REDAS-WSHC Safety Leadership Forum 2025

11 Sep 2025 Forum Past Event Construction and Landscape

  • Date:

    10 Sep 2025

  • Time:

    9:00 AM - 2:00 PM

  • Location:

    Orchard Hotel

  • Spots Available:

    80

  • Event resources:

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This year’s REDAS-WSHC Safety Leadership Forum sent a powerful call to action. The WSH Council named 19 leading organisations joining the WSH Advocate Programme, reinforcing industry-led efforts to strengthen WSH. These newly appointed Advocates have committed to leverage their influence as major service buyers to raise the bar for WSH standards and help their SME contractors build stronger, more resilient capabilities.
  

With the expansion, the WSH Advocates now comprise 37 companies, collectively influencing a workforce of more than 340,000 across their supply chains. This strengthens the movement of organisations committed to entrenching WSH as a core business value and driving sustained improvements in safety culture across industries. 


At the Forum, Minister of State (MOS) for Manpower, Mr Dinesh Vasu Dash, revealed a milestone for the construction industry – fatal and major injuries fell to a 10-year low in the first half of 2025. But with the industry entering a period of significant expansion, he stressed that companies cannot become complacent. Developers and contractors must uphold WSH standards by: 

  • Planning for it, through upstream building design. 
  • Rewarding it, through having paymasters preferring to contract with safer firms. 
  • Leading it, through corporate leaders’ role-modelling safety.
  • Enabling it, through technology. 


A new initiative, the 3P WSH Walkabout was announced to curb the seasonal rise in injuries for the industry. The three Ps stand for “proactive”, “prevention” and “partnerships”. An effective way for the industry to remain safe, companies are encouraged to conduct site walks. They can review WSH procedures, spot risks early on the ground, and drive timely improvements.   
 
Attendees at the Forum got a fresh perspective on safety leadership and roadmaps for developers. An updated REDAS WSH-DfS Good Practice Guide and Library was unveiled, and a compelling case study on risk control gave real-world lessons.   

The event ended on a high note with a lively panel discussion, sparking ideas and views about building safer, healthier and more sustainable workplaces. 

Find out more: 
MOS Dinesh’s Opening Speech 
Video on WSH in Procurement of the Construction Industry