October 2017 NewsletterWhat are we up to? Our two days at the Emergency Services Show were amazing. We spoke to so many people about the guidance, training and learning. We showcased our new website and WMFS kindly recorded the team doing a demo live from the show. You can see it here. We are looking for a new Chair for our National Implementation Forum. Andy Bowers has done a great job for us but now he is passing on the reins to someone new. Is that you? If you’re a strategic manager who would like to help influence the direction and quality of our guidance and help policy writers voice their views and share their feedback on using the guidance, then you may be perfect for us. Find out more by contacting Doc Holliday by email dholliday@ukfrs.com. Lots going on with our guidance this month: we’re reviewing responses to Water rescue and flooding; reviewing Transport guidance and foundation as well as Hazmat tier 1; peer review of Control and mobilising foundation is complete and we’re looking over that. The BA project board has approved BA foundation and if it gets through the next stages of our governance process, it is likely to be published later in November. Incidents Involving Animals consultation closes on 20 October. Any final responses can be submitted here. The consultation for guidance on Major incidents is still open. You have until midday on 30 October to respond to that. The Training Managers Seminar will take place on 22 and 23 November at Ettington Chase, Warwickshire. Like previous events, the Seminar provides a great way to make sure training managers know all about NOG, how it impacts on your training and how the Fire Central Programme Office (CPO) will support training and development within fire and rescue services. We are now consulting on phase three training specifications: Performing rescues, Hazardous materials, Subsurface, height, structures and confined spaces, Water rescue and flooding, and Fires on board vessels. Consultation is open until the 8th November. We will be publishing phase two training specifications following approval at project and programme boards. These are: Breathing Apparatus (BA), Operations, Environmental protection, Transport, Fires in waste facilities, Wildfires, and Fires in buildings under construction or demolition. Exciting opportunity: we are looking for a strategic manager to join the board as a Senior User to the National Operational Training Framework. This role would also temporarily take the Chair of the NOG Training Managers Forum. You can find out more here. Carl Barber has recently joined the engagement team to support fire and rescue services with implementing NOG specifically within training. If you would like a visit from Carl, then email engagement@ukfrs.com. To help understand what we’re doing, don’t forget we have produced a new animation. The project is at an important stage now as we have finalised the procurement specification for the new learning system. We will be looking for a supplier that can integrate a learning too with our great new website so that all services can share learning about incidents. If you aren’t in the ongoing trial of our new approach to capturing and sharing learning and want to submit learning, you can still do that by completing our online interim learning form. Don’t forget to check out our great new animation to find out a bit more. You can contact the team by email, NOLmail@ukfrs.com Out and about Chris Caswell hosted a workshop at West Midlands Fire Service to share his thoughts on how product packs can work for services looking to implement the guidance. If you’re interested in finding out more about this approach, please contact Chris direct. You can ask Chris to come and see you by emailing engagement@ukfrs.com. Coming upNovember 2017 Training Managers Seminar
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