Dubai Industrial City to establish 'Maqayees' Dubai Centre for Industrial Standards

"Our vision is to create a globally recognised and comprehensive Quality, Health, Safety & Environment (QHSE) standard of industrial excellence in the emirate and the country. Successful tenants will be accorded the Dubai Quality Mark™ (DQM).," said Khalid Al Malik, Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Industrial City.

He pointed out that though the country has a manufacturing base, through the Dubai Industrial City, a conscious effort is being made to expand, extend and give depth to manufacturing and related industries.

"For such efforts to bear rich fruits, it is necessary to establish world-class operating standards in all aspects of QHSE so that our tenants have a global competitive edge," Al Malik said.

He also pointed out that with an international standard QHSE regulation, the region would benefit as Dubai Industrial City would set up a benchmark for the region.

Al Malik said that Dubai Industrial City has recognised the importance of QHSE wellbeing and the social impact associated with such issues. "The City has, therefore, embarked on a programme to establish Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental performance standards that all industrial units that operate their facilities within the City would be expected to achieve and maintain at all times.

With this core objective to establish and maintain an industrial environment that would facilitate manufacturing in a controlled manner, Dubai Industrial City has launched "Maqayees" Dubai Centre for Industrial Standards, a dedicated industrial standards control and enforcement body that has been vested with the mandate of Develop and maintain industrial standards and provide access to the best industrial practices and international standards to industries operating within Dubai Industrial City

Al Malik said one of Dubai Industrial City's strategic objectives is to research, develop, implement, monitor, measure and continuously improve the QHSE expectations to match the global standards of industrial QHSE excellence.

"Dubai Quality Mark™ (DQM) will eventually be the industrial QHSE excellence model that the organisations would be expected to live with. To meet this objective all prospective tenants that wish to develop a facility will be screened in terms of their top management commitment towards QHSE practices and compliance to local and federal laws issued from time to time," he said.

"As a policy, Dubai Industrial City will not issue a no-objection certificate to its tenants unless all requirements of QHSE, Master Planning including a detailed Environmental Impact Assessment is submitted to the satisfaction of Dubai Industrial City and other authorities in the Emirate of Dubai," Al Malik pointed out.

"Maqayees" Dubai Centre for Industrial Standards will embark on branding the Dubai Quality Mark™ as an integral standard encompassing and broadening the requirements of various international management system standards like ISO 9000, ISO 14000, ISO 18000 and HACCP complemented with a risk assessment and rating model.

"The long-term objective would be to seek regional and international accreditation of DQM and create a value proposition to the products manufactured and distributed from the industrial units within Dubai Industrial City," said the CEO.