The
completion of a recent contract undertaken on behalf
of Land Securities Trillium for their own and BBC
staff at Bush House saw 2027 people trained in Fire
Safety Awareness and Fire Wardens trained in their
own procedures and the practical use of extinguishers.
A training room set aside for a rolling programme
of sessions was in constant use over a five week period
with a sixth week used for peripatetic training throughout
the Bush House complex to enable BBC World Service
personnel to be trained in their own sections. These
ranged from Albanian, American, African sections through
Press Office, Finance and Legal to Persian/Pashto,
Russian and Thai sections. If operational requirements
dictated it, training was taken to relevant sections.
A
cycle shed area in the car park was utilised for practical
training using FIT’s environmentally-friendly
fire trainer enabling a real fire experience 20 metres
from The Strand
Favourable
comments were received through, such as the following:
“I
attended the fire safety session in Room 728 Centre
Block Bush House on 15th March 2004 at 11 am. I want
to express my gratitude for such an excellent presentation.
I
have been working in Bush House for the last 14 years
and attended several such sessions but today’s
illustrated lecture was some thing very very different
from all previous fire trainings.
From
the first sentence of the presenter it caught our
attention and we were all ears throughout the session.
I
think the reason for this huge success was that the
presenter changed an otherwise official and impersonal
affair into a very PERSONAL CONCERN for all of us.
Please convey my congratulations to the presenter.”
BBC
WS STAFF MEMBER
“I
am writing to put our appreciation on record for the
departmental fire training we received on the 17th
March. Many of my colleagues commented how different
it was from previous trainings; how it really grabbed
their attention and how relevant it was to not only
safety of their work environment but also to private
lives.
Please
pass our thanks to the fire officer who conducted
the training.”
BBC
WS STAFF MEMBER
“Dear Jane,
I
have sat through many annual fire training lectures
over the years. Some have just gone through the motions.
Most of the ones I have attended since joining the
BBC have been reasonably good. But none have come
close to the one delivered by Chris Sullivan today.
Unusually he made no apology for taking us away from
our busy workplaces. Instead he held our attention
for the full hour. No jokes. A brilliant delivery
of a very strong message.
Top
marks to First Intervention Training
BBC
WS STAFF MEMBER
“Jane,
I
expect you have had other comments but I have to say
that I felt the fire training this year was the best
ever, really relevant, personal, clear, energetic,
in short excellent – and he covered the contingency
arrangements really well also.
Many
thanks
WS BBC STAFF MEMBER
First
Intervention Training wish to convey its thanks to
Land Securities Trillium and BBC World Services for
their hospitality and look forward to working with
them again in the future.