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Originally posted by Angel of the North:
Find out what the training involves first Bun...at our place I was going to do it till I found out part of the training involves wearing breathing apparatus and crawling through a dark smoke filled room

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Originally posted by El Loro:

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Originally posted by Angel of the North:
Find out what the training involves first Bun...at our place I was going to do it till I found out part of the training involves wearing breathing apparatus and crawling through a dark smoke filled room

That's sensible. I worked in an office of about 100 people, and there was no suggestion that we would ever be expected to start wearing breathing apparatus etc. Obviously someone working in a chemical plant for instance would be more likely to have to do this.

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Originally posted by Angel of the North:

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Originally posted by El Loro:

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Originally posted by Angel of the North:
Find out what the training involves first Bun...at our place I was going to do it till I found out part of the training involves wearing breathing apparatus and crawling through a dark smoke filled room

That's sensible. I worked in an office of about 100 people, and there was no suggestion that we would ever be expected to start wearing breathing apparatus etc. Obviously someone working in a chemical plant for instance would be more likely to have to do this.

But I am a librarian

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Originally posted by El Loro:
I was a fire marshal at my old office. There were several of us chosen to be marshals. We were given some basic training by professionals in how to assist in evacuating the premises and in using types of fire extinguisher (as different types are used depending on the type of fire). The course should be aimed at giving the marshals the confidence to act in an emergency.

It was stressed that we should not do anything which would put our lives at risk - we certainly were not expected to single-handedly put out fires which had got out of control.

We never had an event where we had to put what we had learnt into action. But I remembered what I was taught, and one day what I learnt may save my life or someone else's life.

So please think about this before trying to get out of it, unless you have a genuine reason, in which case be straight with your manager.

You may think that you are useless in a crisis, but if you have the knowledge as to what to do, you will find that you are not useless, and that is what the training should provide - the knowledge.

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Originally posted by Angel of the North:
Find out what the training involves first Bun...at our place I was going to do it till I found out part of the training involves wearing breathing apparatus and crawling through a dark smoke filled room

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Originally posted by BeerBelle:
do you get a financial incentive. i used to be a first aider and i got £100 at xmas for my troubles. i never even had to dispense a plaster!

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Originally posted by El Loro:

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Originally posted by Angel of the North:
Find out what the training involves first Bun...at our place I was going to do it till I found out part of the training involves wearing breathing apparatus and crawling through a dark smoke filled room

That's sensible. I worked in an office of about 100 people, and there was no suggestion that we would ever be expected to start wearing breathing apparatus etc. Obviously someone working in a chemical plant for instance would be more likely to have to do this.

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Originally posted by Bagel Queen:
Its amazing how in control you will feel when you put the Hi-Vis on

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Originally posted by San:
How about that it will be impossible for you to run to the fire extinguisher and to evacuate everyone due to your impossibly high heels

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Originally posted by BeerBelle:
do you get a financial incentive. i used to be a first aider and i got £100 at xmas for my troubles. i never even had to dispense a plaster!

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Originally posted by Baby Bunny:

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Originally posted by Bagel Queen:
Its amazing how in control you will feel when you put the Hi-Vis on

I have thought of a few pluses but the Hi-Vis isn’t one of them.

The pluses are (from what I have observed): The fire martials are always last out of the building which means they are always first back when we get the all clear – useful if it’s raining – which it usually is! Another plus is that the martials tend to mill about in the foyer where the FIREMEN also mill about discussing the incident if it’s a low risk incident or false alarm.

Previously I have had to content myself with gazing at them from afar but this would give me the opportunity to err... "throng" in their midst?

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Originally posted by *Yogi Bear*:
Bunny i work in a company that does survival and health and safety training i will find a course descriptor for you tomorrow and can post it on here if you like. Let me know xx

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Originally posted by *Yogi Bear*:

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Originally posted by Baby Bunny:

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Originally posted by Bagel Queen:
Its amazing how in control you will feel when you put the Hi-Vis on

I have thought of a few pluses but the Hi-Vis isn’t one of them.

The pluses are (from what I have observed): The fire martials are always last out of the building which means they are always first back when we get the all clear – useful if it’s raining – which it usually is! Another plus is that the martials tend to mill about in the foyer where the FIREMEN also mill about discussing the incident if it’s a low risk incident or false alarm.

Previously I have had to content myself with gazing at them from afar but this would give me the opportunity to err... "throng" in their midst?

Bunny i work in a company that does survival and health and safety training i will find a course descriptor for you tomorrow and can post it on here if you like. Let me know xx

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Originally posted by onetoo:

Oooh, that sounds a bit like the company I've just found a job with.A training provider.

We had someone supposed to start on a 'Rope Access' course yesterday. He didn't turn up cos he's just come out with......he's frightened of heights

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Originally posted by *Yogi Bear*:

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Originally posted by onetoo:

Oooh, that sounds a bit like the company I've just found a job with.A training provider.

We had someone supposed to start on a 'Rope Access' course yesterday. He didn't turn up cos he's just come out with......he's frightened of heights

pmsl who do you work for cause we don't do rope access and we keep getting asked who does... and as we have a centre in billingham i can direct them to you

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Originally posted by *Yogi Bear*:
we've got one in Aberdeen and one in Billingham, it's falck nutec i work for. Up here we mostly do offshore survival and in billingham it heads more towards the health and safety side but they do a lot of windfarm stuff too these days

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Originally posted by *Yogi Bear*:

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Originally posted by BeerBelle:
do you get a financial incentive. i used to be a first aider and i got £100 at xmas for my troubles. i never even had to dispense a plaster!

i got an extra £10 a month and got pee'd on

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Originally posted by onetoo:
Probably a better one though

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Originally posted by onetoo:
Oh flip, I'm sorry Bunn. I appear to have taken over this thread

but hey..no pointless posts eh

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Originally posted by Baby Bunny:

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Originally posted by onetoo:
Oh flip, I'm sorry Bunn. I appear to have taken over this thread

but hey..no pointless posts eh

Never mind about that - I feel honoured!

As I type 3 of my very own pointless posts are lined up in a neat row!!!

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Originally posted by Mike Strutter:
Bun
just go the training day ...
Free dinner
then start playing with matches in the corner and have Firestarter as a ringtone ,hahaha