Job enrichment

Egay Uy

THE personnel of the Roads and Traffic Administration will very soon undergo a two-day training on First Aid and Basic Life Support to be conducted by the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office.  This training is expected to capacitate the traffic aides of the RTA in responding to emergencies on the road and in the office at a time when the personnel of CDRRMO are still in transit.

Documents from the CDRRMO reveal that 80 percent of trauma cases recorded in the past years were due to vehicular accidents, and this is expected to rise with the observed increase in the number of motor vehicles on the road.

RTA personnel on the road are almost always the first ones to respond to emergency situations such that as first responders, training them on first aid and basic life support will prevent further injuries, or God-forbid death, to vehicular accident victims.

The trainees from the RTA will soon be seen with first aid kits on their belts as a standard tool.

To reciprocate, Em-em Beja of the RTA Education Section is also designing a module that will be used to train CDRRMO personnel to perform basic traffic direction and control.  This training is expected to enable responders from CDRRMO to direct the flow of traffic in areas were vehicular accidents happen and they get to respond ahead of the others.

Later, the program will include personnel of the Civil Security Unit of the city government.

With the all-out cooperation of retired Col. Mario Verner Monsanto and Allan Porcadilla of the CDRRMO, Engr. Nonito Oclarit of the RTA, and the support and directions set by Mayor Oscar Moreno, the capacitated and empowered RTA and CDRRMO employees will be able to serve the community better, if not the best way possible.

(Egay Uy is a lawyer, a city hall consultant, and chairman of Task Force Hapsay Dalan.)