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The Awards are designed to recognize annually the best safety practices in all operations of the RTA. Award categories include the Best Strategic Partner in realizing RTA’s safety strategy, Best Contractor, Best Consultant, the Best Workers committed to occupational safety standards in various projects and construction sites of the RTA, and the Best Sector/Agency as well as the Best Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Team in the RTA. The sixth edition of the Award saw an introduction of three new categories namely: Best RTA’s Safety Initiative, Safest Public Transport Driver, and the Safest Maintenance Team in the RTA.

The ceremony, which was held in RTA’s Al Wasl Auditorium, was attended by scores of top executives of the RTA as well as representatives of government entities, contractors and consultants.

 

Winners
 

Winners of  RTA Safety Awards 2014 decorated by Al Tayer were:

The Dubai Police General HQ and the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority shared the Best Strategic Partner of the RTA in the field of Safety category. AECOM Middle East was the winner of the Best Consultant in the field of Safety category. Wade Adams won the Best Contractor in the field of Mega Contractor category, and Tasjeel; an affiliate of Emirates National Petroleum Company (ENOC), finished second. In the Best Medium Contractor (with less than 500 staffs) category, Tamam Testing Center came first, and Shirawi Facilities Management finished second. In the Best Safety Worker category, the winner was Jagdish P. from United Motors & Heavy Equipment LLC, and Mohammed Salman, from China State Engineering Contracting Crop, was the runner-up.

Al Tayer decorated RTA’s winning sectors, agencies and work team where the Public Transport Agency won the Best HSE Team award, and the second place went to the Traffic and Roads Agency at the level of RTA agencies. The Corporate Technical Support Services Sector won the Best HSE Team at the level of RTA sectors. The Dubai Taxi Corporation won the Best Safety Initiative award. Bus Maintenance Team at Public Transport Agency won the Best Maintenance Team Award, and Streets Lighting Team at Traffic & Roads Agency was the runner-up. Iftikhar Ali Sardar, from Cars Taxi Company, won the Best Taxi Driver Award, Mohammed Rafi, from Rawiyya Depot at Public Transport Agency, won the Best Bus Driver award, and Hernan C. Jolom won the Best Marine Transit Modes. Al Tayer also felicitated the Head and Members of RTA Safety Award Team.

 

Safety & Security
 

“The compliance with the health and occupational safety standards in RTA projects is one of the core values which cannot be compromised under any conditions. All projects undertaken by the RTA are designed and constructed at the highest safety & security levels and are subjected to rigorous assessment criteria throughout construction phases to verify the compliance of construction operations with the international standards of occupational safety in projects,” said Al Tayer.

“The Safety Award is one of the pioneering initiatives of the RTA intended to decorate consultants, contractors and strategic partners who contribute to embedding and furthering good practices in various fields of health, occupational safety and environment,” he further added.

Abdul Mohsen Ibrahim Younes, CEO RTA’s of Strategy and Corporate Governance said: “The Award, which was launched in 2009 seeks to raise the awareness of the public and community organizations about the importance of safety, enhance the role of strategic partners in bolstering RTA’s activities and projects, and positioning the occupational safety concept & practices as a top priority of public and private entities.”

“The Award saw a sweeping changes in the number of categories from just four in the inaugural edition covering contractors & consultants engaged in RTA’s projects only, to cover in the second round all contractors and consultants working with RAT’s agencies and sectors. In its past edition, the Award saw an addition of new categories bringing the total number of categories to eight in this edition. The assessment of all categories is based on specific technical criteria approved in respect of each category and aligned with the highest international practices attended to by a Judges Panel comprising experts from various agencies of the RTA as well as external entities,” added Abdul Mohsen.