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Shirley Singleton for training in presentation skills

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

I deliver short courses for AIRAH in their Building Code of Australia (BCA) Seminars (and, with Stuart McLennan, assess the BCA unit in AIRAH’s  Graduate Certificate of Air Conditioning Code Compliance). Carolyn Hughes the RTO and Education Manager at AIRAH, organised some terrific training for the presenters and assessors at AIRAH last year. This year’s training was also good, but it just higlighted how much I enjoyed Shirley’s two day workshop on presenting.

The testimonials on Shirely’s web site demonstrate just how much she gives and you will get from her training. I highly recommend Shirley.

PS I just found out on LinkedIn that she is writing a(nother) book (and completing her MBA.) I am still throwing the chocolates Shirley!

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What information do we need to maintain our building’s ESM?

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

I started writing this blog post after a discussion with a CEO of an Aged Care facility who said I was the first person (they could remember) who said that they didn’t have the necessary information to maintain their Essential Safety Measures (ESM), let alone sign an Annual Essential Safety Measure report.

I suspect that the CEO was initially skeptical and thought I was possibly angling for consulting work, but when the CEO realised that they didn’t have the full story and had not been told by others, I started to fear more for the safety of their maintenance providers.

We are actually talking about the sort of information you need to operate a building successfully, but let’s narrow it down again before this post gets too big. We can usefully sort the nature of the information into some categories. These are:

  1. What ESM are in the building;
  2. What installation standard were the ESM installed to;
  3. What standard of maintenance and frequency of maintenance should be undertaken to keep the ESM operating at the installation standard;

Let’s have a look in more detail at the sort of information we are looking for (more…)

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