CDAA intensifies inspections at Khareef tourism sites
CDAA has strengthened its field presence by deploying specialized teams to a number of tourist and natural sites, such as valleys, beaches, mountainous areas, and waterfalls. This is aimed at ensuring a rapid response to any emergency, securing sites, and providing rescue and ambulance services, ensuring everyone's safety, and enhancing the sense of security and reassurance among visitors and residents.
The Authority also continues its awareness-raising efforts through its advisory and awareness programs targeting visitors and the local community, to educate them about potential hazards in natural sites, emphasizing the importance of adhering to public safety guidelines and avoiding dangerous behaviors that could put lives at risk.
The Authority stresses the importance of visitors adhering to safety measures, avoiding approaching dangerous areas, such as valleys, during weather fluctuations, and refraining from risking crossings or camping in unsafe areas, to ensure their safety and that of their families. It also emphasizes the need to cooperate with field teams and follow instructions issued by the relevant authorities, ensuring everyone has a safe and stable time during the Dhofar Khareef season 2025.
These include civil protection teams responsible for inspections and ensuring that tourist facilities and establishments comply with safety and risk prevention requirements; ambulance teams specializing in providing emergency medical care at accident sites and ensuring the rapid transfer of injured persons to healthcare facilities; water rescue teams that secure beaches and marine sites and respond immediately to drowning incidents; and mountain rescue teams that conduct search and rescue operations in mountainous areas and difficult terrain to ensure rapid access to stranded and injured persons.
These teams operate according to established plans aimed at protecting lives and preserving property, in line with the Authority's aspirations to provide its services with high efficiency and professionalism.
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