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June 2015 www.opaloman.org Issue 01

MESSAGE FROM THE CEO

2ND WASTE MANAGEMENT & RECYCLING 17TH – 18THMARCH 2015, GRAND HYATT MUSCAT, OMAN

“In our last AGM late last month I promised to communicate, communicate, communicate!! This Newsletter, the first edition to come out for this year will be a monthly feature with the specific purpose of highlighting the events of the month and what’s happening in OPAL. I would emphasize that “OPAL is its Members” and as such I would also request contributions to this Newsletter on important events, project milestones or happenings within your companies that you would like to pass on to a wider audience in the membership. OPAL has over 400 member companies and this newsletter is an attempt to bring OPAL closer to you, but also to bring you all closer to each other for mutual benefit.. We are in the meantime also working to produce a quarterly OPAL Oil & Gas Journal that will be topic driven, for which we will be communicating with you separately.

Don’t forget to give your contributions but also your comments on the content of the monthly OPAL newsletter. We will endeavor to continuously improve, but as the saying goes “you can’t clap with one hand”, so please let’s have your comments coming. ENJOY!!”

Musallam Al Mandhari

In an attempt to address some of the elements to help bridging the gap between the industry and the employees, OPAL in partnership with Oman Oil Co. developed “My Job, My Oath” programme to educate the junior Omani employees in the fields in work ethics and essentials of business environment and economics.The intention was to give the em-ployees an opportunity to under-stand their rights and obligations which would eventually help mo-tivate them develop themselves and perform better and at the same time support their organi-sation by being more productive.

The program is tailored specif-ically to provide Omani em-ployees working in skilled and semiskilled job levels in vari-ous oil and gas activities with appropriate tools to raise the general understanding of the national economy and civic responsibility in addition to Oman labour law.

The conference brought to light the current status and future expectations on waste man-agement scenario in Oman. It was thought-provoking with experts sharing the knowledge and best management practic-es. As O&G partner, OPAL

supported the organizer Ni-spana to make the event more beneficial to OPAL members. Some of the Major stakehold-ers of the conference are Min-istry of Environment, Muscat Municipality, PDO, Haya and Muscat Expo.

MY JOB MY OATHCONFERENCE CSR

AWARENESS WORKSHOP PARTNERSHIP WITH OMAN OIL COMPANY

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OPAL's training plan for its 400 + mem-bers gives priority to employers' needs and concentrates on com-petencies and work eth-ics. OPAL continues to provide its popular specialist HR training programmes for 2015. The first of this series is a two day course “In-troduction to Coaching “delivered by Maharat.Maharat is a specialist training provider that offers world class train-ing to the oil and gas sector in Oman and in the Middle East region.Maharat partners with Pearson, the world’s largest Training and Education Company. Maharat will be deliv-ering the training pro-gramme as a “Pearson Assured “ course.

OPAL has facilitated road safe-ty workshop on 9th April 2015 at O&G Exhibition Centre, PDO. It was well attended by over 60 participants from oil and gas contractors. The event was partnered with ‘Tell A Friend’ and PDO road safe-ty specialist Mr. Amri Khalaf delivered the training. PDO supported the workshop and co-sponsored by Shieda.

NEWS

HUMAN RESOURCE CERTIFICATION PROGRAMME (HRCP)

ROAD SAFETY CAMPAIGN IN PDO WORKSHOP

WORKSHOP

The programme is designed to craft HR practices which enable HR practitioners to add value to all the stakeholders: investors, customers, line managers and employees.The seven modules cover the key HR employees.Health Safety Environment Cer-

tification Programme (HSECP)Continued in 2014 it is devel-opment programme aimed at building capabilities of HSE Practitioners.Training For Employment Pro-gramme 6 Agreement were signed with Shell Development Oman to train 103 Candidates.

UPCOMING EVENTS TRAINING

1 Haifa Al Khaifi PDO

2 Majid Al Toki Trowers & Hamlins3 Dr Amer Al Rawas Tasneea Oil & Gas Technology4 Aflah Al Hadhrami Occidental of Oman Inc

5 Mundir AL Barwani Al Haditha Petroleum Services

6 Stephen R Thomas Renaissance Services SAOG

7 Mohsin Al Hadharmi Schlumberger Oman

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