Arab Times

ASSE holds beach clean-up drive

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American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) – Kuwait organized a beach cleanup drive on May 12, 2018 at Mahboula Beach. During the amazing signature event around 100 people including Petrofac employees, school children and ASSE Members.

The program started with a welcome speech from ASSE Kuwait Chapter where in Sunil Sdanand, Secretary, welcomed all the participan­ts. He thanked all for their presence and active participat­ion. Aamir Rasheed, Vice-President, ASSE Kuwait Chapter informed the participan­ts that “Our goal for Cleanup Day

A photo from the event. at Mahboula Beach is not only to pick up every piece of trash we can reach, but also to educate the public on the responsibi­lity of keeping the beaches clean and save our environmen­t”. Balvant, Deputy Head of Outreach Committee delivered a safety talk on the Do’s & Don’ts.

Petrofac Internatio­nal Ltd (PIL) sponsored this program. PIL is a leading Internatio­nal service provider to the oil and gas production and processing industry. Petrofac provided T-Shirts, caps, hand gloves, trash bags to all participan­ts.

The objective of this initiative was to build an awareness of the problems that are caused by garbage left on the beaches and implement activities to alter the population and visitor’s behaviour so that they do not throw waste on the beach.

The beach clean-up campaign is one of PIL Corporate Social Responsibi­lity (CSR) initiative­s in giving good attention to the community and the environmen­t.

The cleanup drive started at 7:30 am and stretched till 10.00 am. During the closing notes Muhammad Alamgir President of ASSE Kuwait Chapter and Project HSSE Manager of PIL, thanked all participan­ts. The event was supported by Kuwait Municipali­ty, Ahmadi Governorat­e.

Finally, the program concluded with the distributi­on of Snack boxes and the participat­ion certificat­es to all school children and other participan­ts for their active role in the event.

ASSE – Kuwait Chapter, has been organizing these events in Kuwait for several years; targeting a new beach every year.

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