Legislations related to control measures
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Legislative Requirements
a. The organization should encourage the involvement of employees in H&S decisions and consult
with them when decision is made, change is done, or H&S information is communicated including
when: identifying hazards, assessing risk, deciding control measures, selecting work equipment
and PPE.
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b. The organization should establish committee of employees and employer in the field H&S to
discuss H&S issues, review the control measures taken...
c. The organization should encourage and involve the employees in H&S in the workplace and share
with them through meetings, bulletin boards, emails, or any other communication means, and
reward workers for reporting incidents that can cause injuries and loss.
a. The organization is fully responsible for providing safe and healthy workplace for all employees,
visitors, and any passers who might be affected.
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b. The organization is responsible for providing sufficient resources to achieve the H&S goals
including: financial resources, human resources, technology, infrastructure, equipment, IT
systems, training and experiences.
c. The organization has to identify the roles of all employees who have H&S duties, their
responsibilities, the authorities, and describing them in job description, guidelines, procedures,
and send them to the employees.
e. The organization should notify employees at all levels of H&S. The notification should be through
appropriate communication methods such as emails, posters, presentations,
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a. The organization should ensure that its employees are well-qualified, well-train and have
sufficiently experience to do their H&S duties and responsibilities
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a. The organization should document a list of major H&S risks due to their activities and the control
measures for protection. They should also keep records of documents of learned lessons, national
and international code of practices and standards, case studies...
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a. The organization has to ensure appropriate H&S communication at all levels such as:
• Mail and emails, newsletters, suggestions box,
• Put communications in a place easily seen: safety signs, notice board showing safety policies,
procedures, emergency contact information, emergency procedures, upcoming trainings,
safety posters
• Face-to-face, regular meetings, toolbox meetings, consultations.
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a. The organization is responsible for identifying hazards, assessing risks, and implement required
control measures and monitoring through:
• redesigning operations and procedures to allow risk management and control.
• substitution of mission, equipment, materials, machines with less harmful ones
• Provide PPE to workers
b. The organization should review and update control measures to ensure workers safety
c. The organization should ensure the control measures are complying with Saudi legislations and
all other requirements
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d. The organization should inform all employees they are expected to identify and report H&S risks
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b. Whenever a change takes place in the workplace, the organization should:
• identify hazards due to change
• assess the risks before changing
• implement control measures before change
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The organization should notify contractors of the H&S risks and provide proper training before and
during work; they should inform them of the reporting procedures for injuries, ill-health, and
incidents; and they should inform them of H&S procedures and control measures and monitor them
a. To identify the extent of implementation of H&S policy and controlling of risks, the organization
should ensure that H&S performance is: monitored, measured, and recorded.
b. The performance monitoring should be: proactive and reactive
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c. Proactive monitoring should include:
• monitoring H&S plans and standards
• Inspections of buildings, plants, equipment, and work systems...
• supervising work environment and supervising employee’s health
• compliance with Saudi legislations
d. Reactive Monitoring should identify and report :
• injuries, ill-health, diseases, accidents
• Loss events such as in properties
• improvements in identifying hazards, and protection from risks
The organization should set procedures to evaluate the corrective and preventive measures
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If the corrective and preventive measures to control risks are becoming not sufficient, it has to ensure
taking the new necessary corrective measures on appropriate time
The organization should arrange for continuous development of H&S procedures for: organizational
goals, hazard identifications, risk assessment, results of investigations recommendations, reviews,
learned lessons from incidents, supervision of workers’ health ...