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Staffing Broken Hill

Composite Appliance at 239 Station Broken Hill South To be Staffed in Accordance with Notice dated 22 October 2007. Members attached to 238 Station Broken Hill and 239 Broken Hill…

Safety First. 3M foam banned – return to sender

Use or storage of the 3M products known as 3% and 6% Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) concentrate is now banned by the Union. Even though the Department has stopped…

Do your bit for David Hicks: sign this petition today

Members may be surprised to learn that after a five year delay, David Hicks’ appointment with a perverted form of justice will begin today when he is arraigned in a…

Interim understanding reached-Relieving bans to be lifted at 1800 hrs today

Extended proceedings before the Industrial Relations Commission today resulted in an interim agreement being reached between the Union and Department. For its part, the Union has agreed to lift the…

Update on Foam

This afternoon the Department and the Union met for a briefing about the current bans on the ‘3M AFFF’ foam concentrate and how best to deal with it without exposing…

How relevant is May Day?

This year’s May Day motto is the “struggle to repeal anti-working class laws”- a clumsy phrase that sounds like its been found in the pages of a dusty old textbook….

Safe work on roads and False Alarm Books

With the lifting of the ban on False Alarm Notifications (FANs), members are reminded that ONLY the new FANs books (labelled version E on the cover) are to be used….

All 3M AFFF Banned

All members are instructed not to use 3M AFFF foam concentrate either carried on your appliance or in your station’s store. If you have any doubt about the type of…

Update – Command and Control

Negotiations between the Department and the Union on Friday 27th July have seen substantial progress made with Assistant Commissioner Benson managing to steady the ship and move negotiations forward in…