05/04/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: For Information
| National
The introduction of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996, and Subsequent Hazardous Substances (classes 1 to 5 controls) regulations 2001 make it mandatory for people conducting pyrotechnic displays to obtain written approval.
04/04/2017
| Audience: Operational personnel only
| Status: Safety Notice
| National
Action
Volunteer Support Officers, hose and waterway maintenance personnel, and career operational officers to identify all thin-walled couplings and immediately remove from service in accordance with the priority outlined. Area Managers to ensure all thin-walled couplings are identified, removed from service, and disabled so they cannot be used again.
03/04/2017
| Audience: All Personnel
| Status: Safety Notice
| National
Firequip hosereel tubing is NOT to be used for internal firefighting until further notice.