Readymix Gulf: Promoting Worker Ownership of Health and Safety
Keen to raise his workers health and safety risk awareness and provide them with the tools to manage and reduce risk on a daily basis, manager Wayne Terry engaged Impactt to deliver training to his workers at Readymix Gulf as a part of the company’s Safety Month.
As site manager of the Sharjah and Ajman [...]
UAE companies work in partnership to tackle health and safety in construction
In the absence of a government body like the UK’s Health and Safety Executive companies in the UAE have formed a partnership to share information on health and safety risks and best practices. In operation since October 2007 Build Safe UAE (BSU), as the partnership is known, now has 88 membership organisations from all [...]
Impactt MENA on the conference circuit in Dubai
With the Dubai Centre for Responsible Business’s ‘Responsible Business Dialogue’ on Monday, the UAE Ministry of Labour’s ‘Labour and Human Rights Conference‘ on Tuesday and the ‘GCC Leadership Summit on Labour Management‘ on Wednesday, it has been a busy week for Impactt MENA!
As you will have seen from our blogs of the past few [...]
What about labour standards in other sectors in UAE?
As you will have seen from the Impactt newsfeed and blog, there has been significant coverage recently on the conditions for migrant construction workers in Dubai and the UAE. What it often not realised however, is that there is also a thriving manufacturing industry in operation here which is well placed to serve global [...]