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Emergency service workers to be ranked
Society
Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/ At the
Cabinet’s regular meeting on December 12, a decision was made to give 1st-3rd
specialty ranks to emergency service workers based on their skills.
The specialty ranks will
have a specific valid terms, such as 3rd will be valid for two
years, 2nd – three years and 1st -four years. Their
salaries will be raised by 5-15 percent in according to their rankings.
Every year, a commission of
the National Emergency Management Agency will carry out tests on general knowledge,
physical preparedness level, psychological and special training and give
specialty rankings.
It demands high professional
skills and physical and psychological preparations from emergency staff when
they carry out search-and-rescue operations and work for eliminating aftermath
of disasters and accidents. For instance, carrying out a 90 minutes-long search-and-rescue
operations in the deep water and landing by a parachute are equal to eight-hour
workloads respectively. Moreover, rescuer of mining and firefighter are
considered the most hazardous or risky jobs according to the ILO survey. Thus
it was decided to grant specialty ranks so as to specialize emergency staff and
make them have much skilled.
