Скачать или смотреть Construction Week In Focus: Worker welfare at Expo 2020 Dubai [2019]

Expo 2020 Dubai is one of the Middle East’s largest construction projects at present – check out how its site observes health and safety excellence procedures.

Already, 190 countries have confirmed their participation for the event, which will be the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia’s first World Expo when it opens its doors on 20 October, 2020.

Critical to its preparations is the construction work that is currently under way at its 4.38km2 site in Dubai, where thousands of workers are building the structures that will go on to become the architectural and infrastructural highlights of Expo 2020 Dubai.

As Emma Seymour, vice president of worker welfare at Expo 2020 Dubai points out, the health and safety of these people is the organisation’s “number one priority”.

In an exclusive article for Construction Week, Seymour outlines the measures implemented by the Expo 2020 Dubai organising team to ensure that worker welfare is adequately delivered at the megaproject’s site.

Expo 2020 currently has 10 main contractors and approximately 200 subcontractors working on the site. More than 60 million work hours have already been completed, and this figure is expected to rise to about 130 million by the time Expo 2020 Dubai finish the build.

To offer some perspective, this is approximately 50 million more than the number of hours completed ahead of the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics.

Expo 2020 Dubai’s Better Together strategy focuses on collaboration to ensure world-class HSQE and worker welfare standards. Some highlights of Expo 2020 Dubai’s HSQE standards include a 10-point Worker Welfare Policy, in addition to stringent adherence to UAE law, and an extra 117 requirements that are bound into every Expo 2020 Dubai contract.

For example, contractors are required to provide free WiFi for workers.

Its Worker Welfare team regularly monitors and audits contractors and third parties working on the Expo 2020 Dubai site. Expo 2020 has also brought on board several internationally renowned bodies to support oversight, including the UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE), risk consultancy Control Risks, and audit firm PwC.

Before a company can even bid for a contract at Expo 2020 Dubai, it must complete a detailed questionnaire about its worker welfare practices.

Once invited to tender, the firm must agree to an accommodation audit and inspection of its headquarters by Expo 2020 Dubai’s Worker Welfare team.

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