I was in a meeting recently and two things struck me.
- there are absolutely crapping them selves over HI
- CI is not on their radar.
What gave this impression?
The way they were talking about HI and the consequences of it.
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Consequences to personnel, or to the organisation / senior leaders if we have a glut of HI reports?
When there is snow on the ground in Cranwell expect a pause until the relevant mandatory training is completed.
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Cold injury is more expensive to sort than heat injury
Hear injury - stop working go in shade etc
Cold Injury - ah so we need to fix the heating & cold water for all our accommodations blocks that only have old coal boilers. Let’s hold off on enforcing the policy until we get the maintenance sorted.
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The cold injuries training applies for all activity taking place in an ambient temperature below 15°C. So we’ll need it long before there’s snow on the ground!
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It’s quite simple really, the military has killed people with heat injuries recently, they’ve only hurt people with cold injuries so the former is their priority.
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The problem with cold injury is that it can lead to long term disability at worst and at best may render a person non-deployable.
Ah yes, the application of a risk profile of a fighting force to a youth organisation. Seems legit.
Wonder if anyone has stopped and wondered how many young people we’ve killed with heat injuries since the organisation was formed. Or indeed paused and asked themselves… “Is this proportionate and applicable to this environment?”
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Unfortunately, that would take some common sense and a bit of effort both of which doesnt appear to form part of our organisation!
It is far easier to copy and paste.
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Ah it was so much easier in the days when CFAV were responsible adults, and if not could be sent to Court Martial
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How many Sqn buildings struggle to reach that temperature in winter?
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Ours will definitely reach it once… although it does often escalate and has the potential to lead to some significant Heat Related Illness (which isn’t covered in our training). And the building can’t be used again afterwards.
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There was a cadet unit with a hospitalised heat injury last year. The subsequent investigation found that the cadet’s home squadron failed to pass on information that would have indicated enhanced monitoring was needed. Just because it’s a cadet don’t assume that the MOD won’t come down on you over supervision, especially if you’re on a camp and haven’t factored in rest days etc.
Are the RAFAC going to fund the heat being left on all over winter to maintain the required temperature levels, would RFCA allow it on safety grounds and most importantly who pays for the excess heating bill?
Or would this be an excuse for a winter long pause between December the first and the March the first?
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Any modern unit will have timers on the heaters that mean they can only be on for a max of 3 hours and then you have to press the button again.
But, you can also set those timers to come on before you walk in the door?
Not the ones on my old unit, they were attached to the plug sockets and had to be manually pressed:
You need to get one of these then.
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