The Public Authority for Manpower (PAM) has issued an administrative round directing inspection groups to hold out a radical audit of all staff concerned in food-handling actions, in accordance with Article 32 of the laws governing work permits and the official accreditation system of the Gulf Occupational Classification Information (ISCO-8).
The authority said that the directive comes as a part of joint coordination with the Public Authority for Meals and Vitamin, to unify inspection procedures and enhancing oversight on this crucial sector.
The initiative seeks to make sure that all staff meet skilled and well being requirements — foremost amongst them the validity of their well being licenses, a elementary requirement for practising food-related professions.
In keeping with PAM, the inspection marketing campaign will cowl all food-handling jobs listed within the up to date Gulf Information (October 2025), encompassing greater than 350 professions.
These embrace culinary and meals preparation roles resembling cooks, bakers, and machine operators; retail and direct food-handling professions together with recent produce, fish, meat, and dairy distributors; agricultural and livestock-related meals manufacturing roles; varied ranges of meals processing work; in addition to high quality management, supervision, transportation, and distribution jobs.
Inspection groups will comply with detailed pointers hooked up to the round to make sure consistency in procedures and correct verification of staff’ eligibility and compliance with accepted employment situations.
PAM urged employers to confirm the validity of their staff’ well being licenses to keep away from authorized penalties within the occasion of violations.