The latest ARRM Masterclass, a 30-minute webinar entitled ‘How do Highways England and the Emergency Services CLEAR a major incident on the Strategic Road Network?’ will take place on Wednesday 5 May at 11:00. Stephen Bird, Senior Advisor with Highways England Incident Management Requirements Team, will present the webinar and also take questions regarding Highways… Read more »
Words: Richard Stevenson, CEO, Red Box The majority of emergency responses start with a phone call, and capturing those conversations has always been critical to assist with operations, for investigative purposes and to meet legal obligations. For dispatch workers on the front line at risk of stress-related mental health issues resulting from higher call volumes… Read more »
A series of three new COAST torches with ‘super-lumens’ light outputs plus a host of additional ‘industry-leading’ features, the XPH-R range begins with the compact XPH25R at 400 lumens, moving to the XPH-30R at 1000 lumens, and ending with the XPH-34R at a massive 2075 lumens maximum light output. All three models are ‘dual power’,… Read more »
A series of four new COAST torches with ‘super-lumens’ light outputs plus a host of additional ‘industry-leading’ features, the XP-R range begins with the compact XP6R at 400 lumens, moving to the XP9R at 1000 lumens, the XP11R at 2100 lumens and ending with the flagship XP18R at a massive 3650 lumens maximum light output…. Read more »
Global safety equipment manufacturer MSA Safety Incorporated has announced the availability of LUNAR, a new multi-purpose search and rescue device. Resulting from years of working directly with firefighters, LUNAR uses cloud technology to deliver breakthrough fire-scene management capabilities for incident commanders. According to Nish Vartanian, MSA Chairman, President and CEO, the introduction of LUNAR delivers… Read more »
Medics at London’s Air Ambulance Charity only deal in life and death situations. Their helicopter and rapid response cars take an advanced trauma team to patients in the capital needing emergency medical treatment and who are unlikely to survive the journey to hospital. London’s Air Ambulance brings the hospital to the scene to deliver urgent… Read more »
Data from a survey of almost 4000 staff and volunteers across police, fire and ambulance services in the UK has laid bare the scale of poor mental health among emergency responders. The statistics come as Mind announces the relaunch of their Blue Light Programme of wellbeing support for the emergency services, which has been funded… Read more »
Sign up today to book your free place at the next TeamPolice webinar, which will discuss ‘The value of team sports to everyone’s wellbeing’? The webinar takes place on 13 April 2021 between 16.00 and 17.30. The April event will feature Matt Jukes QPM, Assistant Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police and Vanessa Jardine, Deputy Chief… Read more »
West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) is continuing its commitment to reducing its impact on the environment by taking delivery of two fully electric operational manager response cars. Following the launch of the UK’s first 100% electric ambulance by the trust in October 2020, WMAS has worked with its partner, conversion specialist VCS of Bradford, to… Read more »
Police, fire and rescue conversion specialist CM Specialist Vehicles is to be absorbed into the VCS brand. This integration enables closer technical collaboration between both manufacturing sites, engineering, operations and procurement, and commits the divisions to a common set of procedural excellence. Restructure is a planned stage of parent company Woodall Nicholson’s long-term growth strategy… Read more »
