There are now words in the Coastguard language that can not be used anymore and its very difficult to get out of the habit of using them to describe what we are doing.
Thankfully our standing in Sector Manager has listened to our proposals for July and August and agreed that we can resume some of our activities.
PATROLS are out........Accident Prevention (voluntary) can be done as long as they are meeting the ministerial targets set by the Government, these include things like Tombstoning, beach incidents etc, but remember its not a patrol its Accident Prevention which for reporting isn't easy to use so I think we are going to use APT, or the Accident Prevention Team.
However it doesn't stop there as there is training and the care of the equipment which needs doing and this can be done by the APT.
No public relations or paid Accident Prevention can be done, again this has to voluntary and targetted against the ministerial targets......(hope you are following this?)
So for the team, no real changes at the weekends, no real change for the on call IRT's or BURT's for the Station Officer, more paperwork and the need to be very creative with the APT forms!
We are all doing our bit to cut costs, this includes turning off electrical items and cutting mileage down, even using the Coastguard car we have at the moment rather than the truck. Walk is another new word that some team members will be learning over the next few weeks!
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