Induction in safety culture

I REFER to the article “Injured Malaysian worker’s suit against S’pore employer: Judge throws out defence’s claim of ‘waiver’ signed’” (The Star, Jan 5, online at bit.ly/star_worker). According to the article, the Singaporean judge had called out the company for falsifying an internal investigation report that was meant to “cure” a failure to file a work permit application on time when they hired the worker in 2018.

Putting the judgment and permit issue aside, what was shocking to me was the timing of the incident. The worker was only in the first week of his job when he suffered multiple skull vault and facial fractures while working on a power-press machine.