AAI holds seminar with Disaster Management Centre for technical staff

As part of its ongoing endeavours to share and enhance technical knowledge, Asian Alliance Insurance PLC (AAI) recently organized a seminar in collaboration with the Disaster Management Centre under theme "Disaster, Risk & Insurance" for its Non Life insurance sales and technical staff.

The aim of the seminar was to share the knowledge and expertise on identifying the areas of risk, seasonal trends and the changing weather profile of occurring natural disasters, what precautions can be taken as insurers, and matters relating to the impact of the changing weather patterns. The AAI sales team will spread this knowledge among the public island-wide in a bid to raise awareness on the issue.

The seminar was held recently, at the Disaster Management Centre Auditorium. Asian Alliance Insurance PLC and the Disaster Management Centre joined hands in this mutually beneficial example of a successful public private partnership (PPP).

The salient objective of this unique tie-up was to raise awareness through the Asian Alliance sales force on the need to address the areas of disaster management, how to minimize the exposure to such risks, and to protect their property and life by managing these risks which constitute an integral part of any insurance company.

Furthermore, the seminar sought to train all AAI Non Life field staff across Sri Lanka on the policies, programmes, administrative actions and operations undertaken to address a natural or man-made disaster by the Disaster Management Centre.

One of the most significant outcomes of the seminar is that through such focused training initiatives, productivity and profitability will be increased by driving safety in the workplace and at home, resulting in significant economic benefits to the nation as a whole.

This seminar also fulfills the need of working closely with the Disaster Management Center (DMC) in propagating their efforts to educate the community at large on the precautions one should take in managing and mitigating the consequences of the frequently occurring natural perils.

Ramal Jasinghe, Director/CEO of Asian Alliance Insurance, Major General Gamini Hettiarachchi, Director General of the Disaster Management Centre, Prof. Samantha Hettiarachchi from the Civil Engineering Unit of Moratuwa University and officials from the Disaster Management Centre were among the speakers who enlightened the participants.

In a bid to extend the impact of this tie-up, the company will distribute sponsored booklets and leaflets as a communication tool to spread the message of the importance of disaster management to the public.