Department of Labour to work with select employers to reduce growing workplace accidents

Asraf Hoosaney

With a total of 245 workplace accidents already recorded for the year, the Ministry of Social Protection’s Department of Labour will be working with select employers to improve workplace conditions and reduce the number of both fatal and non-fatal accidents.

The initiative is expected to be rolled out by September and according to an official from the department, who did not want to be named, there are 62 companies they are expecting to work with. “…We will be inviting these 62 companies to partner with us. What we are going to do is work with those companies that have reported accidents in the past five years. Those companies have reported not only the fatal but the non-fatal accidents. Some of these companies