Qatar stands at number one among the regional countries in terms of workers’ rights and welfare initiatives. With a bright track record of protecting rights of huge workforce of immigrant workers, Qatar has won international accolade time and again and the country is on a constant mission to bring more comfort in the lives of workers.
The Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SC) has launched a smartphone app to help construction workers improve their professional and personal lives during their time in Qatar.
Following an initial pilot with 250 workers, “Madad SC Workers” has been rolled out to all 22,000 workers engaged on SC infrastructure projects.
Initiated by the SC’s Workers’ Welfare Department and Special Projects Office, in collaboration with Qatar Innovation Community, the app was developed to leverage the overwhelming number of workers who use smartphones and would benefit from a customized platform capable of enhancing their everyday lives.
The app gives users a set of services, including streamlined finance and remittance options, easy communication with family and friends, increased awareness of leisure and social activities, access to health and nutrition advice, access to SC’s work grievance hotline, participation in regular surveys, storing soft copies of personal documents, such as Qatar ID and passport, access to all key emergency telephone numbers, and location maps of ATMs, parks and health centers.
As various organizations in Qatar are striving to make immigrant workers’ lives more comfortable, they have also adopted international standards for construction workers’ occupational safety.
Qatar Rail’s Doha Metro project has achieved a great distinction among similar mega projects in the world by reducing its Accident Frequency Rate (AFR) to lowest 0.021.
There is continuous improvement in AFR in Doha Metro project of Qatar Rail which has dropped from 0.034 in June 2017 to 0.021 in June 2018 while industry standard AFR stands at 0.05.
The Doha Metro project has achieved an accident frequency rate (AFR) of 0.021 at the 86 percent completion mark, among the lowest AFR ever achieved on any similar mega projects and far below the industry standard.
Qatar Rail and its partners continue to build on and improve this performance with strict accountability and transparency, and through an unwavering commitment to proper supervision, training and education.
With more than 560 million man-hours, more than 82,000 workforce and 425, 000 inductions, Qatar Rail imparted training for 1,630,000 hours for its workers to ensure their occupational safety and health.
