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OMGWTF:
--- Quote from: K55 on October 13, 2008, 05:31:50 PM ---The rescue brigade in my group have a Fork lift with several attachments as well as props eg: water barriers, poles, powerline, crates and a mock stobie. Theres an abundance of scenarios that can be created.
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:-o Nice!!!
boredmatrix:
why do practical training?
every job is going to be vastly different - and if you lot are as smart or as good as you all proclaim to be.....then that makes you a team of quick-on your feet-lateral thinking professional volunteers who can manage anything that gets thrown your way without any politics or inter-agency issues
OMGWTF:
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SA Firey:
Dont forget to do a risk assessment for the group exercise first :-P
Heaven help you if you have to use a chainsaw to cut a tree down to effect a rescue....but wait you'll need DEH to do that because CFS dont reaccredit their chainsaww operators :-P
Pixie:
Because the maintenance of competencies is vital is us retaining the status of "quick-on your feet-lateral thinking professional volunteers who can manage anything that gets thrown your way without any politics or inter-agency issues"
some things are possible to learn without hands on approaches, but others are not, also, not everyone learns in the same manner, nor retains knowledge in the same way.
Also mock incidents allow more experienced members to step back and watch the less experienced ones work, without the politics related with having the most appropriate person doing whatever. ie. having a rescue operator with 15 years+ on the tools, always taking over and not letting equally capable young/new people work. (seen that happen.)
This can achieve 2. main things, 1. It can give the older more experienced operators confidence in the younger ones skills, (and the cfs's ability to train people well.) 2. the older/more experienced people can note down things which concern them done by less experienced operators, and bring these up at the post "incident" debrief, (like we all have :evil:)
**SA Firey, Sounds like you guys got the risk assessment thing brought up at your meeting tonight too **
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