Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) organised the 8th Annual Best Practices Conference on Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment on 25 September 2016 in Dubai
The conference was aimed at providing strategic platform to exchange skills and experiences and discuss international policies and processes required to face increasing challenges to find innovative proactive solutions in this field. The event brought together leaders and experts on safety and occupational health to discuss best practices in quality, health safety and environment at work, and provides a world-class valuable experience for the participants and stakeholders.
The conference was opened by DEWA managing director and CEO Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer. During his opening speech, Al Tayer noted DEWA’s commitment towards keeping up to date with the latest updates in quality, health and safety, and the environment. He pointed out that DEWA takes priority in ensuring the sustainability of environmental resources, to achieve the UAE Vision 2021, to harvest a sustainable environment with a focus on the quality of air, the conservation of water resources, further dependence on clean energy, and green development in Dubai.
“DEWA is at the forefront of international utilities in health and occupational safety, due to its adoption of integrated administrative systems policy through which DEWA actively applies quality, health, safety and environment management systems to generate, transmit and distribute electricity and water,” said Al Tayer.
“DEWA’s integrated administrative systems policy includes the adoption of best practices and the highest standards of quality, health and safety, environmental systems and accountability to all related regulations. This includes spreading awareness and preventing injuries, management of natural resources in a way that ensures its sustainability; management of waste disposal to reduce and recycle it; meeting the needs of quality, health, safety and environment to design, establish, and operate maintenance works and the planning performance of quality, health, safety and environment performance systems—facilitating its control, supervision and measurement,” he added.
Al Tayer stressed that DEWA is committed to providing a healthy and safe working environment for all its employees, partners, and customers, by adopting best practices through continuous improvement. DEWA also ensures the successful implementation of these standards to achieve the highest levels of safety and performance.
