009/2019: Cleaning Breathing Apparatus (BA) masks and BA sets
A reminder for operational personnel to follow the correct procedure when cleaning BA masks and BA sets.
A reminder for operational personnel to follow the correct procedure when cleaning BA masks and BA sets.
Read this National Safety Notice so you will know how to keep yourself, your team, and your community safe when working around floodwaters.
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.
Ex-leased structural PPE on sale
A decision has been made to check all rural fire supplied overalls and command vests, following previous National Notices.
We’ve been informed that our Level 1 PPE doesn’t fully meet the Wildfire Firefighting standard. Until we rectify this, take the following safety steps when you wear Level 1 garments at vegetation fires.
Special guidance for personnel working on roadways
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.