133 initiatives included in Dubai Roads’ five-year plan for health, safety and environment

The Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai launched its new five-year health, safety and environment plan 2024-2028, through which it aims to enhance the leadership level in following the best global occupational safety and health standards in all its projects and services. This step comes within the Authority’s efforts to provide a positive work environment in accordance with the highest standards for employees and users of its services, in line with the third goal of the Authority’s strategic plan, which is to enhance transportation safety, provide a safe environment for the community, support the integration of means of transportation, ensure safe and flexible transportation, and enhance continuity. Business in the Emirate of Dubai.

The five-year plan includes more than 133 specific initiatives to be implemented over a period of five years. These initiatives will focus on several main axes in their implementation, the most prominent of which are: applying artificial intelligence and employing Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies during monitoring and managing health, safety and environment in the Authority’s activities, with a focus on: To ensure continuity of efforts to reach the highest levels of safety.

Executive Director of the Strategy and Corporate Governance Sector at the Roads and Transport Authority, Mona Al-Osaimi, said: “The Authority’s launch of the five-year plan confirms its keenness to continuously develop health and safety systems, to ensure the health and safety of its employees and users of the Authority’s services and facilities, which would provide an ideal and positive work environment.” For everyone. This plan also reflects the Authority’s efforts to strengthen its position as one of the world’s leading entities in adopting the highest health and safety standards in the transportation and infrastructure sector.”

Al-Osaimi added: “The five-year health, safety and environment plan 2024-2028 includes four basic pillars, including: enhancing the health and safety of employees and customers, improving mental health, positivity at work, and enhancing the sustainability of the surrounding environment, which has become entrenched in the authority’s professional performance in following the development approach.” sustainable, rationalizing energy use, reducing carbon emissions, and enhancing institutional maturity.”

She explained that in developing the new plan, the evaluation of all the Authority’s projects and initiatives was taken into account, and it also relied on measuring the impact of applying and employing modern technologies, in order to achieve the strategic directions of the Dubai government and the UAE in general, noting that the five-year plan will make a significant impact on safety, public health, and environmental sustainability, to As well as enhancing the flexibility of the road and transportation infrastructure in the Emirate of Dubai.