IBN detailing the release of this
IBN 06-22: The Introduction of the RAFAC Fire Safety Policy to the RAFAC Organisation
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Glad to see that the admin to volunteers is being reduced (not!).
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As someone who has trialled this, how have you found it?
I got as far as raising some issues and getting inadequate responses to resolve so didn’t get it completed.
Fell into the Important / Not Urgent bucket so didn’t get completed
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That’s not a trial. That’s a kangaroo court!
Received a “reminder” yesterday the first month survey is due under this. Have pushed back on my sector officer to clarify the legal position on this shift of responsibility to volunteers. Let’s see what happens…
We received a STOP notice from our WHQ in early April and have since been advised not to action the latest reminder until further advice is received from our RHQ.
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On what basis?
Unsure at the moment. All we have been told is that further guidance is required from RHQ before we proceed with the Firse Safety Assurance Checks.
Can update once i know more…
Completed the 1st Form on Friday night, today I’ve fired off 6 emails to the CAA who is the paid building custodian employed by the RFCA.
- Damaged Fire Door
- Failed Emergency Lighting
- Do you do a Weekly Alarm Test?
- Do you record this?
- Damaged Fire Door Frame (separate to damaged door)
- How can we sound the Fire Alarm so the Cadets know what it sounds like?
What a way to spend my Bank Holiday!!
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Life of a Sqn OC.
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So now one or all the 6 email recipients takes fright, stops the unit parading until the required rectifications take place?
Work commencing in when, one day, one week, one month or one year?
More likely a whinging phone call tomorrow while I’m at work
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I completed that online survey. I’ve done the jobs of the building custodian (CAA). They don’t check the alarm or if they do they don’t write it in the log book. They won’t give me a code to test the alarm, and I don’t have any key to test the call points.
This has been raised for years and no one does anything about it. For that reason I am ignoring this whole issue.
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It’ll be interesting how many kittens come out of that survey…
I openly told them I’m not inspecting fire doors, until they either pay me to do so or they provide me training. There is a reason fire risk assessors and fire safety consultants exist. If it could be done by an untrained volunteer I doubt those roles would be needed.
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It very nearly happened in Jersey, that part of the local CAA contract would include doing some tasks for us. The RC at the time was very keen, mostly because the ACF would pay. Unfortunately the part time post was relocated back to the UK, before it went anywhere…
The problem was that the task he was going to do at that time, weren’t that onerous. And I am not sure we would have felt that much benefit.
There are so many “things” you can’t do in the A.T.C. without training or a “bit of paper” yet they want sqn staff to do this without training/“bit of paper”.
I had training through my work but my answer to them would be “No training NO doing!” SORRY!
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So how’s the implementation of this on the ground going?
I note from the HQ email the returns have been “mixed”
Straight forward although I am currently not sharing with any other cadet unit which ensures that we control it.