Minutes of the meeting held on 2 February 2009 in the LIC, room 703
Present: Jerry, David, Jane, Katrina, Ian, Mike, Diane, Iain, Christine
Apologies: Mark, Syed
| 1 | Minutes of August meeting (4 December 2008) | |
| Accepted without amendments or changes. | ||
| 2 | Matters arising | |
| 2.1 | Communications: Steve Roberts is now using a GPS-based system (uses TETRA masts?) that may be rolled out to FRs in the future. | |
| 2.2 | Out of date items: Now replaced in all bags. In future one bag in turn will be taken to bi-monthly training sessions and checked. | |
| 2.3 | Photos: Jerry will ask ACU if he can have copies of staff card photos to put on the website. | |
| 2.4 | Rogue button on website: These have been removed. | |
| 2.5 | Report pro-forma page: This has been created but won't work on the Novell server that hosts the website. Jerry looking to move the website to a Microsoft server. | |
| 3 | Calls received | |
| The 5 calls received since the December meeting were discussed. It was agreed that Jerry should ask Pete Deacon if the switchboard operators could follow a checklist when dealing with a 333/999 call and that one of the items on the checklist could be to ask someone to go to the main entrance of the building to guide in the FRs and paramedics to the casualty. | ||
| 4 | Emergency call procedure | |
| Jerry reported on a meeting he'd attended in the telephone exchange recently during which he received provisional agreement from all concerned that, to ensure that FRs would only attend incidents with appropriate AMPDS codes, they should only be tasked by ambulance control. If ambulance control have trouble contacting the duty FR on the mobile then they may ask the switchboard to attempt to contact him/her via a landline. | ||
| 5 | Health Fayre | |
| It was agreed to host a stand at the upcoming Health Fayre to be held in Fulton House on 6th and 7th May. Jerry will be asking for volunteers to man the stand in the future. In the meantime all suggestions as to what we can display and demonstrate will be gratefully received. | ||
| 5 | Refresher training | |
| The first session went very well with an action plan for deployment of the AED in an emergency being formulated. The second session will follow on 5 February. | ||
| 6 | Any other business | |
| 6.1 | Jane to check if her card opens the TAC lock on the first floor in Margam. | |
| 6.2 | Jerry to investigate buying a pulse oximeter for each bag or another such device that will display a casualty's pulse. | |
| 6.3 | FRs asked to check for Medi Alert bracelets or necklaces when arriving at incidents. | |
| 6.4 | FRs warned about the remote but possible malicious placement of dirty needles in light switches that could cause needle stick injuries. | |
| 6 | Date of next training session and business meeting | |
| Training session - Monday 2 March 2009 @ 1.00 pm in room 703. | ||
| Meeting - Monday 6 April 2009 @ 1.00 pm in room 703. | ||
| JGC 06/02/09 | ||