Dubai Customs launches safe passage for customs inspector

Within the framework of Dubai Customs’s preventive and precautionary efforts and maintaining the safety and security of its inspection officers, the Administrative Affairs Department has taken a number of additional precautionary measures that are in line with the decisions of the Ministry of Health and Community Protection and health authorities in the state, where the department launched the safe customs inspector corridor to face the risks of the spread of Corona’s epidemic "And support the state's efforts to combat this virus and to maintain the health and safety of inspection officers and sterilize them in their workplaces."

The implementation of the safe customs inspector corridor comes in cooperation with the First Chance Company, with the aim of protecting the customs inspection staff and sterilizing them before starting their field work and ensuring their safety continuously, not to name them, and they are inspecting the goods that come to the customs centers in the emirate and working on the flow of the legitimate trade movement on Throughout the year.

The safe customs inspector pass has been implemented in the form of a mobile cab so that it is easily transported to any place in the customs center, as the cab contains a number of major devices, including a smart talking thermometer that instantly informs the person's temperature, and a sink that works by pumps by pressing the foot to get water Without the need to touch it by hand, in addition to the comprehensive sterilization of the inspector through safe spraying devices suitable for human use authorized internationally and in the United Arab Emirates. This is in addition to providing basic safety equipment such as gloves, protective masks and full body protective clothing to protect them during inspections.

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How the safe customs inspector pass device works
The new device works 24 hours a day as it contains all the necessary supplies to complete the sterilization process in all its stages, which takes one minute from hand washing - measuring the temperature - and complete sterilization of the body, as it contains a tank for sterilization with a capacity of 20 liters of sterile material, in addition to providing Technical employee 24 hours shift system to take care of the cabin cleanliness and sterilization with the same material used to sterilize counters and cameras, monitor sterile material consumption and fill the tank when needed

Also, there are sprays that handle the complete sterilization of the place and the body at the same time to make the area completely sterilized. As the objective of the safe customs inspector corridor is to provide support and protection of the customs inspector in the first place and to ensure safety and sterilization for him and not for the purpose of monitoring, and in the event that a high temperature is detected for any person and any symptoms appear, he informs his direct manager and calls the hotline to the relevant health authorities and follows Instructions according to the case, according to the circulars issued by the Human Resources Department and the Occupational Health and Safety Department in the department.

Eng. Khawla Ibrahim Al-Salis, Director of Administrative Affairs Department, stressed that Dubai Customs sets its sights to protect the health and safety of all inspection officers in all customs centers while performing their work duties, in order to preserve them and the integrity of the Emirates community, and to preserve the achievements and gains of the country, and in compliance with the directives of our rational leadership And keeping abreast of the state’s initiatives and efforts to combat the Corona virus, indicating that the safe customs inspector pass will be implemented at the Jebel Ali Customs Center as an initial stage and the pass will be generalized to all customs centers in successive stages later.

She said: The department has implemented a set of preventive and precautionary measures for inspectors in customs centers before performing their work, as the department sterilizes transit trucks at the Hatta border customs center before starting the customs inspection process, in order to ensure the safety of the inspection officers and workers at the center, where the sterilization process started since The first of April 2020, 24 hours a day, and earlier the department sterilized all its customs buildings and centers and all the contents and facilities as well as the sterilization process continues periodically. To prevent the proliferation of the emerging coronavirus (Covid 19).

The engineer Khawla added that workers in customs centers were provided with health and safety requirements (masks, gloves and protective clothing) so that the customs inspector feels safe during the performance of his work, and that these measures are taken by Dubai Customs a long time ago, despite the difficulties faced by customs inspectors in inspections, whether The sea, air and land outlets, but they represent the shield of protection and the first line of defense for the homeland, and Dubai Customs is keen to provide full technical support to the inspectors to contribute to developing and facilitating the legitimate commercial movement, and to maintain Dubai's position on the global trade map.