Sorry guys - I have to disagree - what a load of ......! To what standard are they traning in BA - I'm guessing to industry standard, not fire service. Similar to verticle resuce/confioned space rescue - there are new international standards - twine line rescue, new confined space practices with appropriate PPC and monitoring equip - surely it's time that the services stopped going of on tangents!
In one page most of us are talking and agreeing on reducing duplication - here we are seeing it and endorsing it and its without a standard ...... how hard can it be?
I don't care who does it, honestly don't give a toss, but I believe it's about time that we adopted a common standard across the state - if the two fire services can do it for training (CABA, RCR, HAZMAT, AIIMS, Compartment etc, etc, etc), then surely SES can too - it's not that hard, the materials there, SAFECom own it, register it (as the RTO)so it's not even a $$$ thing - it's people in silos - morons, pig headed individuals, who need to build empires, castles and have small mans sindrome!
Am I pissed by this .... YES! I have watched this happen, we aren't getting closer together as we all speak, we are infact condoning the multiple standards, the silos and rejecting the shareing, standardising and providing the best service to OUR communities.
Ahhh, thats better, sorry, but needed to get that off my chest - I'm sick of seeing silos being built, the sooner the old dead, has been wood is removed from our services and we learn to share, built together the better