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    Middle East & GCC QHSE Software: UAE and Saudi Arabia

    GCC QHSE work combines national oil company standards (ADNOC, Saudi Aramco), Abu Dhabi's ADOSH-SF (formerly OSHAD-SF), Dubai Municipality regulations and Saudi labour and data-protection law, layered over ISO 45001. The UAE and Saudi Arabia sections below link each regulator named to its own page. Look for Arabic/English workflows, contractor pre-qualification at scale, and process safety depth for oil, gas and petrochemicals.

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    Key Middle East Regulations

    ADNOC HSE Code of Practice

    Abu Dhabi National Oil Company's mandatory HSE framework for ADNOC group and contractors — covers permit-to-work, PSM, contractor management, incident classification and reporting.

    Saudi HCIS (High Commission for Industrial Security)

    Mandatory security and HSE framework for industrial facilities in Saudi Arabia, with prescriptive requirements on access control, hot work, hazardous materials and emergency response.

    ADOSH-SF (Abu Dhabi, formerly OSHAD-SF)

    The Abu Dhabi Occupational Safety and Health System Framework, published by the Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre. The acronym changed from OSHAD-SF at version 4.0; see the UAE section for the source.

    Dubai Municipality HSE Regulations

    Construction, hospitality, food safety and environmental rules issued and enforced by Dubai Municipality — relevant to virtually every Dubai-based operator.

    Saudi Aramco SAEPs / GIs

    Saudi Aramco Engineering Procedures and General Instructions — de facto standards for any operator in the Aramco supply chain, especially for permit-to-work, isolation, and incident reporting.

    ISO 45001 & Seveso-equivalent PSM

    ISO 45001 is the regional baseline OHS management standard; major-hazard sites are governed by national Seveso-equivalent regimes (e.g., Kuwait's KEPA framework, Qatari regulations).

    What to Look for in Middle East EHS Software

    Arabic / English bilingual UI

    Frontline workforces are heavily multilingual (Arabic, English, Hindi, Urdu, Tagalog). Look for native Arabic RTL UI, multilingual training content, and SMS / WhatsApp notifications in worker languages.

    Contractor pre-qualification at scale

    GCC megaprojects routinely involve thousands of contractors. The platform should support tiered pre-qualification, document expiry tracking, contractor scoring and integrations to Achilles, ISNetworld or local equivalents.

    PTW (permit-to-work) depth for energy & petchem

    ADNOC and Aramco PTW workflows are prescriptive — gas testing, isolation registers, simultaneous operations (SIMOPS), and high-risk activity controls. Generic PTW modules often need heavy configuration.

    ADNOC / Aramco-aligned reporting

    Incident classification, near-miss reporting and KPI dashboards should map to operator HSE frameworks, not generic ISO 45001 categories alone.

    Process safety for oil, gas, refining, petrochemicals

    PHA, MOC, mechanical integrity and asset integrity capability is non-negotiable for major-hazard sites. Ask each vendor to demonstrate these workflows with one of your own changes or studies.

    Data residency & sovereignty

    Increasing preference for UAE / Saudi / Qatar data residency, particularly for government, defence and national oil company contracts. Verify cloud regions and sovereignty options.

    Country sources checked 25 September 2026. Product statements below come from the researched profiles and keep their own source dates.

    United Arab Emirates

    Abu Dhabi: ADOSH-SF, formerly OSHAD-SF. The Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre (ADPHC) publishes the emirate's Occupational Safety and Health System Framework. Its version 4.0 update notes record that the acronym changed from OSHAD-SF to ADOSH-SF and the centre's name from OSHAD to ADPHC. A vendor template or procedure that still says OSHAD-SF may follow an earlier version: ask which version it follows and who keeps it current.

    Dubai, the free zones and federal labour rules. These set further requirements that this page has not checked against primary sources. List the authorities named in each contract or site permit, then ask the vendor to produce the record each one expects from a sample incident, inspection or permit.

    Platform evidence. Our research did not establish UAE-specific templates for the products in the list on this page. Ask each vendor for its Arabic interface and templates, and test Arabic and other crew-language content on the intended device, including any content prepared for offline use.

    Saudi Arabia

    Labor Law safety duties. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD) summarises chapter eight of the Saudi Labor Law on its health and safety page. Among the employer duties it lists is posting work and safety instructions in a prominent place in Arabic and, when necessary, in another language the workers understand. Check that the platform can hold and publish the same instruction in each language your crews use.

    Work injuries and occupational disease. MHRSD's work injuries article sets out that the employer bears the treatment costs of a work injury or occupational disease, and that an occupational disease counts as a work injury from the date it was first medically observed. A case record should keep that date separate from the report date.

    Personal data (PDPL). The Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) publishes the Personal Data Protection Law, its implementing regulation and a separate regulation on personal data transfer outside the Kingdom. Injury, health and training records identify people, so ask each vendor to state the hosting region, sub-processors and transfer basis in the contract.

    Platform evidence. Our research did not establish Saudi-specific templates, an Arabic interface or in-Kingdom hosting for the products in the list on this page; ask for each in the demo and the contract, and test Arabic content on the crew's device.

    Software to evaluate for GCC operations

    The list applies one published rule, the same for every product; it does not establish GCC availability, Arabic interfaces, regional templates or in-country hosting, which each vendor must confirm. No regional performance ranking is established.

    Tekmon pays for a sponsored placement (above); its place in this list follows the same rule as every entry. How lists are ordered

    Same rule for every product: tagged “EHS Management” or “Safety Management” or assigned primary category “EHS Management” or “Safety Management”, with a sourced incident management capability in its record, or one the vendor stated to us, labelled as vendor-stated. 57 qualify; the first 8 are shown, then the other 49.

    Also meet the rule, in the same order (49)

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    Frequently Asked Questions

    What does ADNOC HSE compliance require from QHSE software?
    ADNOC contractors and group entities are expected to operate to the ADNOC HSE Code of Practice, with auditable PTW, incident classification (per ADNOC severity matrix), contractor management and KPI reporting. Our research did not establish which platforms ADNOC contractors use; ask each vendor you shortlist to demonstrate these records against your contract requirements and to provide references you can verify.
    How do platforms support ADOSH-SF (formerly OSHAD-SF) in Abu Dhabi?
    Our research did not establish ADOSH-SF templates for the platforms listed on this page. Ask which framework version a template follows (the acronym changed at version 4.0) and have the vendor show the records you need, such as the risk register, training, audits and incident workflow, configured in the quoted package.
    Is Arabic UI critical for GCC EHS deployments?
    For frontline modules — incident reporting, observations, toolbox talks, PTW signoff — usually yes. Office workflows often run in English, but worker-facing screens, training and notifications should use the worker's language. In Saudi Arabia, the Labor Law summary on MHRSD's site asks employers to post safety instructions in Arabic and, when necessary, in another language the workers understand.
    How should we evaluate platforms against Saudi Aramco contractor requirements?
    Our research did not establish which platforms Aramco contractors use. Ask each shortlisted vendor to demonstrate permit-to-work, isolation and incident reporting against the SAEPs and GIs named in your contract, and to provide references you can verify.
    How does Saudi HCIS differ from generic ISO 45001?
    HCIS is more prescriptive — it dictates security and HSE controls for industrial facilities, with explicit rules on access, hot work, hazardous materials and emergency response. ISO 45001 is the management-system shell; HCIS sits on top with concrete controls.
    Can I deploy a single platform across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait?
    It can be. Check that the vendor maintains the country-specific content you need, supports bilingual workflows and states the hosting region and transfer terms for each country in the contract. Our research did not establish GCC regulatory libraries for the platforms listed on this page.