Page 2002 - Week 05 - Thursday, 16 May 2019
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• The ACT Fire & Rescue POD capability can be deployed at any time and has the specific capacity to manage a light rail incident.
ACTF&R participated in two Light Rail exercises organised by Canberra Metro:
• The first took place on 28 March, which included ACTF&R firefighters lifting a Light Rail Vehicle using the lifting equipment specifically purchased for this purpose. The Technical Rescue POD, which contains this equipment, was deployed to the exercise.
• The second exercise took place on 30 March with the scenario being a fire on a Light Rail Vehicle. ACTF&R Commander participated in the Operations Control Centre during this drill to provide feedback and oversight to Canberra Metro personnel. No active fire was utilised in this drill as it was a table top exercise.
As part of the Recruit College, all new staff in their 21 week recruit induction training program cover all aspects of basic rescue training and safety for incidents. A major focus is on the use of hydraulic rescue equipment for Road Crash Rescue.
ACT Fire & Rescue is confident in the abilities of their service and personnel to respond to any incident involving light or heavy vehicles including the light rail vehicle.
Municipal services—waste collection
Mr Steel (in reply to a supplementary question by Ms Le Couteur on Thursday, 21 March 2019):
The bicycle parking at Baileys Corner and on London Circuit will be replaced before the end of May.
ACT Health—workplace culture
Ms Fitzharris (in reply to a question by Mr Hanson on Thursday, 21 March 2019):
Risk to people’s wellbeing is captured in the ACT Health Directorate organisational risk register.
The ACT Government takes issues of bullying and harassment in the workplace extremely seriously as demonstrated by the significant program of work underway to address the workplace culture issues that have been documented in the Independent Review into Workplace Culture within ACT Public Health Services.
The new Culture Review Oversight Committee that I chair will monitor progress towards addressing the Review recommendations. The ACT Health Directorate will lead the implementation of recommendations across the ACT public health sector, and report regularly to the Oversight Committee on progress.
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