Has anyone completed the Squadron Environmental Aspects & Impacts Register (EAIR) as per HSEP Form 016 that would be willing to share to give me some ideas!!
I feel my list could go on and on and on…
it’s on my to do list
Nope.
And …nope.
Not going to either.
Unless someone can tell me either the volunteer or cadet benefit gained by doing so?
If there is none, then it’s a job for the perms.
They are there to administer after all.
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I have to be honest that was my first thought. It certainly doesn’t appear to be a quick task!
Can you add something like - “The impact hasn’t changed since before we had to do this form”
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Seconded!
Wow. Had a quick look. My thoughts are simple, we turn everything off when we leave and just use what we need. I am not going to influence how the Cadets get to the unit, that is for their parents.
But seriously, anywhere else an assessment like this would be done by a properly qualified / experienced staffer or contractor, begs the question why CFAV’s should be doing this.
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I completely agree. My allocated budget for Feb, March and April for pointless admin tasks has been used up. I have asked the organisation to reapply when I tell them in May.
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We’ve got a damp problem so often leave the radiators on… Bet they wouldn’t like that 
We leave our radiators on low from sept to may.
Damp, cold, time to heat up.
This form is another example.of the perms expecting 1 or 2 volunteers to perform the role with sufficient skill of 20 permanent staff on an RAF station.
H&S
Environment officer
EDI officer
grounds keeper
Maintenance liaison
MT Officer
Etc etc etc
Volunteers accept that there is some admin, related to the activities they want to put on for the kids.
All this extraneous nonsense is becoming LITERALLY in every sense of the word a full time job.
If they want that, they are going to have to pay me for it.
Simples.
I’m not doing anymore of this pish.
Gold stars be damnned. It isnt needed, iant worth it, doesn’t generate anything for the kids.
So what’s the point?
Honestly, if anyone can tell me what possible benefit this sort of crud directly brings to the cadet experience, I will eat my phone.
Ta
doesn’t gain anything for anyone as far as I can tell…
even those at HQAC can’t get excited about Squadron having “Gold stars” until the vast majority (75-80%) have them until such time it is simply a measure of how much resource a Unit has to throw at admin after concentrating on training…
I do wonder if HQAC forget we are the Air Training Corps - the clue is in the name and quite literally its our middle name…
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They haven’t forgotten that. They just forget that the A is for Air. They think it means Administration
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We don’t control our boiler…
We turn the radiators down otherwise we come into an inferno, but if we turned them off when we leave it would be baltic when we arrive.
Whatever we do doesn’t really affect the environmental impact of the whole system though as the boiler will be churning out for other areas.
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This IMO is for landlords to do, not tenants and then for the landlords to do any remedial works.
This sort of thing seems to be standard environment tosh across all businesses as they try to make themselves look concerned about their environmental credentials, to people who have too much time on their hands.
We leave heaters on low Dec to Mar in the main hall with the classroom doors open to even out the heat and the stores’ heater is on “frost” all year long to prevent dampness.
I just can’t understand who at HQAC thought this was a good idea to push all the way down to units!!
‘Value our Volunteers’ is clearly just a title on Teams that gives a false sense that HQAC care about CFAV within the organisation.
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I thought this was all in the environmental section of the new RA form?
Don’t tell your fire inspector that…
It is indeed.
I wouldn’t call it environment tosh exactly, but in our case these forms and procedures are put into place so that HQAC can claim they they comply with all H&S and Environment best practice There seems to be little regard to the fact that the majority of people expected to complete the forms and carry out their procedures are people whose primary role and motivation for being in the organisation is to provide training to cadets.
out of interest has HQAC shared that best practice? it is all very well asking us to fill in the form indicating we comply…but if we don’t know what we’re supposed to be complying with is this all just another waste of tim…oh wait sorry, realised I didn’t need to finish that sentence