Excellency Brig. Expert Ali Hassan Al Mutawaa, assist. Director-General for Fire and Rescue Affairs, at Dubai Civil Defence Headquarters, inspected as part of the efficiency program, Shifts Leaders training course electronic tests process, which was held at Emirates Civil Defence Academy.
The held course focuses on incidents management theories and methodologies, as per highest professional levels, different tactics to control and command all types of fire incidents; it also reflects the continuation of basic and advanced specialized training and programs of fire, rescue sciences to developing, and enhance skills by using group activities, self-assessment exercises, and latest artificial intelligence, in order to implement best practices when participating in incident command and firefighting suppression in accordance to excellent performance indicators and standards.
Worth to mention is that the “Efficiency Program”, first of its kind, aims to prepare shifts leaders for incidents commanding, as it includes performance indicators to assess the field and technical works at personal and group levels, ensuring work continuation in a perfect and professional way and covering all updates and developments, in the different fields of fire and rescue operations, and giving each firefighter a card that will be approved t in four stages, and linked to employee annual evaluation.
He confirmed that improving and raising human cadre skills and efficiency comes on DCD’S top priorities, through holding scientific training courses, which help to increase the knowledge and keeping path with the huge quantum leaps seen in the field of different sciences, in order to achieve professional excellence that associates with academic quality, which ultimately would lead to accomplishing DCD’S vision and message of protecting lives and properties.
Al Mutawaa also indicated that the fire and rescue sector works seamlessly to achieve elements training sustainability, in line with the framework of the keenness to achieve set goals, as compared to their big role to play in fire suppression, and mitigation of its aftermath, by building the required capabilities necessary to face anticipated challenges.
The inspection was carried out in the presence of Major Ali Mohammed Al Falasi, Director of Fire Stations Department, 1st Lt. Matter Mohammed Bin Ghdaier, head of the training unit, and Lt. Khalid Rashid Al Shehee.
