Kuwait Labour Law Safety and injuries: Articles 80–97
Employee records, workplace safety and work injuries.
This section sets the employer's duties for a safe workplace and what happens when a worker is injured or falls ill because of work.
Employers must keep safety registers, tell workers about the risks of their job, provide protective equipment where the activity requires it, and protect workers from occupational diseases. Workers have their own duty to follow safety instructions.
When an accident happens, it must be reported, the injured worker must receive medical care, and their full wage continues during treatment. The law also sets compensation for work injuries and occupational diseases, and the cases where no compensation is due.
Practical step: keep an accident log, a list of the protective equipment each role needs, and the insurance details in one file that any manager can find quickly.
Articles 80–97
- Employee personnel file (Art. 80)A file for each employee.
- Safety registers (Art. 81)Each employer shall keep occupational safety registers in accordance with the forms and regulations stipulated in a…
- Posting working hours at workplace (Art. 82)The work-hours regulation must be posted.
- Employer safety duties (Art. 83)The employer is responsible for safety equipment.
- Informing workers of risks (Art. 84)Explain the risks.
- Activities needing safety equipment (Art. 85)The Minister shall, after seeking the opinion of competent authorities, issue a resolution specifying the types of…
- Protection from occupational diseases (Art. 86)The employer shall take the necessary precautions to protect the worker from health damage and occupational diseases…
- Worker safety duties (Art. 87)The worker shall take preventive measures and use the equipment in his possession with care.
- Work-injury insurance (Art. 88)Injury insurance.
- Social security replaces injury rules (Art. 89)When implementing the provisions of work injury insurance according to the Social Security Law, the said provisions…
- Reporting work accidents (Art. 90)Immediate reporting.
- Medical care for injured workers (Art. 91)Treatment is the employer's responsibility.
- Injury statistics to the ministry (Art. 92)Each employer shall periodically submit to the competent ministry statistics relevant to work injuries and…
- Full pay during injury treatment (Art. 93)Full wages during treatment, then half after 6 months.
- Compensation for injury or disease (Art. 94)The worker or the beneficiaries through him shall have the right to claim compensation for the work injury or…
- When no injury compensation is due (Art. 95)Lapse of compensation.
- Disease appearing after service (Art. 96)Occupational diseases.
- Medical report and arbitration (Art. 97)1.
This text follows PAM's January 2025 consolidated English edition; this local copy was not independently checked and is not legal advice.
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