Muscat: The Special Economic Zone Authority at Duqm (SEZAD) hosted today the Senior Emergency Management and Decision Making Workshop at the Headquarter in Duqm. The workshop is organised by the National Committee for Civil Defense in cooperation with SEZAD and the Civil Contingencies Secretariat (CCS) in the United Kingdom.
The 2-day workshop aims to refresh the understanding of the emergency management concept and to highlight the collective and individual roles of concerned authorities. A number of sessions were held over the 2 days, highlighting various aspects including review of the processes and challenges of obtaining, evaluating and making sense of information amidst uncertainty.
Additionally, the participants reviewed the processes for evaluating the possible courses of action and their consequences as a basis for the decision on the preferred course of action. During the workshop, different real case studies and potential scenarios were discussed in order to consider the associated media and public information operations.
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The participants were also introduced to the Ten Principles used to achieve successful emergency management, in order to be familiarised with best practices in this aspect, as well as to benefit from national and international experiences in dealing with various emergencies and major accidents.
