DEWA organises Business Continuity Management awareness programmes for employees

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA)'s Risk Management department, in collaboration with the UK's Business Continuity Institute (BCI), has organised a series of programmes to raise awareness about company connection management. The move is part of DEWA's on-going commitment to embracing to the greatest requirements of practice, to ensure business connection in the event of any emergency situation or disaster, and to make usage of all supporting tools to ensure that all requirements are fulfilled.

"We are pleased to be working along with business Continuity Institute, who have enabled us to provide our workers with training programs, and courses. This partnership supports the instructions of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to concentrate on staff advancement, as our staff members are necessary to the development of Dubai and sustain the on-going development of this city," stated HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA.

"As part of our focus on raising the level of awareness regarding business continuity management among employees, and our unceasing efforts to accomplish our vision to end up being a sustainable ingenious world-class energy bill, DEWA will remain to organise such programmes in support of Dubai's sustainable advancement process, ensuring company connection at the highest requirements of accountability and efficiency. Company Continuity has actually ended up being an essential element of emergency situation and disaster management, as it enables organisations like DEWA to remain to perform its operations, even throughout a catastrophe, up till such time as it can is once again operate at complete effectiveness.".

DEWA's current awareness programmes featured lectures and discussions on the value of company continuity management and how it is carried out into DEWA's business culture, and also clarified the relationship in between crisis management, and the management of Health & Safety continuity, in addition to highlighting the most efficient ways of adopting the principle to make sure all company operations are carried out successfully and effectively.
Employees who effectively passed the business continuity management test were awarded with credited certificates from business Continuity Institute, by Al Tayer.