The Ministry of Labor, in cooperation with the Bahraini Health and Safety Association and the International Organization for Immigration, organized a workshop entitled “Banning of Work at noon and preventing heat stress”, in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Labor, and Mrs. Ayesh Ayham Sharif, Head of the International Migration Organization Mission, and with the participation of representatives of the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Federations and trade unions.
The workshop aimed to introduce preventive measures to maintain the health and safety of workers during the summer, by following the healthy and safe methods of prevention and reducing the complications of exposure to heat, and consolidating the safe work environment by adhering to national legislation to protect workers from natural risks.
The workshop included shedding light on the most important summer diseases that workers under high temperatures and humidity, and review the most prominent health and practical methods of how to prevent and avoid these diseases.
The workshop also included a dialogue session on Ministerial Resolution No. (3) of 2013, amended by Resolution No. (11) of 2025, regarding the prohibition of work at noon, which prohibits the employment of workers whose nature of their work requires being under the sun and in open places from 12 noon until 4 pm during the period from June 15 to September 15, and the importance of applying the decision to contribute to reducing the risks associated with heat stress.
This workshop comes within the framework of joint national efforts to spread a culture of occupational safety and health, enhance the safe work environment, protect workers and secure their safety from heat stress, sun strikes, various summer diseases, and reduce occupational accidents in various work sites, according to modern international specifications and standards for occupational safety and health.
