Legislation

Omani Labor Law (Royal Decree Nš: 35/2003)

The Labor Law includes several Articles that have direct relation with the Occupational safety and health, such as:

• Article 18: The worker shall be void of diseases
• Article 27: The worker shall comply with the occupational safety and health instructions.
• Article 33: The work owner shall provide free medical care for the worker.
• Article 40: It is possible to dismiss a worker breaking the occupational safety and health instructions.
• Article 41: The worker may leave work if the employer violates the occupational safety and health instructions.
• Articles 61 to 67: Ordinary and sick leaves
• Articles 68 to 74: Determining the working hours
• Articles 75 to 79: Youngsters employment procedures
• Articles 80 to 86: Women employment procedures
• Article 87: The institutions owners shall inform the workers about the occupational hazards
• Article 88: The worker's duties
• Article 89: Specifying the occupational safety and health procedures by a ministerial resolution
• Article 90: Supervisors' tasks
• Articles 91 to 103; Special provisions concerning employing the workers in mine and stone sites
• Articles 112 to 122: Specifying the penalties concerning hindering the workers, not respecting the leaves systems and the working hours and not respecting the provisions concerning the mines and the stone sites

The Occupation Safety and Health Organizational Regulation in the institutions subject to the Labor Law (Ministerial Resolution Nš: 686/2008)

The regulation includes 43 Articles and 5 tables. This is a summary of its contents:

• Article 1: Definitions
• Article 2: Institutions subject to the regulation provisions
• Articles 3, 4, 5 and 6: Provisions concerning the inspectors
• Article 7: The work owner shall inform the workers about the occupational hazards
• Article 8: The worker's duties
• Articles 9 to 43: The work owners' duties
• Article 9: Providing the individual protection tools
• Article 10: The occupational safety and health program
• Article 11: the occupational safety and health supervisor
• Articles 12, 13 and 14: Dealing with the occupational safety and health department.
• Article 15: conditions concerning the buildings and transporting and storing the work equipments
• Article 16: conditions concerning illumination, aeration, heat, cold, noise and drinking water
• Article 17: conditions concerning the lavatories, the places where the workers sleep, the places where the workers change their clothes and the sitting rooms
• Article 18: work clothes and individual protection equipments specifications
• Articles 19, 20, 21 and 22: the medical examinations and analyses
• Article 23: immunizations
• Article 24: end of service examination
• Article 25: first aid box
• Article 26: nourishment system and enhancing the psychological health
• Article 27: the worker shall inform the work owner about any infractions
• Article 28: women protection
• Articles 29 and 30: disabled protection
• Article 31: fire hazards
• Articles 32 and 33: electric and mechanic hazards
• Article 34: hazards of cranes, heavy equipments and workers' busses
• Article 35: daily work equipments hazards
• Article 36: vapor and air hazards
• Article 37: chemical hazards
• Articles 38, 39 and 40: harmful radiations and cancer hazards
• Article 41: construction, digging and civil engineering works mechanisms
• Article 42: agriculture and animal breeding works
• Article 43: ports works

Tables

• Table 1: illumination levels
• Table 2: limits of exposure to low temperature
• Table 3: limits of exposure to noise
• Table 4: required analyses as per the type of exposure to occupational diseases
• Table 5: limits of exposure to active radiations

Other legislations

There are other legislations concerning the occupational safety and health such as:

• Law 64/2006 concerning insecticides
• Law 46/1995 concerning chemical materials