المملكة: Prohibiting the misuse of drilling licenses for infrastructure projects in Riyadh

The Board of Directors of the Center approved ViolationsAnd the imposition of penalties imposed on those who violate the legal and technical conditions and requirements for practicing the activity, in addition to intensifying field monitoring work to enhance compliance.

This includes exercising monitoring by multiple means, whether through automated or manual monitoring or a combination of both, and based on reports or on the initiative of the center itself, while adhering to the mechanisms approved to control and document violations.

Control Violation

The decision clarified that arresting a violation does not require the presence of the violator at its location, and it is not necessary to arrest all violators at the same time, provided that the arrest data includes the basic information of the violator, the type of violation, the classification of its seriousness, and the penalty prescribed for it, in addition to the date, time and location of monitoring the violation.

Special reports are prepared in the event that the violator cooperates, resists, or obstructs the control work, enabling the center to complete the procedures in coordination with the competent authorities, in addition to Providing monitoring through live filming using designated cameras, in a manner that does not conflict with the relevant regulations and instructions.

The table specifies violations Traffic safety, which includes the absence of lighting reflectors on the barriers of turns and traffic diversions at the work site, and a fine of up to 3,000 riyals per day.

If reflective guidance and warning signs are not placed, the fine reaches 4,000 riyals. As for failure to maintain these signs, the fine reaches 3,000 riyals, as well as failure to provide a buffer safety area at the beginning of the site.

A fine of 5,000 riyals is imposed in the event of failure to provide Alternative routes using reflective signs, or tampering with road signs regulating traffic, or not putting up warning lights, as well as starting work without preparing a traffic management plan or not following it.

Financial fines

A fine of 15,000 riyals applies to work site security violations, which include not securing the entire boundaries of the work site with temporary barriers. However, if temporary protective roads are not used to cover the entire accidental excavation sites, the fine reaches 10,000 riyals, and failure to maintain or install road panels. Temporary barriers or their sharp edges protrude above the level of the road surface, and a fine of up to 5,000 riyals.

A fine of 3,000 riyals is applied when using temporary plastic barriers empty of water or sand at the work site, or using temporary barriers of non-compliant sizes or shapes, and the fine reaches 5,000 riyals when placing temporary barriers in an irregular or non-contiguous manner within the work area, or using types of temporary barriers that do not comply with the requirements of street speed, depth or width of excavations, or duration of the project, or non-compliance. The dimensions of the side buffer zone of the work site, and violators will be punished with a fine of 10,000 riyals if they do not shield or reinforce the sides of the excavation.

With regard to violations of the identity and urban appearance of work sites, a fine of up to 3,000 riyals has been set for a number of violations, including failure to use insulating overhead panels in accordance with the requirements of concrete barriers according to the type or location of the project, and the absence of a project information board at the work site, in addition to the lack of licensing data on the site. The project plate or its incorrectness, as well as the use of damaged, unmarked, or inconsistent temporary barriers that disrupt the general appearance of the site.

The regulation imposed a fine of up to 5 thousand riyals for other violations within this framework, which included failure to maintain the upper insulating panels for the type of work “hoarding” above the concrete barriers, and failure to adhere to the specifications of the identification logos on all temporary barriers, in addition to not using the approved model for the project information panel or the panel not containing all the data required according to the model. Approved.

With regard to warning and visual warning means, the fine was estimated at 2,500 riyals in the event of not installing or straightening the “LED” warning sign throughout the entire work area, or using “LED” warning lighting in a color other than the approved white color.

Fining violators

As for violations of business execution practices, the table stipulated that a fine of up to 5,000 riyals be imposed upon committing a number of violations, including excessive lighting. To the soil or trees that can be seen with the naked eye outside the boundaries of the work site, pumping water into flood traps or unauthorized sites during the implementation of infrastructure projects, the presence of transformers or exposed wires inside or outside the work area, in addition to removing or destroying grass or trees or vandalizing the gardens surrounding the work site, as well as damaging irrigation networks by any means during the implementation of the work, in addition to not providing a pedestrian crossing every 200 meters or less along the work site.

A fine of up to 3,000 riyals was set for other violations within the implementation work, including not withdrawing water resulting from excavation according to the soil examination report, and not maintaining general cleanliness during implementation, while a fine amounting to 2,500 riyals was imposed in the event of damaged signs or warnings on the fence or fence surrounding the work site.

With regard to work waste, the regulations stressed the imposition of a fine of up to 10 thousand riyals when placing implementation waste in the vicinity of the work site during Implementing infrastructure projects.

Within the framework of worker safety, the penalties stipulate the imposition of a fine of up to 3,000 riyals in the event that workers do not adhere to personal safety or reflective means or do not adhere to the uniform inside the work site, while the fine reaches 5,000 riyals in the event of not maintaining temporary barriers at the work site. A fine of one thousand riyals was also set when fire extinguishers were not available in the equipment and machinery used on the site.

As for violations of licenses, qualification and accreditation, the fine was estimated at 5 thousand riyals in the event of working on the site without a license, or carrying out work in a manner contrary to what was stipulated in the issued license. The fine rises to 10,000 riyals when there is no permanent work outlet to complete the existing work or it is closed after the implementation by the outlet specified in the license is not possible.

The penalties also included imposing a fine of up to 20,000 riyals when using a drilling license in a manner that violates the content of the license, while the fine reaches 30,000 riyals if an emergency drilling license is used for non-emergency work. The regulations also stipulate a fine of 15,000 riyals when continuing to work on the site. Without renewing the license to operate infrastructure projects.

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