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Dubai Municipality enforces building

control measures to boost precautionary

protocols against COVID-19

Dubai Municipality has enforced has intensified monitoring and inspection of
a series of building control construction sites to ensure all preventive and
measures in the emirate precautionary guidelines are implemented and
to reinforce precautionary instructions in circulars are followed. A total
of 50,000 inspection visits were conducted
protocols against COVID-19. in 12,331 under-construction buildings in the
last two months, apart from visits conducted in
The measures form part of broader efforts response to emergency reports in Dubai.
implemented under the leadership’s directives Mandatory precautionary measures in construction
to safeguard the health and safety of all sites include: wearing protective masks and
segments of society. The civic body has issued gloves, providing sterilization equipment in multiple
a set of circulars and guidelines for preventive locations at the site, measuring the temperature
steps and intensified cleaning and disinfection of workers before entering the site, maintaining
procedures in construction sites and workers’ physical distancing and avoiding gatherings,
accommodations. The Municipality stressed ensuring workers keep a safe distance between
the need to abide by the circulars to ensure the each other while travelling in and disembarking
highest security and safety for all construction from buses, conducting continuous sterilization
workers and members of the community. The of work sites and project extensions, avoiding
circulars also include guidelines on transport overcrowding in temporary and permanent
and movement controls to and from construction elevators, providing dedicated waste containers
sites and the procedures to be followed inside on site, providing protective clothing for workers
workers’ buses. They also outline the protocols in project warehouses, distributing timings for
related to the prohibition of workers’ movement workers’ breaks to ensure physical distancing,
outside the project site and the categories ensuring office workers at the site maintain
within the construction sector that are exempt physical distancing, and providing disposable
from movement restrictions. The Municipality plates and cups.

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