Oman: Private sector companies violating COVID-19 rules are now subject to these fines

Merge 104.8  |  21 June 2020

Oman’s Ministry of Manpower has announced ministerial decree 167/2020 issued by Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Abdullah Al-Bakri, Minister of Manpower, which imposes a series of fines for private sector companies found violating Supreme Committee directives to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Cover photo credit: Al Wisal

As Merge’s sister station Al Wisal reports, the fines set out by the Ministry include the following:

1. OMR 100: For failure to place social distancing signs at job-sites and workers’ accommodation.

2. OMR 100: For failure to comply with wearing masks in the workplace or on public transport.

3. OMR 100: For failure to provide hand sanitizers at workplaces or labour accommodations.

4. OMR 100: If hand sanitizers are found to contain less than 60 per cent alcohol content.

5. OMR 100: For failure to put up awareness posters in multiple languages at job-sites.

6. OMR 500: For failure to place security guards to monitor the movement of workers’ and visitors’ at labour accommodations.

7. OMR 100: For failure to disinfect tools and equipment.

8. OMR 100: For failure to train workers on preventive measures to help curb the spread of COVID-19.

9. OMR 100: For failure to implement an internal emergency plan to deal with coronavirus.

10. OMR 500: For failure to implement special mechanisms in the workplace to report employees suspected of having COVID-19.

Source: Al Wisal

(Also read: MoH: New timings for COVID-19 testing centres in Muscat, ID cards to be shown.)