Health & Safety
Rotana’s commitment to colleagues
Health & Safety has remained steadfast
throughout the company’s history.
The company has worked diligently to
implement several programmes, initiatives,
policies, and guidelines to protect its most
valued resource - its colleagues, thus
resulting in 0 fatalities.
Every hotel appoints a designated person,
Environment, Health & Safety Manager or
Officer to oversee health and safety issues
and to establish an EHS committee which
comprises representatives of various
departments who meet on a monthly basis
to review progress, develop programmes,
investigate incidents, develop awareness
campaigns and set corrective actions and
control measures in the operation.
We have developed an Environment,
Health & Safety Management System,
EHSMS, that was fullly implemented in
Abu Dhabi hotels in 2012 and is currently
being rolled out across other hotels in
different regions.
A part of the EHSMS is the ongoing
Health & Safety risk assessment for
all Rotana Generic SOPs, Standards
of Performance, and activities in all
departments to identify related health
& safety hazards. For each activity’s
risk assessment, the necessary control
measures are set to reduce or eliminate
the hazards. Consequently, the
departmental SOP’s are amended to add
the Health & Safety control measures and
steps, so colleagues will be trained on the
same.
A corporate policy for colleague Health &
Safety is in place and a policy for incidents
reporting and investigation is under
development to ameliorate our system
for reporting incidents, improving its
investigation & preventing reoccurrence.
An Emergency Management Plan is
developed for the company to ensure that
all hotels are capable to deal with different
types of emergencies and colleagues are
trained on the response procedure.
Training is fundamental to our approach
in managing health and safety concerns.
Across our operations, various Health &
Safety training programmes of different
levels were provided to employees,
including the mandatory Health & Safety
and Emergency module introduced during
the Rotana orientation programmes.
Workplace safety, fire safety and first aid
were the main training topics covered
beside specific intermediate and advanced
levels of health and safety trainings.
We are constantly improving the way we
track safety data. For 2012, our Injury
Rate and Occupational Disease Rate were
not calculated. In 2013 we will be training
our colleagues on the new reporting
system for incidents and near misses to
accurately calculate these rates. This will
help to ensure consistent classification
of incidents across the hotels, which will
improve the data and the monitoring of
our performance in this important area.
