AL ADAA

Improving Performance
and
Ensuring compliance with OSHAD SF
 About OSHAD

In February 2010, Abu Dhabi Occupational Safety

and Health Center (OSHAD) was established to
ensure the implementation of a comprehensive and
integrated management system for occupational
safety and health (OSHAD SF) and to oversee all
OSH issues at Emirate level, as well as to ensure
reduction of incidents, injuries and illnesses and
provision of safe and healthy workplaces.
 About OSHAD

OSHAD Strategic Priorities:

Promoting OSH Regulatory Tools.
Effective Implementation of OSH Requirements in
the Emirate.
Ensuring notification and investigation of
occupational incidents.
Building OSH capacities.
Promoting awareness and spreading the OSH
culture.
 Aims of OSHAD SF
Minimize hazards and risks, and control incidents
and injuries.
Provide safe and healthy workplaces.
Promote employees health and wellbeing.
Enhance the status and morale of employees who
are the key element in development.
Reduce treatment costs, minimize absence time, and
increase productivity.
Enhance the image and reputation of employers.
 About AL ADAA
To Facilitate the implementation of OSHAD SF and ensure
compliance with its requirements, OSHAD developed AL
ADAA.
AL ADAA is the Arabic word for performance.
AL ADAA is the first electronic application for the
management of occupational safety and health (OSH)
aspects in a consistent and uniform manner, and allows for
periodical and annual reporting on OSH performance.
AL ADAA covers all government departments, entities and
sectors in the Emirate, including: food, construction and
building, education, industry, health, energy, tourism and
culture, transport, waste and commercial sectors.
 AL ADAA Objectives

Establishment of a unified OSH database in

the Emirate.
Automatization of operations related to
management of Sectors and entities.
Provision of accurate data for Decision
Makers.
 AL ADAA Advantages

Facilitates supervision Provide decision makers

Instant follow up on all
and monitoring of system with accurate information
OSH operations
implementation

Follow up on Corrective Follow up on incident

Monitors Cost of OSH Actions Resulting from corrective actions to
implementation Audit Reports prevent recurrence

Improve the efficiency of Issuance of high quality Provide Accurate

staff and quality of reports and data for all Reports on entities
administrative work concerned authorities performance
 Technical Features
Manages a Storing data
A series of High large amount in a way
easy to use Flexibility of that allows
modules information for easy
using a single retrieval
Data transfer application Allows for
High-speed Generate
which allows immediate
data graphs easily
for automatic reporting
processing
inclusion

Generate Access by Bilingual

automatic Multiple (Arabic and
reminders Users English)
 Administrative Features

100% Accuracy and Quality of Data 80% Efficient Use of Resources 70%
Time Reduction

Reduce Human Establish integrated Facilitates the

Error communication completion of
Auto populates data between different OSHAD SF forms and
from different forms parties minimize the
Allows compilation implementing timeframe for review
of data and OSHAD SF, and Speed the process of
automatic ensure optimum periodic reports
calculation of rates use of human, issuance
technical and
financial resources
 Coverage
Abu Dhabi Occupational Safety and Health Center (OSHAD)

Government Authorities Delegated by OSHAD

10 to Implement system requirements in Sectors 75 Government
Departments

Transport Tourism &

Energy Education Industrial Construction
Sector Culture Sector Sector
Sector Sector

DOT TCA AD ADEC IDB DMA

ADWEA

Health Waste Food

Sector Sector Sector

HAAD CWM AD ADFCA DMA

Entities targeted
(High/Medium/Low Risk) 42,000 Entities under Sectors
 Reports that will be submitted
through AL ADAA
As part of monitoring OSHAD SF Implementation, the following reports will
be submitted through AL ADAA:
Timeframe Report
Type

Within 30 Days of Incident Date OSH Incident Investigation Reports

Annual Third Party Audit Reports

Annual
and Corrective Actions

Annual OSH Implementation Cost

Reports

OSH Performance Reports

Quarterly (including OSH KPIs)
 Coverage Levels
AL ADAA application covers the following parties across the Emirate
of Abu Dhabi:
Level One: OSHAD, the competent authority for occupational safety and
health in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi
Level Two: Sector Regulatory Authorities (SRAs) designated by OSHAD, the
government departments delegated to oversee the implementation of
OSHAD SF requirements by entities within their sectors.
Level Three: Abu Dhabi government departments concerned with the
implementation of OSHAD SF requirements.
Level Four: Entities (companies/establishments) working within the sectors
implementing OSHAD SF and that have been nominated and notified by
respective SRAs to implement OSHAD SF requirements, following OSHADs
approval.
AL ADAA
Webpage

Available in
Arabic and
English
 AL ADAA Users

AL ADAA includes all OSHAD SF forms and

can be accessed by users with login
password, this only includes Government
Departments, Sectors and Entities
implementing requirements of OSHAD SF.
Thank you

www.oshad.ae