The Permanent Committee for Workers Affairs in Dubai has issued a guide containing preventive measures to combat the new "Covid 19" virus for workers, drivers and workers housing supervisors, distributed to 500 companies in Dubai, to ensure their health and safety.
The guide comes within a package of extensive and extensive awareness-raising initiatives and campaigns implemented by the committee on ways of prevention and protection to be followed to combat the new "Covid 19" virus, targeting companies throughout the Emirate of Dubai and workers housing and work sites in the various emirates, in order to spread awareness among these. The category and guiding it on the preventive measures that must be taken by it, and that comes within the framework of the preventive efforts and the precautionary measures taken to combat this epidemic.
"The committee is keen to provide the best working conditions for all workers in the Emirate of Dubai, and in all circumstances, to ensure their health and safety," said Deputy Director of the General Administration of Residency and Foreigners Affairs, Chairman of the Permanent Committee for Labor Affairs in the Emirate of Dubai, Major General Obaid Muhair bin Surur.
He added that the committee is doing its utmost to support the tremendous efforts made at the emirate level to address this epidemic that has swept the world, and it is our duty and responsibility to continue awareness-raising efforts to ensure the highest levels of protection, especially with the expansion of sterilization operations in the Emirate of Dubai around the clock every day, with the aim of accelerating the fight against The emerging virus and ensuring its elimination as soon as possible.
He explained that the committee was keen to provide workers with contact numbers for the Health Authority, Dubai Police or the Labor Committee, and an educational video was prepared to broadcast in several languages on how to protect the worker’s health and how to deal with the disease if any injury occurred.
Field access
The team of the Permanent Committee for Workers Affairs in Dubai made a field visit to the workers' homes, since the date of March 15th, to guide workers and educate them with preventive measures to protect against the "Covid 19" virus, and to ensure that workers are familiar with the health and safety regulations and requirements and verify their commitment to them, as Guidance and awareness posters were distributed to workers' accommodations, in Arabic, Urdu, Hindi and English, to urge them to adhere to health precautions in dealing with the epidemic, and sterilize and personal hygiene tools distributed to them.