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.
Category Archives: Laws and Regulations
Artificial Intelligence in HSE Regulatory Compliance Monitoring (or How to Write a Blog Post in Eight Seconds).
In recent years, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly prevalent across a wide range of industries. One area where AI is having a significant impact is in the field of health, safety, and environment (HSE) regulatory compliance monitoring. With the help of AI, HSE professionals can better monitor and manage compliance with […]
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 […]
Do You Really Need an HSE Legal Register?
There are, at least to me, a surprising number of companies operating without any real idea of their worker health & safety and/or environmental regulatory obligations. This is particularly true in developing countries, where there are undoubtedly many reasons for this lack of understanding of the HSE requirements:blissful ignorance, i.e., lack of awareness of the […]
Asia’s Arsenic Poisoning Crisis – What You Need to Know and What You Can Do About It
What some are calling the largest mass poisoning in history is happening literally under our feet! According to researchers from the University of California and Linkoping University, Sweden, “Bangladesh is grappling with the largest mass poisoning of a population in history because groundwater used for drinking has been contaminated with naturally occurring inorganic arsenic. It […]