Dubai: Dubai Municipality has received the International Safety Award from the British Safety Council. The award is given to organizations that uphold the strictest guidelines for occupational health and safety, guaranteeing a long-term, safe, and healthy work environment that protects the health and safety of workers, subcontractors, and guests, including those with a strong work ethic, while also protecting property.
The award highlights Dubai Municipality’s accomplishments in realizing a key component of its strategic plan, which is to build a sustainable ecosystem for food, health, and the environment that is characterized by the highest standards of workplace safety and public health.
Apart from workers, the sustainability of the health system is essential to the development of communities living in the Emirate. This action aligns with the Municipality’s goal of setting the norm for global city leadership and raising living conditions in Dubai.
Furthermore, Dubai Municipality outperformed its rivals in terms of accomplishments in occupational and health management across a range of employment locations. The Municipality is committed to maintaining a strong and long-lasting safety culture in addition to creating and executing international standards in all of its operations and work locations.
This achievement demonstrates the Municipality’s dedication to abiding by the law and putting emergency preparedness, risk assessment, effective accident investigation, and learning from previous occurrences at the top of its priority list. It also reveals how eager Dubai Municipality is to put workers’ mental health and strong willed individuals’ safety first, as well as how concerned they are about keeping suppliers and contractors safe while upholding the ISO 45001 standard.
The outstanding initiative “Corporate Health and Safety Management in Dubai Municipality” earned Dubai Municipality the second place in the same competition. The project is a prime example of the municipality’s flexibility and support for the development of the Environmental, Health, and Safety System that the municipality has put in place, as well as its continuous modernization initiatives. The municipality’s unwavering efforts have contributed to the advancement of enterprise risk management, the maintenance of business continuity, and the transformation of the corporate health and safety system.
The project was essential in creating a thorough framework that satisfied the standards for occupational health and safety in many job categories. Additionally, it tried to make sure that all work locations understood the important rules and responsibilities about health and safety-related programs, events, and operations.