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Dubai Municipality is looking to hire lifeguards in Dubai. Both male and female applicants are invited to apply for the position, which is for open beaches in the city.
The salary on offer is Dh4,679. Interested candidates should send a copy of their CV with qualification, experience, certificates and a copy of the passport to job@dm.gov.ae
The ideal candidates should have 7 years’ experience and be within the age group of 25 to 35 years.
For the job, the candidates are required to monitor swimmers in assigned beaches, should be able to carry out rescue work in the case of drowning, perform immediate artificial respiration on drowned people and should immediately report such cases to competent authorities as per procedures and specified mechanism.
This website reported late last year that there would be more lifeguards to patrol Dubai beaches.
For example, the Parks and Recreation Section at the Public Parks and Horticulture Department at Dubai Municipality employed 35 lifeguards in October of 2014, and had hired 18 new lifeguards then.
Lifeguards are employed on the three recreational beaches in Dubai including Jumeirah Beach Park, Umm Suqeim Beach and Al Mamzar Beach.
In line with the efforts to increase the presence of lifeguards on public beaches, lifeguards have been installed at several open beaches over the years, such as Jumeirah Open Beach.
Despite the presence of lifeguards, the authorities also put several warning signs and restricted areas for swimmers because even after repeated warnings, some people do not take the safety measures in considerations, say authorities.
But with increased vigilance, there were fewer cases of drowning at sea in Dubai in 2014. The number of maritime incidents attended to by Dubai Police’s Maritime Rescue team went down from 57 in 2013 to 39 in 2014, including drowning cases and sea search and rescue.
Of the 39 incidents in 2014, 28 were drowning incidents, involving 40 people, three of whom unfortunately died.
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