DLA Piper recommends urgent action to demonstrate the importance placed on health and safety by the Qatari authorities amid its dash to build a new nation.
It calls for contractors that breach standards to be blacklisted and for the introduction of stronger criminal sanctions, as well as joint liability for contractors (often major western firms) and their sub-contractors.
In addition to practical measures such as the introduction of electronic ID cards and health and safety education, it recommends a series of steps to establish how many workers die on construction sites.
DLA Piper "strongly recommends" the regular collection and reporting of statistics regarding work related injuries and deaths, to be published anonymously every six months.
In light of the apparently unusually high levels of heart attacks, it calls for an independent study into sudden cardiac arrests over the next three years and for there to be proper investigation into unexpected or sudden deaths.