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Law No. 14 of 2004 on the promulgation of Labour Law

Law Summary Record Type: LawNumber: 14Date: 19/05/2004 Corresponding to 30/03/1425 HijriNumber of Articles: 150Status: In force

Official Gazette :Issue: 9Offcial Journal Issue Publication Date: 06/07/2004 Corresponding to 19/05/1425 HijriPage from: 229

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Safety, Occupational Health and Social Care

99 Article

The Employer or his representative shall inform each Worker, on commencement of work, of the risks of Work, and what may develop thereof, and shall inform him of the preventive measures to be taken for the protection thereof. Detailed instructions shall be affixed in a conspicuous place stating the professional health and safety means for protection of the Workers from the dangers to which they may be exposed during the performance of their Work.
100 Article

The Employer shall take all precautionary measures for protecting the Workers during the Work from any Occupational injury or disease that may arise from the Work performed in his Establishment or from any accident, fire, defect or breakdown in the machinery and equipment.

The Employer shall not charge his Workers or deduct from their Remuneration any amount for providing these precautions.

In the event that the Employer refrains from taking the aforesaid precautions or in the case of existence of forthcoming danger which threatens the health or safety of the Workers, the Department shall raise the matter to the Minister to pass a resolution for partial or total closure of the Work site or to suspend of one or more machines from work until the causes of the danger cease to exist. In this case, the Employer shall be obliged to pay the Remuneration of the Workers in full during the closure or suspension period.
101 Article

The Worker shall not commit any action or omission with the intention of obstructing the execution of the instructions of the Employer concerning safeguarding the health of the Workers or securing their safety or with the intention of damaging or causing the breakdown of any appliances or equipment prepared for this purpose.

The Worker shall use the protection equipment and the uniform prepared and provided to him by the Employer and shall obey all the Employer's instructions aimed at protecting the Worker from injuries and diseases.
102 Article

The Minister shall, after coordination with the competent authority, issue the necessary decisions for regulating the appliances relating to occupational health and safety in the Establishments as well as specifying and regulating the services and precautionary measures for protecting the Workers during the course of Work from the dangers of work and machinery, methods and complexity thereof and organizing of preventive measures for occupational diseases.
103 Article

The Employer shall take the measures which guarantee the securing of hygiene and good ventilation in the places of Work, and shall provide suitable lighting and potable water for drinking and cleanliness and drainage systems, in accordance with the regulations and decisions to be issued by the competent authorities in this regard
104 Article

The Employer who employs a number of Workers ranging from five to twenty-five shall prepare for them a first aid box supplied with the medicines, tools and equipment to be specified by the Competent Medical Authority. The box shall be placed in a conspicuous location in the Establishment and close to the hands of the Workers. The use of the box shall be entrusted to a Worker trained in providing medical first aid.

If the number of the Workers exceeds twenty-five, a box shall be allotted for each group of a number ranging from five to twenty-five Workers. If the number of the Workers of the Establishment exceeds one hundred, the Employer shall appoint a full-time medical nurse in the Establishment in addition to the first aid boxes.

If the number of the Workers in the Establishment exceeds five hundred, the Employer shall arrange for them a clinic wherein at least one physician and medical nurse shall be employed.
105 Article

Periodical medical examinations shall be made of the Workers exposed to the risk of occupational diseases in different activities. These examinations shall be made at intervals commensurate with the risk of the Work, in accordance with the rules decided by the competent authorities. Such rules shall specify the types of examinations and the intervals at which they are made.

The Employer shall keep the results of these examinations in the special files of the Workers. And if the medical examination reveals infection of the Worker by any occupational disease, the Employer shall notify the Department thereof within three days from date of knowing the result of the checkup.
106 Article

The Employers employing Workers in places distant from the cities to which the normal means of transport do not reach shall provide the following services:
1. Suitable means of transportation or suitable accommodation or both.
2. Potable water.
3. Suitable food supply or means of obtaining the same.
Such places shall be determined by an order from the Minister.
107 Article

The Employer who employs fifty or more Workers shall provide them with the social services to be specified by a Decision of the Minister, taking into consideration the location of the work, the circumstances thereof and the number of the Workers in the Establishment.