Posted By Philip McAleenan
Alex,
Two minutes on the search engine threw up a vast amount of information. Type in “country name labour law” and you will find what you need. You can begin with the following links and take it from there,
Oman Labour Law, http://directory-oman.com/labourlaw.htm

Abu Dhabi labour law, http://business.abudhabi..._pageLabel=p1568&lang=en

Qatar labour law, http://www.qatarembassy.net/Qatar_Labour_Law.asp

Additional laws and interpretations in the Emirates can be obtained at these links,

Labour law for Dubai, http://www.dubailabor.co...rticles.php?lng=en&pg=13 (then click the left side bar for the various chapters)

UAE Labour law, pdf version, http://www.gulftalent.co...y/ext/UAE_Labour_Law.pdf

And for an interpretation of the UAE laws,
http://www.zu.ac.ae/libr...cuments/UAELabourLaw.pdf

Regards, Philip

Posted By Sanjay B

I can give you the Abu dhabi code of construction .send me your personnel e mail id.

Regards,

Deepak

Posted By Alex.wilkes
Thanks for that Andrew.

Anybody anything for Qatar or Oman?

Posted By Philip McAleenan
Alex,

It is not always necessary to have the laws spelt out in depth. For example, the Oman law states,

“Every employer or employer's representative must, before hiring an employee, acquaint him with the hazards of his occupation and the preventive measures, which must be adopted. The employer must take the necessary precautions to protect the employees during the work from injury to their health and dangers of work and machinery ...”

Note the second sentence, “must take the necessary precautions to protect the employees...” Spelling out what those precautions are limits the effectiveness of the law, but stated in this way the employer must seek out all that is necessary to protect his employees within the provisos stated in the succeeding paragraphs...
1. Providing adequate safety and hygienic conditions in places of work or the tools he delivers to the employees for carrying out their duties.
2. Making sure that places of work are always clean and comply with the conditions of health, safety and occupational health.
3. Making sure that machineries, pieces of equipment and equipment are installed and kept in safe condition.

The main thing is that how you maintain the safety of workers is the same in any and all similar workplaces, wherever they are. The laws of the land do not change what is necessary for protecting someone from, for example, falling. It will be the same whether it is in Oman, Qatar or indeed in Ireland. Good safety practice will always meet the requirements of the law, which at the end of the day simply means “do not harm your workers”.

If you need more go directly to the relevant government ministries, contact someone at the Middle East IOSH branch (e-mail middle-east@iosh.co.uk and website www.iosh-middleeast.com ) or BHB in the UAE (ask for Trevor or Mark, mark@bhb.ie tel: +971 4391 2276).

Hope this helps, Philip

Posted By Alex.wilkes
I knew I had a copy floating here somewhere.

Quote from OHSAS

The organisation shall establish, implement and maintain a procedure for identifying and accessing legal and other requirements that are applicable to it.

'The organisation shall ensure that these applicable legal requirements and other requirements to which the organisation subscribes are taken into account in establishing, implementing and maintaining its OH&S managment system.

Organisations shall keep this information up-to-date.

Organisations shall communicate relevant information on legal and other requirements to persons working under the control of the organisation, and other relevant interested parties'

Thats what I am trying to do. I am trying to establish a system so i can keep these up to date.

Posted By Andrew Lochlyn Ure
Alex

As regards Oman, the Oman Labour Law is by no means definitive and only part of the picture.

There is an old Ministerial Decree (Occupational Health and Industrial Safety Precautions dated 5/6/1982) available from the HSE Homepage of the company I work for (use this link http://www.pdo.co.om/hse...ocumentation/hsedocs.htm). This will also bring up a list of the considerable number of environmental regulations which are taken very seriously.

The old Industrial Safety Precautions have been updated by a Ministerial Decree 286/2008 which was enacted last year, and is due to become effective in July of this year after a year's grace. At the moment I can't point you towards a copy of this as there is nothing available on the Omani Ministry of Manpower website. However - having seen a copy it does advance things on a bit, but by the same token shouldn't give any reasonably professional company much to worry about.

Regards

Andrew

Posted By bill strachan1
Well when you find them Alex, be sure and let me know

Posted By Alex.wilkes
Hossam I am afraid that you are wrong there buddy. I now have standards for Oman, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain