CapitaLand Retail Management (CRM) was fined $24,000 on Tuesday over safety lapses after a foreign worker fell through a false ceiling at Tampines Mall in January 2020 and died in hospital. The 26-year-old Indian national
The scope of its services included an annual cleaning of some aluminium louvres located in the centre of a room on the fifth storey of Tampines Mall. The louvres are a conduit for the mall’s air-conditioner system.
A concrete walkway lined the perimeter of the room. A catwalk by the side of the louvres connected to the concrete walkway at one end of the room. It turned out that he had fallen through the false ceiling and landed on the third storey of Tampines Mall.The prosecutor told the court that CRM had a duty to ensure that the vertical distance between any work platform and the guardrail immediately above it did not exceed 60cm.
This then left an open side of about 1m by 80cm between the vertical bars of the guardrail though which a person could fall.
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