If you have not yet attended the Evacuation training, or its been over two years since your last training, we have a new, combined, Evacuation and Fire Extinguisher training session coming up next Monday 10 April. The morning session (9am-11.30am) only has a couple of spaces left, but the afternoon session (12.30pm -3.00pm) still has spaces.

The training is facilitated by Sean Yeates, from Fire Fighting Pacific. He spent many years in the UK Fire Service and more recently was stationed down in Dunedin. He has plenty of first-hand knowledge to share and the hands-on experience actually using Fire Extinguishers is always a very worthwhile experience (and quite fun). I found this training increased my confidence in managing evacuations, and more importantly gave me confidence to pick up an extinguisher and use it if necessary.

The enrolment form is at the top of the H&S training page https://intranet.canterbury.ac.nz/hs/info-training/index.shtml if you would like to join Sean on Monday . Training is in the Erskine building and the Fire Extinguisher hands-on exercise is outside (rain or shine).

Places are limited so please get your enrolment form to us as soon as possible. The final training session for 2017 follows the September trial evacuations, and is in October.

Tim O’Sullivan (passing on news from Angie Willington H&S Central)