CMC calls for licences for trampoline, inflatables

The Central Municipal Council (CMC) at its biweekly regular session held yesterday recommended that places which provide trampoline games should be listed among those required to obtain prior licence from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI). The council is seeking to enhance the safety and security of children while playing on trampoline and inflatables even in cases where theses are installed at homes.The council urged the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to form a committee with representation from all entities concerned to study the safety and security requirements for such inflatable home games.Besides, the ministry should enhance its awareness efforts across various media to educate people on the risks involved in such games and the need to ensure that they are compliant with the necessary standards.The CMC asked the Directorate General for Specifications and Measurements to work on accrediting international standards concerning inflatable and trampoline games and accordingly co-ordinate with the MoCI.The council also recommended that the Ministry of Municipality study the possibility of fencing off waste landfills at various locations across the country and take remedial action against light pieces of waste getting caught up in wind.The walls or fences of these waste dumps should be decorated with fire resistant boards as a way of maintaining a beautiful ambience, it recommended.The council asked the ministry to study the possibility of moving the landfills and waste dumps currently located at Madinat Al Shammal to the nearest approved location. The CMC urged the ministry to study the possibility of allocating a barns complex for citizens living on the outskirts of the country and who own livestock without a valid registration to benefit from the services offered to promote the sector.The council also suggested that the ministry should consider the possibility of transliterating the Arabic place names when written in English instead of translating their meaning.