 Hi, my name is Glenn Jennings and my role in CFA is that of the state driving coordinator. So my position in CFA is to coordinate driver education, also get involved in vehicle design, vehicle manufacturers, as far as our firefighting and air transport vehicles, the production of the relevant training and assessment packages for those vehicles and I also manage the collision investigation team. So some of the major work that's going on regards driver training in CFA at the moment is that of the state driving strategy. Following the tragic death of two volunteer firefighters several years ago, CFA gave a commitment to improve our driver education and provide a safe environment for our drivers and also for the communities. We have been working on this strategy for a number of years which is quite complex. Our Chief Officer Steve Warrington has recently confirmed what his requirements are for our members in particular our volunteers. As a result we're going to have a two tier approach. The brigades in categories one and two which are our lower risk will have an internal qualification that we are working towards whereas our busier brigades in our more urban areas in categories three four and five will be required to undertake the national competency which is drive vehicles under operational conditions. This decision has been made by the Chief based upon risk and activity and obviously those risks are increased as you drive in our more urban areas. So this is a major change for CFA. For our career staff back in 1972 it was made mandatory that all of our staff undertook a driving course to a national standard. It hasn't been the same for our volunteers even though we do hold national competencies and we have been working towards those for a number of years it has not been mandatory for all of our volunteers to have this requirement. So it is a major change for CFA however for a lot of our people it should be an easy process to go from what they're currently doing to meeting new requirements. For our category one and category two it will be an internal requirement an internal competency of which will be probably based around a one day course. Part of that course will be to understand the legislation and the Chief Officers SOPs and a presentation about driver behaviour and attitude and how to make sure that they drive in a safe environment. For our category three four and five as I said it will be the national competency of which a large number of our members already hold their competency and many of the districts are already conducting courses. We are still to determine what the operational requirements will be for off-road driving. So we still have to do a fair bit of work with the ops managers and brigade management teams as to how many members in each brigade needs off-road driver training. At this stage there is no fixed timeframe for the rollout of the program. We are still going through all the numbers to determine how many in each category are required for each of the brigades. We also are doing an audit of our volunteer drive instructors to determine how many have the appropriate train and assess competencies to be both trainers and assessors. Once we get our final numbers which we hope to have in the next couple of months we'll be able to determine as to how long the program will be to roll out to achieve our numbers across the state. Driving is a very emotive subject and everyone believes that you know why should they need to go and do something they already hold a license. However history has shown that every person who's attended the CFA course is coming away learning something in particular update to road rules. So yes there is going to be some opposition we know that however it will be a process where we will provide a lot more opportunities than what we did previously to make it a little bit easier for everybody. Those who have skills from outside the organization that can be transferred across will be recognizing those. Instead of making everybody do a course you can have a look at the skills pack and have a look and go I actually believe that I can meet those outcomes we can offer a challenge test so you may find a 30 or 40 minute drive and you can be signed off. However the major component that will be part of this process will be CFA legislation and SOPs and policies. Our collision investigations have revealed that over the years a majority of these have been caused by our members not having poor driving schools it's been by them not understanding or complying with the Chief Officers SOPs road rules or state or federal legislation. We currently deliver this program as a face-to-face program however I can advise that in coming months there will be an online presentation available where members who have access to computers or tablets etc can go online work their way through the online presentation undertake the formal assessment which will then be recognized on your respective training record. Members may also be aware of some recent changes in relation to fatigue and driving records under the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator and also under some changes that come in on the 1st of October in relation to the chain of responsibility. These are nationally driven and CFA currently has a working party in place looking at the new legislation and then any impacts it's going to have on CFA members particularly our volunteers. We have a lot of good safe systems of work currently in place and we're working through those to ensure that if they need tweaking we can do the relevant changes and then to communicate those changes out to our members. It is going to take us several months to go through the legislation and all the impacts and you'll hear more from us in the coming months. We are aware that many of our members are aware of these proposed changes because they actually own vehicles over the 4.5 tons or in particularly 12 tons that does have an impact. Our farmers who are members out there have been advised of the changes and it will affect them in some way. So it is going to be some natural you know it will be naturally concerned for our people out there. However we believe that a lot of the systems and with some of the new ones that we will consider we'll be able to meet the legislation. In relation to vehicle operations we know that our fire ground practices or FGPs are at a date and we're currently working through that process at the moment. We have now a full-time member who is reviewing all of those FGPs this person being operations manager Mark Glover and our role is to make sure that during 2019 all FGP practices are updated and loaded for our members to use online.