Abu Dhabi: The Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA) has launched the ‘Jahaziya’ platform for risk and crisis management. The Authority further introduced early warning systems for health risks concerning humans, animals, and plants within the framework of One Health.
The platform seeks to create a comprehensive setting that supports risk management, ensuring business continuity, crisis and emergency management, and global communications. This is done by integrating and connecting with both internal systems and external applications used by ADAFSA.
This integration also involves collaborating with local, regional, and international strategic partners. The platform further generates response plans for significant risks at both the Emirate and country levels.
‘Jahaziya’ further involves early detection and proactive foresight, addressing incidents related to food safety, animal epidemics, common diseases, agricultural pests, disease vectors, and chemical contaminants promptly upon their occurrence globally.
Additionally, it caters to risk management, business continuity, occupational health and safety standards, a rapid alert system, and an alternative national service management system.
Mr. Saeed Al Bahri Al Ameri, Director-General of ADAFSA, stressed that the ‘Jahaziya’ system promptly analyses worldwide data and international alerts regarding health risks. “It categorises these risks, pinpointing the most critical areas and formulating proactive strategies that guarantee adaptability and seamless handling of diverse challenges tied to ADAFSA’s operations,” the Director-General noted.
According to Mr. Al Ameri, the ‘Jahaziya’ system is one of the initiatives aimed at achieving the vision of the Abu Dhabi government and enhancing the efforts of the National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority to make the Emirate of Abu Dhabi a leading model in emergency, crisis, and disaster management.
Furthermore, the platform offers real-time interactive dashboards in the authority’s operations centre and automates the operations of incident, notification, emergency, and crisis management. It also consolidates all data related to emergency and crisis management into a unified database linked to the Authority’s internal systems and its strategic partners in crisis and emergency management.