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All Equipment discussion / Re: Ordering of PBI Gold
« on: January 29, 2007, 12:36:02 PM »
Medevac from reading your posts for some time I think you know more about the reasons behind this and just choosing to ignore them.
The Sturt Group has carried out a risk assessment on the Nomex uniform for using it as intended. However no risk assessment has been carried out on the PBI gold gear by anyone for use at anything. This may be one of the reasons Sturt Group hasn't issued it. A risk assessment is meant to be done on just about everything these days but hasn't been done on the PBI uniform. Perhaps if you turn you attention more to the fact the state/region hasn't issued the Sturt group with the requested safety and operational documentation you may get somewhere.
The Sturt Group isn't afraid to lead. I think you will find when the Sturt Group (then Mitcham Hills) went for two piece uniforms it wasn't towing the CFSHQ line who were all for cotton overalls. Sturt Group didn't tow the line on appliance design producing some appliances that are arguably better then their CFS issued replacements 20 years later. It didn't tow the line on rescue gear bypassing CFSHQ to give Blackwood the gear they needed.
OK you don't look as hip and cool as a Mt Lofty fire fighter passed out from heat stress while wearing PBI at a strike team, but there is logic and principle behind this.
While I suspect you know all this already if you don't you should talk to your Captain or Lieutenant that attend the monthly group meetings as I suspect this gets brought up every single time.
*edit to remove reference to BWD*
The Sturt Group has carried out a risk assessment on the Nomex uniform for using it as intended. However no risk assessment has been carried out on the PBI gold gear by anyone for use at anything. This may be one of the reasons Sturt Group hasn't issued it. A risk assessment is meant to be done on just about everything these days but hasn't been done on the PBI uniform. Perhaps if you turn you attention more to the fact the state/region hasn't issued the Sturt group with the requested safety and operational documentation you may get somewhere.
The Sturt Group isn't afraid to lead. I think you will find when the Sturt Group (then Mitcham Hills) went for two piece uniforms it wasn't towing the CFSHQ line who were all for cotton overalls. Sturt Group didn't tow the line on appliance design producing some appliances that are arguably better then their CFS issued replacements 20 years later. It didn't tow the line on rescue gear bypassing CFSHQ to give Blackwood the gear they needed.
OK you don't look as hip and cool as a Mt Lofty fire fighter passed out from heat stress while wearing PBI at a strike team, but there is logic and principle behind this.
While I suspect you know all this already if you don't you should talk to your Captain or Lieutenant that attend the monthly group meetings as I suspect this gets brought up every single time.
*edit to remove reference to BWD*