Ministry of Labour organizes a workshop on "Occupational Safety Indicators in 2022"

28-01-2023

The Ministry of Labour organized a specialized workshop entitled "Occupational Safety Indicators in 2022", as part of its efforts to enhance the protection and safety of workers at various production sites. A number of occupational safety and health officials from various private sector establishments also participated in this workshop. It dealt with occupational safety requirements and standards and ways to apply them in the workplace. The workshop reviewed the most important features of occupational safety and health in 2022, and the proactive and preventive efforts made by the Ministry by intensifying inspection visits and following up on complaints and observations on work sites. In addition, it showed the most important lessons learned from occupational accidents that occurred, their causes and how to take corrective actions to ensure that they do not recur. The workshop also focused on identifying the important role of occupational safety and health officials in private sector establishments in reducing occupational accidents and injuries. The workshop touched on the correlation between occupational safety indicators and other indicators such as the urban development witnessed by the Kingdom of Bahrain and the subsequent increase in construction work sites. In addition, other labour market indicators related to the level of qualification and training of workers to carry out some specialized work, the role of labour law in the private sector and the decisions regulating the reduction of occupational injuries and accidents were discussed. At the end of the workshop, a set of recommendations were reviewed, most notably working on licensing some practitioners of technical activities in the field of construction, by requiring the measurement of competence in specialization for contractors and workers of establishments. These recommendations also included the importance of intensifying visits to reduce unsafe practices and conditions in the workplace.