Twelfth: Launching Awareness Initiatives 30. For the second year in a row, the NIHR launched the initiative to report noncompliance relating to workers, whose nature of work requires being under the sun and in open places, in the period between twelve noon and four in the afternoon during the months of July and August. It comes in implementation of the decision of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development No. (3) of 2013 regarding the two-month noon outdoor work ban. 31. Whereas advocating the prevention of occupational hazards and enhancing the health conditions of workers is an integral part of the role entrusted to the NIHR, within the framework of its work in the field of promotion and protection of fundamental rights and freedoms, stipulated in its establishing law, specifically in Article No. (12) thereof, and among those rights being the right to decent work in a safe environment from all risks, and in line with the procedures and circulars issued to limit the spread of the coronavirus, the NIHR called on employers in the private sector to provide protective face masks, and oblige all workers to use them in work sites in order to limit the spread of infection among workers. The NIHR also stressed the importance of the employers, or their representative’s taking the temperature of all workers when they enter and leave work sites, and when they leave the residences designated for them; if fever is detected for any of the workers, then the employer or his representative must immediately isolate the worker and take the relevant procedures. 32. The NIHR also called on employers to reduce close contact and maintain physical distancing at work sites and lower the number of workers, especially in rest rooms, waiting rooms, workers’ changing rooms, and vehicles for workers transport within the facility, to and from work sites. In addition, it called on employers to take all the precautions and requirements to be observed in workers’ housing, because of its great importance and direct impact on the health and safety of its occupants, especially with regard to reducing the number of workers in the same room in workers’ housing, and increasing the space allocated for each worker to the maximum extent possible, so that physical distancing is achieved. The social distancing is achieved when there is two meters at least between one worker and another, bearing in mind that according to the requirements and specifications of workplaces, the space allocated to each worker must not be less than four square meters of the free space in the rooms designated for workers’ housing. 33. The NIHR believes in the importance of concerted efforts to ensure that persons with disabilities enjoy all their rights on an equal footing with others and without discrimination between them. It launched the #Let’s help access campaign in February 2020, in which it called on the public, and persons with NIHR Bahrain- Eighth Annual Report 2020 96