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‘Safety awareness is growing in Saudi Arabia’Ali A Mokhtar, President Safety Engineering Chapter, Saudi Council of Engineers and President, SFPE (Society of Fire Protection Engineers), Saudi Arabia, in a conversation with Oscar Wendel, Campaign Manager, Safety Design in Buildings, shares his thoughts on fire safety and its future as a professional field in Saudi Arabia…How did you get into fire safety?I graduated with a degree in industrial engineering from King Abdul-Aziz University in 1981 and worked with Petroline (East/West Pipeline Company) as a project engineer.

On returning to Saudi Arabia, I worked in Riyadh Refinery, where I started as a Safety Design Engineer with the Technical Service and Engineering Department.

I stayed almost 10 years in the refinery, and during this period I was promoted to Refinery Safety Superintendent and then to Safety Manager.

I stayed for four years, and from there I had many different assignments within the company, including Loss Prevention Department and RT Refinery and Distribution Operation, in addition to a one-year assignment in the United States with Chevron Refinery and RTFC, before I was assigned as Manager, Fire Protection Department with 1,500 staff and about 36 fire stations.

I learnt that engineers with firefighting and fire operations background and experience will make excellent fire safety engineers.

For example, we built the most advanced fire training ground in the world in Saudi Aramco almost 10 years ago in Juaymah Area; recently, a private investor built another fire training ground in Jubail Industrial City.