This is the third installment of my blog series on the health, safety, and environmental (HSE) regulatory landscape across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and provides an overview of the international agreements related to environmental protection and their status across the GCC.
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HSE Regulatory Requirements Across the GCC Part 2: International Agreements Related to Worker Health and Safety
This is the second installment of my blog series on the health, safety, and environmental (HSE) regulatory landscape across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and provides an overview of the international agreements related to worker health and safety and their status across the GCC.
HSE Regulatory Requirements Across the GCC Part 1: Overview and Common Audit Findings
his is the first instalment of my blog series on the health, safety, and environmental (HSE) regulatory landscape across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and provides an overview of the GCC, key HSE challenges across the GCC, common findings from HSE regulatory compliance audits conducted across the region and difficulties facing companies operating across the GCC in complying with HSE regulations.
Introducing TIPS – Today’s Incident Prevention System
Notwithstanding the claims promoted by many companies of their million upon millions of hours of work done without a loss time incident, we are all very much aware that accidents happen. (If interested on my thoughts on the incident reporting scam please read this blog post – Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics and Loss Time Injuries).Accidents […]
Out-of-Site, Out-of-Mind – Leaks from Buried Concrete Structures
In my last blog post I discussed the issue of vapor instruction into buildings from subsurface sources, namely contaminated underlying soils and groundwater. In the article, I want to go into a bit more detail on one of the more common sources of site soil and groundwater contamination – that of leaks from underground structures […]