Keppel Shipyard, a member of Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited, (Keppel O&M) will build a safety training complex dedicated to further equip its entire 14,000 workforce with safety knowledge and competencies.

The plan was unveiled at the launch of Keppel Group’s “Safety Starts with Me - Together We Care” campaign on 2 June, 2009.

To be sited next to the Keppel Offshore & Marine Group Training Centre in the premises of Keppel Shipyard’s Tuas Yard, the safety training complex will be the leading integrated safety training centre for its multi-national workforce, including all its subcontractors.

When completed by the end of the year, the Safety Training Complex will be the first such training centre in Singapore.

Mr Tong Chong Heong, Chief Executive Officer of Keppel O&M, said, “Beyond equipping our direct workers, we will also be providing all our resident subcontractors with essential safety training at the complex for free.

“All our resident subcontract workers will get to enjoy the same set of safety awareness and competency training as our own direct workers so that we can achieve a consistent safety standard and a common safety mindset across Keppel Shipyard.”

The training complex covers all aspects of safety training with special focus on height safety, confined space safety, electrical safety and material handling safety.

It will comprise three levels of classroom training, a fire fighting training simulator, a marine metal scaffolding training area, a riggers and signalmen training area and a six level mid-ship safety module built to simulate the work environment.

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