The Ministry of Health has announced that 14 public bus or train staff members have caught COVID-19, but none has been found to have infected commuters.
The training includes how to identify people with dementia, how to approach and communicate with them, and how to reunite them with their families.
5,000 SMRT Trains employees will be getting new uniforms in a brighter shade of red to make them more visible to commuters.
Rail operator announced yesterday that it wants to give its staff more opportunities to suggest and make small improvements in their own work.
SMRT will double the number of ground staff to help commuters with the second month of MRT closures, which will begin tonight.
SMRT's legal options against its employees linked to last month's MRT tunnel flooding will depend on the terms of their staff contracts.
The failure of a group of SMRT staff to carry out maintenance duties leading to an MRT tunnel flooding in October had negated the good work of others.
SMRT chief Desmond Kuek has rallied staff, urging them to learn from tunnel flooding incident and commit to culture of excellence.
SMRT will be taking disciplinary action against six staff from the Building and Facilities Maintenance group while seven managers will face inquiries.
Some SMRT staff in the building and facilities department have owned up to lapses in their work after the company offered them 'amnesty'.
SMRT has asked its rail staff to own up to lapses, without penalty, before it embarks on wide-scale audit and inspection.
More SMRT employees, including 'senior management', were disciplined for their role in the track accident on 22nd March that killed two trainees.
SMRT has completed investigations into the accident that led to the death of two staff, concluding that critical safety procedures were not followed.
A safety procedure to bring oncoming trains to a stop when maintenance staff are crossing the trackway did not take place, resulting in the death of two.
Two SMRT staff were undergoing on-the-job training when they were killed in an accident on the East-West Line on Tuesday (March 22nd) morning.
SMRT is looking into linking more of its staff bonus to bus and rail operations with the aim of getting them to work as a team to ensure smooth operations.
SMRT is offering bigger carrots, hoping that its employees can help it fill 700 places under an improved cash-for-referral scheme.
In a bid to humanise the company, a new advertising campaign by SMRT is being fronted by its rail maintenance and operation staff.
Fingerprints of SMRT staff working in the early hours of the 5th of May at Bishan depot have been obtained by local police.