What is it about?
The article mainly discuss the occupational safety and health regulations in general and describe how the economic cost associated with occupational accidents can be reduced through effective regulations. The occupational safety and health regulations applicable on different industries including construction in Oman are particularly discussed in this paper. While safety is everyone responsibility, the government in Oman shows a greater interest to improve the safety performance of industrial organizations and reduce injuries. An awareness of the benefits from improved safety performance will encourage organization to invest on safety.
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Why is it important?
Poor occupational safety and health (OS&H) results in an economic burden of 4% of the total world Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Effective OS&H regulations and their implementation are one of the main factors in achieving an improved safety performance. Industrial organizations normally reluctant to invest on safety, as they have less awareness of benefits from such investment. Adopting and implementing the occupational safety and health regulations in organizations are in their own interest. This not only reduce the cost associated with accidents but also maximize the production.
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This was a great opportunity for me to lead a multi-national team which was having members from UK, India and Uganda. It is very important to know the key elements which contributes to safety output. One of the factors which we identified is the occupational safety and health regulations and it implementations. It is also important that such regulations needs to be review on periodic basis to effectively sever the industry requirement.
Dr. Tariq Umar
Kingston University
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This page is a summary of: Occupational Safety and Health Regulations in Oman, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Management Procurement and Law, April 2018, ICE Publishing,
DOI: 10.1680/jmapl.18.00007.
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