Urgent Bouncy castles might hurt you. Ensure you read and understand that they might hurt you. Give me a break. why does this need to go out urgently to all?
Summer camps coming and given how bad the injury was, guess they want it out ahead of that
Who uses bouncy castles on annual camp?!
As part mass of staff in the ATC, I haven’t heard about the incident. All I can see is another common sense check on the activity.
It’s the hype that got me. Very Important they said. I was expecting something on bashas!
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I believed it stems from an incident at a families day rather than a summer camp where a cadet broke their leg on a bouncy castle, hence all the paperwork.
It was a summer camp, it was a nasty arm and leg.
It did make me chuckle. An urgent safety announcement on bouncy castles. Jelly can also hurt you. Ice cream is cold, watch out for brain freeze. Party Poppers aren’t allowed unless you’ve got an RCO ticket.
Due to the explosive content of the party poppers you would also need Explosive awareness as well as two people to transport it 
Although saying that: -
Wouldn’t party poppers come under the M Qual? Dangerous things that go bang! I’ve never seen bouncy castles on cadet activities or annual camps either 
Shot guns don’t. They come under sport. Much easier to organise.
It’s no surprise that they expect us to foresee the danger of a bouncy castle… Let’s not forget that they seem to expect us to predict lightning strikes and other acts of god.
It’s a wonder that Donald wasn’t head-hunted by the Met Office, or even MIT after that one.
I had to read this twice and look at the headings etc to make sure it wasn’t spam. Again it must be another slowwwwwwwwwwwwwww day in the H&S office.
It’s nonsense like this that makes people ignore H&S and makes H&S bods a laughing stock as a result potentially miss something important.
ACF have bouncy castles for internal training and public event. They call them assault courses and paint ball ranges.
Donald is just emphasising and underlining his string of post-nominal and showing just how on the ball his department is…
In reality, he’s justifying his position and salary but as said above, he’s making his department a laughing-stock into the bargain. He won’t be happy until every cadet is wrapped up in cotton wool and bubble-wrap.
[quote=“Gunner” post=18174]Donald is just emphasising and underlining his string of post-nominal and showing just how on the ball his department is…
In reality, he’s justifying his position and salary but as said above, he’s making his department a laughing-stock into the bargain. He won’t be happy until every cadet is wrapped up in cotton wool and bubble-wrap.[/quote]
Unfortunately you can’t use cotton wool and bubble-wrap anymore with cadets due to potential allergies. 
Distraction technique. HSE are giving us a good going-over with a D-Cell maglite, time to implement OPERATION SMOKE AND MIRRORS.
Bouncy castles: putting the “Air” back in the “Air Cadets”… if you can bounce high enough. Safely.
I’m surprised that we don’t have something like an ATC Tufty Badge or Green Cross Code or get told Clunk, Click Every Trip.
I wonder how long it will before we gte an directive to not walk on cracks in the pavement.
[quote=“glass half empty 2” post=18312]I’m surprised that we don’t have something like an ATC Tufty Badge[/quote]We almost do - that gold-star scheme for squadrons!