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Brunt and Kendall Act (Ensuring Safe Firefighter and Trainee Rescue Training), 2018
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The Brunt and Kendall Act (Ensuring Safe Firefighter and Trainee Rescue Training), 2018, enhances safety in firefighter rescue training by establishing minimum safety standards, certification processes, and licensing for private providers.
This bill, known as the Brunt and Kendall Act (Ensuring Safe Firefighter and Trainee Rescue Training), 2018, amends the Fire Protection and Prevention Act, 1997, and the Private Career Colleges Act, 2005. It aims to establish safety standards and regulations for rescue and emergency services training for firefighters and firefighter trainees. Key changes include the Fire Marshal developing minimum safety standards, certifying courses that meet these standards, and licensing private providers of such training. The bill also introduces requirements for contracts, reporting of injuries or deaths during training, and outlines prohibitions against offering uncertified or unsafe courses.
- Establishes new rules for rescue and emergency services training for firefighters and firefighter trainees.
- Requires the Fire Marshal to develop and publish minimum safety standards for these training courses.
- Provides for the certification of rescue training courses that meet the minimum safety standards.
- Establishes a licensing system for private providers offering rescue training courses.
- Requires that rescue training courses offered by private providers be certified by the Fire Marshal.
- Mandates that firefighters and firefighter trainees sign an acknowledgement of roles and responsibilities before training exercises.
- Requires the reporting of deaths and injuries that occur during rescue training courses.
- Prohibits offering rescue training courses that do not meet minimum safety standards or are not certified.
- Prohibits private providers from offering training without a license.
- Gives inspectors the power to order the immediate cessation of unsafe or uncertified rescue training courses.
- Requires fire chiefs to ensure that rescue training courses provided within their departments meet the new requirements.
- Amends existing laws to align with these new training regulations.
- Firefighters
- Firefighter trainees
- Fire departments
- Fire chiefs
- The Office of the Fire Marshal
- Private providers offering rescue training courses
- Private career colleges offering rescue training courses
- Inspectors
- Fire chiefs have a duty to ensure rescue training courses within their departments comply with new requirements.
- Fire Marshal must develop and maintain minimum safety standards and publish them.
- Private providers must be licensed and enter into written contracts for training.
- Individuals participating in training must sign acknowledgements of roles and responsibilities.
- Training providers must report deaths and injuries.
- Private career colleges cannot offer rescue training unless certified.
- The Act comes into force on the earlier of a day named by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor or the first anniversary of receiving Royal Assent.
- Prescribed fees may be payable for licensing private providers.
- Private providers may need to issue written records of fees paid and refunds.
- Contravention of prohibitions in Part III.1 of the Fire Protection and Prevention Act, 1997, constitutes an offence.
- Failure to comply with an order to cease a rescue training course can result in penalties.
- Inspectors can order the immediate cessation of rescue training courses that are not certified, unsafe, or offered by unlicensed providers.
- The exact date the Act comes into force is dependent on proclamation by the Lieutenant Governor.
- Specific details regarding prescribed qualifications, fees, conditions for licenses, and regulatory requirements are not fully detailed in the provided text and may be set out in regulations.
- The text does not specify the penalties for offences related to contraventions or failure to comply with orders, beyond stating that penalties will be set out.
Introduces a new Part III.1 that sets out definitions, minimum safety standards, certification processes for rescue training courses, licensing for private providers, and reporting requirements for deaths and injuries. It also amends existing sections related to inspections, orders, and regulation-making authorities to support these new provisions. Adds definitions for 'firefighter trainee' and 'rescue training course'.
Source: Part III.1 (Sections 11.1-11.9), Section 1 (1), Section 6 (5.1), Section 9 (2), Section 19 (2), Section 20 (1), Section 21 (1), Section 21 (4), Section 23, Section 24 (1), Section 24 (4), Section 25 (1), Section 25 (3), Section 26 (1), Section 30 (2), Section 31 (1)(a), Section 78 (1)
Ensures that rescue training courses offered by private career colleges must be certified under Part III.1 of the Fire Protection and Prevention Act, 1997. It also specifies that the Superintendent shall revoke a college's approval to offer such a course if it ceases to be certified.
Source: Section 16, Section 17, Section 18, Section 19
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