Dubai Municipality runs campaigns to monitor safety, health standards

Dubai Municipality runs campaigns to monitor safety, health standards

Campaign aims to ensure the safety of food, drinking water and swimming pools

The authority conducted a number of inspection campaigns across educational facilities.

Published: Wed 23 Aug 2023, 4:49 PM

Dubai Municipality has intensified inspection and regulatory campaigns for over 500 educational and commercial institutions within Dubai to ensure compliance with safety and public health standards. The step was taken as part of the municipality’s annual initiative, ‘Our Schools are Healthy and Safe’, which was undertaken in preparation for the upcoming academic year of 2023-2024.

The campaign aims to ensure the safety of food, drinking water and swimming pools, in addition to other school supplies, such as uniforms and food containers. This is consistent with the municipality’s efforts to implement periodic campaigns aimed at maintaining safety standards in educational and commercial institutions across the emirate, thereby enhancing the quality of life for community members.

Food safety in educational institutions

The authority conducted a number of inspection campaigns across educational facilities, including schools, kindergartens, and nurseries to ensure food safety. In addition to ensuring compliance with approved public health and food safety standards, the municipality further ensured the presence of a health supervisor to monitor the food offered by other commercial establishments. Around 216 permits are