Jurong, Senoko fishery ports to get enhanced COVID-19 safe management measures
SINGAPORE: Enhanced safety management measures, such equally restricting access to the marketplace as well as mandatory testing for those entering the ports, volition be implemented at Singapore'southward two fishery ports, Jurong and Senoko.
Information technology comes after the Singapore Nutrient Bureau'south (SFA) investigation into how COVID-xix transmission could have occurred at Jurong Fishery Port, which has get the state's largest infection cluster.
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In a press release on Midweek (Jul 28), SFA outlined enhanced measures in three areas - the entrance, marketplace, every bit well as the wharf and unloading areas of the fishery ports.
At the entrance, all authorised entry laissez passer holders volition now exist required to undergo testing prior to entry, earlier they transition to a seven-day rostered routine testing government. Those who exercise not undergo testing or do non have negative test results will non be allowed to enter the fishery ports.
All foreign delivery drivers must remain in their vehicles for SafeEntry check-in and temperature taking instead of alighting, so equally to reduce intermingling.
SFA said access into the marketplace will be restricted, including limiting the number of seafood traders within the premises at whatsoever fourth dimension. Tenants and workers volition be segregated into groups and should not mingle.
They will have split toilet facilities, likewise every bit meal and smoking areas to reduce intermingling, the press release said.
The agency said surveillance will be stepped up, calculation that house enforcement action volition be taken against those who breach safe management measures.
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At the wharf and unloading area, measures volition exist taken to further reduce contact. Since March last year, foreign fishing crews have non been allowed to land, while foreign delivery drivers take been express to the demarcated areas for unloading or collection of containers. Interaction betwixt fishery port personnel and foreign individuals have been limited to the unloading of goods.
Under the enhanced measures, all unloading action will now be supervised by rubber distancing ambassadors and will also exist monitored via CCTV. Fish containers, such as boxes or crates, will be disinfected prior to drove, and workers must keep their altitude as foreign workers unload the goods.
SFA said the goods can only be picked up later the foreign workers move abroad from the demarcated unloading surface area. All workers volition exist required to attach to a manus hygiene and sanitation authorities, and must wear their masks and gloves when they selection upward the goods, it said.
During her visit to Senoko Fishery Port on Wednesday, Sustainability and the Environment Minister Grace Fu urged stakeholders in the food supply chain, including merchandise visitors and workers at the port, to observe the enhanced measures.
"Nosotros want Senoko Fishery Port to be a safer identify from a public health betoken of view, because information technology's such an of import part of our food supply chain," said Ms Fu.
"A cluster hither will inundate the facility and it volition also, possibly, put our customs at risk."
CUSTOMISED MEASURES FOR JURONG FISHERY PORT
While both fishery ports are distribution hubs, SFA acknowledged that there are unique differences in the sites that may require customised safe management measures.
For instance, larger fishing vessels tend to offload at Jurong Fishery Port. To limit interaction with foreign fishing crew, there volition be dedicated workers operating forklifts or cranes inside the wharf expanse to move seafood from the vessels to the gates for collection by fishery port workers, it said.
SFA said Jurong Fishery Port will reopen on Saturday for tenants to return and make arrangements for the resumption of operations. They will be briefed on the enhanced measures and SFA will work with the industry to facilitate strict compliance.
The agency said that unloading and wholesale activities will be allowed to resume on Aug 2, adding that information technology has conducted two rounds of deep cleaning of the entire site, including disinfecting the tenants' offices, since the temporary closure of Jurong Fishery Port.
Common areas and crates will go along to exist cleaned regularly when Jurong Fishery Port reopens, said SFA.
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