew	The Singapore Contractors Association Limited
Member	Assoc Prof Sin Siang-Meng, Ivan	National University of Singapore
Member	Mr Sze Thiam Siong	Singapore Manufacturing Federation – Testing, Inspection and Certification Interest Group
Member	Mr Andy Tan	Ministry of Home Affairs
Member	Mr Jonathan Wan	Individual capacity
Member	Mr Francis Wee Terk Meng	JTC Corporation
Member	Mr Winston Yew Eng How	Workplace Safety and Health Council
Member	Ms Brenda Zhuang Sijia	Tan Tock Seng Hospital Pte Ltd
Secretary	Mr Ivan Loh Ting Bin	Singapore Manufacturing Federation – Standards Development Organisation