PAM ensures safe working environs
Many injuries, deaths reported
KUWAIT CITY, April 5: The Public Authority for Manpower (PAM) said the authority will make some amendments to the decision that PAM has issued prohibiting the renewal of work permit for those who have reached the age of 60 and above within two weeks.
The Deputy Director-General for Planning and Administrative Development at the Authority, Eman Al-Ansari, said on the sidelines of an inspection tour in the Shuwaikh Industrial Area, that there are some amendments to the decision which will be announced within two weeks, without revealing their details.
Al-Ansari said in a press statement on the sidelines of the inspection tour on workers in the Shuwaikh Industrial Area, considered the most important area in Kuwait, that it is part of our plan to implement the requirements for shops, workshops and factories from a technical point of view to ensure the provision of a safe working environment for all workers and employers.
She announced that, on a daily basis, we receive no less than 10 cases in all governorates, between severe, moderate and minor injuries, and there are also deaths, wishing employers to apply the technical requirements.
She confirmed other areas also will be covered after the completion of Shuwaikh Industrial Area, so that all places that have industrial works are covered.
She explained that at the beginning of the worker recruitment to work in these technical professions, there must be comprehensive insurance for him, and this is one of the things to educate workers and employers of the necessity of insurance in the event of the worker being injured.
Acting Director of the National Center for Occupational Health and Safety, Engineer Ali Al-Gharib, affirmed that the center’s annual plan comes in response to the requirements of the authority’s strategic plan, which is based on ensuring decent work conditions and improving working conditions by improving inspection services at the central and local levels.
He added that the authority is working to spread the culture of occupational health and safety, increase the technical ability and skill of health and safety inspectors, and reduce the rates of accidents, injuries and occupational accidents related to work, to ensure a safe and sound work environment in all sites and facilities.