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Document ID (ISN)48028
CIS number 87-962
Year 1983
Convention or series no.
Title Guidebook for MRT contractors
Bibliographic information National Productivity Board, Singapore, 1983. 42p.
Abstract A safety guide written for contractors for the Singapore underground railway (subway) construction project. It includes provisions for notification, site management, safety training, site safety measures, specific hazards (shafts and hoists, communications, electricity, rail haulage, diesel engines, hydraulic plant, fires, flooding), welfare facilities, health guidelines for conventional tunnelling (permissible exposure limits for about 40 chemical substances and types of dust, ventilation), safety and health guidelines for compressed air works. A sample identification badge is shown in English and Chinese. The appendices contain various forms, questionnaires and medical record forms of importance.
Descriptors (primary) Singapore; tunnelling; underground work; work in pressurized atmosphere
Descriptors (secondary) locks; flooding; construction sites; compressed air; safety guides; ventilation; fire protection; TLV list; recompression chambers
Document type F - Information notes, codes of practice, standards
Subject(s) Construction industry
Broad subject area(s) Industries and occupations
Browse category(ies) Hyperbaric pressure