19/06/2019
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: Safety Notice
| National
ActionAll personnel are to follow the instructions below when pressure testing hose. SituationThis notice is an update to notice 013/2019. Last month, a hose burst while it was being pressure tested resulting in a firefighter sustaining a serious injury.
31/05/2019
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: Safety Notice
| National
Pressure testing of all hoses is to stop immediately until further notice.
24/05/2019
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: Safety Notice
| National
An update to our response to increased wear being found on some Aluminium Trussed Rescue Ladders.
06/05/2019
| Audience: Operational personnel only
| Status: Safety Notice
| National
As of immediate effect, Aluminium Trussed Rescue Ladders are only to be used as per the ‘instructions for immediate mitigation’ in this notice until further advised.
18/04/2019
| Audience: Operational personnel only
| Status: Safety Notice
| National
A reminder for operational personnel to follow the correct procedure when cleaning BA masks and BA sets.
26/03/2019
| Audience: Operational personnel only
| Status: Safety Notice
| National
Read this National Safety Notice so you will know how to keep yourself, your team, and your community safe when working around floodwaters.
12/02/2019
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: Safety Notice
| National
Safety notice on how tyres on trucks, cranes and other heavy vehicles may catch fire under a range of circumstances, with the obvious potential for them to then explode.
20/12/2018
| Audience: Operational personnel only
| Status: Safety Notice
| National
This notice has been amended on 29 January 2019. This is the updated version. If you have printed out the earlier notice, please replace with this copy.All operational personnel are advised to follow this information for fitting and wearing a P2 respiratory mask if responding to vegetation fires, if not already wearing an APR. This notice is in place until further notice.
19/12/2018
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: Safety Notice
| Te Ūpoko (previously Region 3)
| Area 15 Hutt-Wairarapa
After the latest round of chainsaw training, it is pertinent that all staff are aware of the minimum acceptable requirements / standards for operating a chainsaw within Area 15.
19/12/2018
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: Safety Notice
| National
All brigades must immediately check the seatbelts of all vehicles on station and follow the actions in this notice if required.