The Mayor of Qatif inaugurates a health education testing and evaluation center for workers in food and public health facilities
Saudi Arabia / Hattan Saeed Zamzami, Mayor of Qatif Governorate, Engineer Saleh Al-Qarni, inaugurated yesterday, Sunday, the Health Education Testing and
Evaluation Center for workers in food and public health facilities, in Al-Majidiya neighborhood (warehouses area), which aims to develop self-control in food establishments and contribute to the development of self-control in food establishments and contribute to the development of self-monitoring. Raising and evaluating the level of awareness of workers in public health facilities.
The municipality launched the training services approved by the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing in health education and testing centers for workers in food and public health facilities, which is concerned with finalizing the updated procedures for issuing unified health certificates for workers (work practice license) in the targeted commercial and food facilities in the updated program approved by the Ministry .
Through this center, the municipality aims to train and educate workers to follow the best methods and practicesIt aims to promote public health an improve food safety to reduce food poisoning incidents among consumers and achieve the required standards in qualifying workers in the health and food facilities sectors on health prevention measures and raising awareness to reach self-monitoring methods as well as identifying potential and expected dangers in the work environment, in order to: Creating an integrated health work system in the sectors targeted by the program. She pointed out that this step comes within the framework of the direction of the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing, to approve linking the issuance of the health certificate for workers in food and public health facilities to passing the “health education” test and assessment. The duration of the theoretical and practical training program is scheduled to be 3days so that the worker can obtain
A health certificate (work practice license). The Health Education and Testing Center provides workers in food and public health facilities with training and health education services through educational bags in multiple languages, in addition to preparing highly-equipped training rooms with a capacity of (210) workers per day, to issue (59) A daily certificate by electronic test, as well as practical training and testing rooms for catering services, catering, laundry services, barber shops, women’s grooming, and other commercial activities related to the fields of food and public health.
