SINGAPORE – A new risk committee was formed by the National Environment Agency (NEA) to oversee workplace safety as part of tightened measures in the wake of the fatal Tuas incineration plant explosion in 2021.

Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu recounted the accident in Parliament on Jan 9, telling how three NEA officers were sent to an electrical switch room on Sept 23, 2021, to troubleshoot a fault, after the plant’s control room was unable to remotely switch off an industrial fan.