Task force explores ways to protect construction workers in Singapore

Workers at a construction site in Yishun observing safe distancing during a briefing on April 6. Most construction work was halted when the circuit breaker kicked in the next day. - ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): An industry task force is examining how Covid-19 infections can be prevented in the construction sector when work gradually resumes after the circuit breaker ends, The Straits Times has learnt.

Comprising eight to 10 members of the Singapore Contractors Association Limited (Scal), it is working with the authorities to devise new practices, said Scal first vice-president Lee Kay Chai.