Keeping Your Home & Workplace Safe and Healthy (Reducing Risk and Hazards)

Aims of Project

• To gain awareness and explicit knowledge and understanding about various hazards and risks that may affect our health, well-being and safety in the spaces that we live and work in.

• To develop and test the efficacy of a range of methods and tools to detect and identify the various hazards in our built-up and exterior environment such as air, water, surfaces, soil etc.

• To generate best practices, methodologies and approaches to design better spaces, including M&E, Plumbings, fittings and finishings etc that reduce risk of hazards.

Nature of Project

• To conduct literature research on Health-related risks and hazards that we may encounter in our every day lives.

• To identify approaches, methodologies, technologies, tools and best practices that enable us to detect, identify and reduce risk in our spaces.

• To visit, capture and document good practices, policies, codes and behaviors that reduce risk of hazard.

• To obtain, trial and test devices that measure qualitative, quantitative indexes & parameters of safety or risk.

About the Singapore Environment Council

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Table of Risks and Proposed Mitigation Strategies