Will Bahrain be the first country to organise a central organisation for safety?
This proposal was presented everywhere in the GCC at many conferences as a paper and I think other countries in GCC will apply it before us maybe. Because they have a more healthy political situation and are more serious to have such a decision and such improvement, maybe they will apply it before Bahrain – I don’t know. But if I talk about the legislation levels then I can assure you that Bahrain is leading this part because there is a new ministerial order related to safety every three or four years. In total we now have around 30 ministerial orders and other countries in GCC such as Oman and Qatar collect these and call them the new national agenda, taking our orders for guidance. Do you think worker safety will improve in Bahrain over the coming years? Yes, definitely. A part of this also is during our pilot project during summer. Since 2007 there has been one ministerial order for a work ban during peak period in summer from 12pm to 4pm. Before the ban was introduced we would get
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