Al Tayer honours winners of 7th RTA Safety Award

Dubai / WAM

Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) honoured sectors, agencies, firms and individuals selected as winners of the 7th RTA Safety Award 2015.
The award, which is presented annually and recognises the best safety practices of all RTA processes, aims to honour the best consultant, contractor and workers who demonstrate compliance with the occupational safety standards across all the projects and construction sites within the RTA. Categories of the award also include the best sector/agency and the best health, safety & environment team in the RTA. Three more categories were introduced in the last edition: Best RTA Safety Initiative, Best Public Transport Driver, and the Best RTA Maintenance Team.
The award distribution ceremony, which was held at the Al Wasl Auditorium on the RTA premises, was attended by a host of CEOs of the RTA as well as representatives of government departments, contractors and consultants.
Al Tayer awarded agencies, sectors, firms and individuals winning various categories of RTA Safety Award 2015. CH2M was selected as the winner of the Best Safety Consultant Award. China State Construction Company won the best safety consultant award (large enterprises), and Al Shafar Contracting finished second. In the Medium Enterprises category, the winner was United Motors and Heavy Equipment Trading LLC, and the runner-up was the Dubai Driving Centre. In the category of the best worker of contracting firms, Patel Ranchwood from Belhasa Engineering was the winner, and the runner-up was Papu Powel from ServeU LLC while Maitha bin Adai, CEO, Traffic and Roads Agency, won the Best RTA Safety Leader award.
Among RTA agencies, the Rail Agency won the Best HSE Team award, and the Public Transport Agency came second. Among RTA Sectors, the Corporate Technology Support Services Sector won the Best HSE Team award. As for initiatives, the Prevention of Accidents initiative of the Public Transport Agency was the winner, followed in the second place by Removing Heavy Vehicle Faults System initiative of the Licensing Agency. The Fleet Maintenance Team at the Dubai Taxi Corporation won the Best Maintenance Team award category, and the team of the Traffic and Roads Agency came second.
In the Best Public Transport Driver category from a safety viewpoint, Dhia Allah Khan Kamel Khan, from National Taxi company, was honoured as the Best Taxi Driver, and Abdul Aziz Shakiri from Bus Department, Public Transport Agency, won the Best Bus Driver award. Ahmed Mosmogino, and Irfan Padualli from the Marine Transport Department, Public Transport Agency, won the Best Marine Transport Means Driver award, and Abdul Nazeer Moaidotti from the Rail Agency won the best Tram Award. Al Tayer also honoured the Chairperson and Members of RTA Safety Award Team.