EMERGENCY OFFICERS TO IMPLEMENT RCC & BUILDING SAFETY: DG RESCUE 1122
LAHORE: The Director General Punjab Emergency Service Department (PESD) Dr. Rizwan Naseer concluded the Training of Emergency Officers from different districts of Punjab at Emergency Services Academy to establish Rescue Cadet Corps (RCC) in colleges and universities and implementation of Buildings Safety as per the Punjab Community Safety Building Regulations-2022. He said Emergency Officers had been trained to bring social change through training of Rescue Scouts/ Volunteers so that we can have a First Aider in Every Home and safety promotion in their respective communities.
These views were shared by DG PESD while addressing the closing ceremony of the training of Emergency Officers held at the Managers Training Centre (MTC) of Emergency Services Academy here on Wednesday. The Registrar Academy Dr. Muhammad Farhan Khalid, Head of Safety Wing Mian Muhammad Ahsan, Head of Community Safety & Information Ms Deeba Shahnaz, Head of Law& Admin Ali Hassan, Head of Fire and Rescue Abrar Hassan, Incharge Physical Training Engr Hafiz Taimoor Khalid Instructors and course participants attended the ceremony.
Addressing the course participants, Dr. Rizwan Naseer congratulated training participants of training on the successful completion of their course. He said that the Emergency Officers shall work as safety ambassadors to promote safety in their respective Districts. Their core responsibility includes responding to major operations, like NCC Rescue Cadet Corps training of students of colleges & universities and training Emergency Response Teams (RCC) in high-rise buildings as per Punjab Community Safety Building Regulations 2022.
Dr Rizwan directed Emergency Officers to train teams of trainers in their respective districts on RCC modules and meanwhile prepare districts plans for implementation of the RCC in colleges and universities with the ultimate goal to have a first aider in every home and bring social change to have socially responsible citizens in their respective districts. After training of fire rescuers as trainers on RCC, the students in colleges and universities would be trained in 10 days on RCC training with daily drills to make them disciplined uniformed corps. DG PESD further said that volunteers from communities would be trained on Basic life support, bleeding control and rescue techniques under the Pakistan Life Savers Program to have the First Aider in Every Home.
Earlier, the DG was briefed that a total of 16 Emergency Officers in this batch have been trained as master trainers on the RCC course which include civic responsibilities, the importance of emergency call, basic life support & first aid, firefighting and fire safety, rescue techniques, water purification methods, personal hygiene, risk assessment, diseases prevention, waste management, road safety, community watch, kitchen gardening and plantation.
At the end, Emergency Officer Hamza Ali presented the collective impression of this course on behalf of the course participants. He thanked the DG PESD Punjab, Instructors of ESA and Headquarters for proving them an opportunity for this course. He marked that this course would be fruitful for them to impart the training at the community level. He also expressed that we shall implement this training to make our youth socially responsible, trained on first aid and promote safety in their respective communities.
