The main purpose of industrial safety – is prevention and / or minimization of consequences of accidents and incidents at hazardous production facilities of the refinery. Industrial safety is provided by the production control.

Production control – is a component part of the system of industrial safety management, implemented through a complex of measures, aimed at ensuring the safe operation of hazardous production facilities of the refinery, at the prevention of accidents and incidents at these facilities and ensuring the preparedness for localization of accidents and incidents and elimination of their consequences.

Tasks of production control over observance of industrial safety requirements are ensuring compliance with the requirements of industrial safety at hazardous production facilities of the refinery, as well as identifying the circumstances and causes of disorders, that affect to the security status of the work.

Middle Eastern Petroleum Corporation (MEPC)– is one of the oldest oil refineries in Qatar. The company's management pays particular attention to safety and working conditions of workers, prevention of technological risks, reduction of harmful environmental emissions. Work on safety and labour protection in "Middle Eastern Petroleum Corporation (MEPC) is being performed in accordance with the requirements of the Labor Code of Qatar, an Uniform Control System of Labour Protection of Middle Eastern Petroleum Corporation (MEPC) and the international standard OHSAS 18001: 2007 "Management System of labour protection and safety." In "Middle Eastern Petroleum Corporation (MEPC) the complex of preventive actions of technical and organizational nature, aimed at ensuring the safe and uninterrupted operation of the refinery facilities, as well as at ensuring the sanitary - everyday conditions for refinery workers is carried out.