SA Firefighter

I heard from a reliable source that the RAA have been badly quoted by news.com.au (is anyone surprised at that?) and that they weren't against the speed limits - just that they are difficult to (and normally not) enforce/d at the moment, so the focus should be on education rather than just changing the laws.

Makes sense to me.

Always liked this PSA video: http://www.safetycommunity.com/video/slow-down-its-no-picnic

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They were tasty scones too.

Quote from: jaff on February 04, 2008, 04:18:38 PM
Hi Will0936, its looks like you are in the dispatch section of SAAS ,from your posts,if so maybe you can let me know if there is a service level agreement for the role of dispatch/operator .Welcome aboard as RescueHazmat said its good to get the hard facts from the source.

Cheers Jaff

Not sure what you mean by SLA? As in do we have Standard Operating Procedures for who else to call?

Quote from: chook on February 04, 2008, 05:31:00 PM
Ah but they are saying "not us" & SAAS are saying "well its not us either".
So where is the road block then?
Could it possibly be a mixture of both? Who knows - we don't seem to have the same problems - lately.
cheers

I have no doubt it's a bit of both - hell, I know I've forgotten to call Adelaide Fire for a VA in Barmera, it was only when SAPOL asked if I'd called them that I remembered. Quite often someone else in the room will also confirm if everyone else has been told. The info I provided above was only for the particular job.

In their defence - there may still be a few people here that don't call them, but I doubt it.

As an aside guys, I took one of the calls to SAAS for the Manoora VA, and while I was still on the phone to the original caller, another person was notifying SAPOL and MFS/CFS/SES, so there was certainly no delay from us telling everyone else about it. This is standard procedure for all country VA's, any shortfalls in this is an individual Call Taker problem, but everyone I work with is well aware of it.
Rule of thumb I use is if it's country, everyone comes out to play, no matter how minor it may seem.
As for who was tasked, I couldn't say anything as I wasn't involved in that side of it.

Oh, and the MULTIPLE HAZARDS on pages automatically comes up when we select more than one hazard (be it Traffic, Spillage, Animals, or Police Required) - this quite often happens at VA's as the CAD sometimes adds Police Required, so as soon as we add Traffic as a hazard, it'll go to Multiple Hazards.