Officials from Ashghal and joint venture contractors receive a certification for achieving 30mn man hours without LTI for the Dukhan Highway Central project.
The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has announced that it has achieved 30mn man-hours without lost time incident (LTI) for the Dukhan Highway Central expressway.
Ashghal said the feat was achieved with the joint venture of Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) and Teyseer Contracting Company. This milestone builds on the previous achievement of 25mn man-hours without LTI celebrated by Ashghal and the contractor in July 2014.
“This significantly demonstrates the ongoing commitment to the welfare and safety of our employees and workers in the workplace through the adoption of rigorous strategies and processes,” Ashghal said in a statement.
Ashghal Infrastructure Affairs director Jalal Yousef al-Salhi awarded the certificate of appreciation to project director Bassam Salem. He also congratulated the project team for its latest achievement.
Bassam expressed his thanks for the recognition and stressed his company’s keenness in fully-adhering to safety procedures in completing the project without accidents.
To comply with Ashghal’s health and safety requirements in work zones, CCC and Teyseer raised the safety bar by introducing a robust programme of safety and traffic management.
The programme included the provision and use of the first crash cushion, European approved and tested temporary barriers both metal and concrete, including accredited installation, specialist road side working safety training accredited to UK and European standard and certified accordingly.
These initiatives included intensive health and safety discussions and awareness sessions, weekly management inspections, access control for sub-contractors, emergency support vehicles, site notice boards, and other related procedures.
Ashghal’s expressways programme has a set of health and safety procedures and policies across all projects to ensure commitment and compliance from all contractors to achieve zero per-cent incidents, injuries, environmental harm, and no security breaches on the expressway projects.
The Dukhan Highway Central project is an integral part of Ashghal’s expressway programme that will create “one of the world’s most impressive” urban road networks.
The project is managed by KBR as programme management consultant and WS Atkins as the supervision consultant. Substantial section of the Dukhan Highway Central project has already been opened to traffic.
The Dukhan Highway Central project includes the construction of a new 15km highway starting from west of the existing Al Wajbah Interchange and ending east of the town of Al Sheehaniya.
The project also comprises a dual carriageway with four lanes in each direction, service roads, and multi-level interchanges to enhance traffic flow between Dukhan and the centre of Doha. The new road will also separate traffic on the expressway from traffic on local roads.
