Sharjah’s Prevention and Safety Authority revealed that 69% of all schools in the emirate have implemented an intelligent monitoring system “Aman”, within an integrated coordination with school administrations in the emirate, seeking to ensure a safe educational environment for students and students, to ensure an accessible and safe educational path , And a scholastic climate that enables them to learn in full comfort, within the continuous supervision that guarantees them all their rights.
This came during the press conference for the "Safe Schools" initiative, which was held at the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Sheikh Saif bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Director of the Authority, stated that the Authority is doing its utmost to protect its children in the Emirate of Sharjah, through the initiatives that it launched during previous years; Including a safety and prevention workshop with Hammoud safety, which targets children from four years to ten years, and provides safety rules to them in the easiest way, and was presented to a number of private schools in the emirate, in addition to the child centers spread in various regions. The authority also launched the "Safe Schools" initiative, in cooperation with the Sharjah Special Education Authority. To train health and safety coordinators in private schools and students, the first phase ended with the training of about 4,000. He added: We are looking forward today to the start of the second stage; To include all private schools.
The conference was attended by Ali Al Hosani, Director of the Sharjah Authority for Special Education, Colonel Sami Al Naqbi, Director General of the General Department of Civil Defense, and Zainab Muhammad, representative of the Sharjah Education Council, along with a number of representatives of government departments.
He reviewed the results of the training during the first stage, the obstacles and challenges that educational institutions faced in health and safety. He also discussed ways to overcome these obstacles, during the dialogue session that took place in cooperation with the Council and the Authority.
The authority signed the "occupational health and safety" contract aimed at establishing a unified framework for all the emirate and setting a standard for all occupational health and safety requirements. It works to provide the necessary requirements for all commercial activities, and provides the emirate with a work platform through which it classifies activities classified as "high risk".
The authority signed a number of memoranda of understanding with safety companies regarding the formation of a consultation platform and an experimental platform for the requirements of the system that will be developed to meet our actual needs, and to serve the requirements of the Sharjah government, and to be an added value for businesses in the emirate.
Dr. Mohadeth Al Hashemi, Chair of the Sharjah Private Education Authority, indicated that cooperation with the Prevention and Safety Authority came based on the convergence of visions To reach a safe school environment for our student children; To achieve the Authority's vision for a distinguished education; Where it seeks with its strategic partners to secure the school environment in which the student spends a third of his day; As safety is a basic requirement for all segments of society.
The Sharjah Education Council stressed that the safety and security axis in schools and kindergartens is a priority in their five-year strategy that is based on several major axes, in which the human element of students, administrative, teaching and technical bodies occupies a high priority.