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Occupational Safety and Work-Related Injury Control Efforts in Qatar: Lessons Learned from a Rapidly Developing Economy
Work-related injury (WRI) control is an integral part of occupational safety. In rapidly developing Gulf countries such as Qatar with a predominantly expatriate workforce, WRI control is a complex issue often seen in conjunction with the implementation of labour laws and labour rights. We aimed to i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7559236/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32967300 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186906 |
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author | Consunji, Rafael J. Mehmood, Amber Hirani, Nazia El-Menyar, Ayman Abeid, Aisha Hyder, Adnan A. Al-Thani, Hassan Peralta, Ruben |
author_facet | Consunji, Rafael J. Mehmood, Amber Hirani, Nazia El-Menyar, Ayman Abeid, Aisha Hyder, Adnan A. Al-Thani, Hassan Peralta, Ruben |
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description | Work-related injury (WRI) control is an integral part of occupational safety. In rapidly developing Gulf countries such as Qatar with a predominantly expatriate workforce, WRI control is a complex issue often seen in conjunction with the implementation of labour laws and labour rights. We aimed to implement a public health approach to facilitate efforts to achieve long-term WRI control in Qatar. A range of initiatives helped to gain visibility and momentum for this important public health problem, including identifying and engaging with key stakeholders, workers’ surveys, steps to establish a unified injury database, and the implementation of a WRI identification tool in the electronic medical records. A contemporaneous improved enforcement of existent occupational safety regulations through heightened worksite inspections and efforts to improve living conditions for migrant workers also took place. WRIs are not only a Qatar-specific problem; the same issues are faced by neighbouring Gulf countries and other rapidly developing economies with large expatriate worker populations. These strategies are also useful starting points for similar countries interested in nurturing a safe, healthy and productive workforce. |
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spelling | pubmed-75592362020-10-29 Occupational Safety and Work-Related Injury Control Efforts in Qatar: Lessons Learned from a Rapidly Developing Economy Consunji, Rafael J. Mehmood, Amber Hirani, Nazia El-Menyar, Ayman Abeid, Aisha Hyder, Adnan A. Al-Thani, Hassan Peralta, Ruben Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Work-related injury (WRI) control is an integral part of occupational safety. In rapidly developing Gulf countries such as Qatar with a predominantly expatriate workforce, WRI control is a complex issue often seen in conjunction with the implementation of labour laws and labour rights. We aimed to implement a public health approach to facilitate efforts to achieve long-term WRI control in Qatar. A range of initiatives helped to gain visibility and momentum for this important public health problem, including identifying and engaging with key stakeholders, workers’ surveys, steps to establish a unified injury database, and the implementation of a WRI identification tool in the electronic medical records. A contemporaneous improved enforcement of existent occupational safety regulations through heightened worksite inspections and efforts to improve living conditions for migrant workers also took place. WRIs are not only a Qatar-specific problem; the same issues are faced by neighbouring Gulf countries and other rapidly developing economies with large expatriate worker populations. These strategies are also useful starting points for similar countries interested in nurturing a safe, healthy and productive workforce. MDPI 2020-09-21 2020-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7559236/ /pubmed/32967300 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186906 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Consunji, Rafael J. Mehmood, Amber Hirani, Nazia El-Menyar, Ayman Abeid, Aisha Hyder, Adnan A. Al-Thani, Hassan Peralta, Ruben Occupational Safety and Work-Related Injury Control Efforts in Qatar: Lessons Learned from a Rapidly Developing Economy |
title | Occupational Safety and Work-Related Injury Control Efforts in Qatar: Lessons Learned from a Rapidly Developing Economy |
title_full | Occupational Safety and Work-Related Injury Control Efforts in Qatar: Lessons Learned from a Rapidly Developing Economy |
title_fullStr | Occupational Safety and Work-Related Injury Control Efforts in Qatar: Lessons Learned from a Rapidly Developing Economy |
title_full_unstemmed | Occupational Safety and Work-Related Injury Control Efforts in Qatar: Lessons Learned from a Rapidly Developing Economy |
title_short | Occupational Safety and Work-Related Injury Control Efforts in Qatar: Lessons Learned from a Rapidly Developing Economy |
title_sort | occupational safety and work-related injury control efforts in qatar: lessons learned from a rapidly developing economy |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7559236/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32967300 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186906 |
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