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Amin Al-Maaytah - Aqaba Governor Khaled Al-Hajjaj received today, Sunday, a financial donation of 800,000 dinars from the Jordan Phosphate Company, to establish a specialized civil defense center in the industrial zone south of the city of Aqaba.
Al-Hajjaj, while receiving the donation from the director of the industrial complex of the company, Engineer Abdulaziz Al-Manaseer, and in the presence of the head of the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority, Eng. Nayef Bakheet, the Aqaba Police Director Colonel Saed Al-Qatawneh, the Aqaba Civil Defense Director, Lt. Col. Hammoud Al-Rawajfa, and the Commander of the Aqaba Gendarmerie Colonel Ayman Al-Nuaimat, stressed the importance of the center. In maintaining the security system for industrial companies in the south of the city of Aqaba through the presence of an advanced civil defense center that supervises the implementation of public safety procedures within facilities and companies, to reduce risks that may occur during work and to confront any emergency that occurs in factories operating in the region.
And he indicated that the center, which will be built on a land area of 3,900 square meters, at an estimated cost of 5 million dinars, will be specialized in accidents that occur in the southern industrial zone, and one of its duties is to supervise emergency plans in industrial facilities, and it will include a specialized and trained staff at the highest levels to deal with hazardous materials.
He valued the donation of industrial companies operating in the region, noting that the first donor was the Jordan Phosphate Company, and there are 10 companies that will make their donations soon so that the establishment of the center will be initiated, which will strengthen the security system in those companies.
In turn, Bakhit affirmed the authority's readiness to cooperate in the establishment of the center and participate in that through its subsidiaries, indicating that the center will be a link between the security authorities, industrial companies and the Aqaba authority, and will facilitate the procedures followed in the event of any accident - God forbid - within Southern Industrial Zone.
--(Petra)