Total Fire Ban affecting your training schedule?
South Australian businesses will suffer the inconvenience today of having scheduled fire training cancelled due to the total fire ban across the state, unless you are a customer of Australian Fire & First Aid. We are the only company in SA to provide digital fire training and therefore the only ones who can proceed with … Read more
WHS laws finally passed in SA
For regular followers of our safety blog it will come as no surprise that harmonised Work Health Safety legislation has recently been passed in SA. Over the past 12 months we have maintained close links with Safework SA and have kept you up to date with the latest news, predicting several months ago that the … Read more
Change your clocks and clean your smoke detector
It’s HERE, happy daylight savings everyone, we hope you parents with small children will soon be sleeping past 5:30am now that the clocks have SPRANG FORWARD ONE HOUR! Most of us know now that daylight savings coincides with a push to change your smoke detector batteries but did you also know that you should clean … Read more
Buy Batteries Now!
The 2012/2013 Daylight Saving period is almost upon us with clocks due to move forward 1 hour on October 7th 2012 This is an early reminder to change your batteries when you change your clocks, so it’s a great idea to add batteries to your shopping list this week! We’ll remind you again … Read more
New Safety Store Under Construction
During our annual business conference in January 2012 we recognised that safety item retailing was not part of our core focus but had infact become a solid financial contributor to our business. Since our inception we have assisted our safety & training customers to source products direct from the manufacturers. This has afforded AFFA discounted … Read more
Anaphylaxsis – would you know what to do?
Allergies are becoming more and more commonplace in today’s society among both adults and children. Those who work with the public or in a one on one setting should consider undertaking anaphylaxsis training. Would you know what to do if someone in your care went into anaphylactic shock? For more information please click on … Read more
WHS, do we need training now?
Tony from NSW posted this question on our website recently, the answer was complex and long winded so we have reposted the question March 31, 2012 at 10:03 pm Dear sir / madam. I hope you can assist me in the following? our construction site plumbers (NSW) are required to use oxy / acetelene, therefore … Read more
3in1 Bodyguard SOS Rescue Keyrings
3in1 Bodyguard SOS Recue Keyrings are now available from the AFFA Store. Featuring 3 life saving devices to be used by you in an emergency or as a first responder at an accident site. Each keyring is available in a choice of four bright colours and has the following features; 1 – A sharp easy … Read more
Tailored training for Wine Industry, Fleurieu SA
Do you work in the wine industry in SA? Need Fire or First Aid training? Maxwell Wines of McLaren Vale are hosting a tailored CPR update, First Aid Training session and full Fire Training course (warden, extinguisher & evacuation) tailored to deal with the specifics of the wine industry this month and the courses are … Read more
Evacuation Diagrams
We have updated the information on our Evacuation Diagram page on our website. On December 10, 2010 Australian Standard 3745-2010 was updated an included changes to the legal requirements for Evacuation Diagrams, this included among other things: All diagrams must be titled Evacuation Diagram All diagrams must include a legend of symbols used All … Read more
