SINGAPORE, Aug 4 — Two firms here have been issued with stop-work orders and fined after recent inspections found unsafe conditions at their worksites, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said in a Facebook post today.

The two companies, CAD Associates and KHC Development, were handed fined amounting to S$21,000 (RM67,894) and S$20,000 respectively.

Sebastian Tan, MOM’s director of occupational safety and health inspectorate, labelled the conditions at the two worksites as "appalling and unacceptable” and called on contractors to step up their efforts to keep worksites safe for workers.

Enforcement efforts have been ramped up with stiffer penalties imposed on companies with poor workplace safety and health practices to curb the spike in workplace fatalities, the ministry said.

Among the breaches found at the two worksites were: