Hi Brendon,
We have had a couple of incidents on site where dust has set off the emergency alarm.
1. using a leaf blower to blow out a long hallway in our amenities building.
2. Painter's hand sanding a wall in the same area
Neither of these events involved excessive amounts of dust.

We have been advised that we temporarily impair up to four (by capping off, you can get proper covers) detectors before needing to put in place an official impairment with FENZ/Insurance to complete these works. Obviously, procedures must be in place and followed.
The install or managing company can also impair the required detectors for you. But I would advise you look into the impairment notice criteria (the company may be able to help you there).

Hope this helps.

Hi All,
Sorry for the late response. The feedback here has been extremely helpful.
KeithH you have hit the nail on the head where it comes to training/educating adults. A knowledge dump is not going to get through. I know those glazed looks well!

You have all given great ideas/info and based on this I have decided to create an inhouse training pack as an extension to our site induction to cover more health and safety basics and critical risk. .... And getting myself on a train the trainer course.

Thanks again.
Shayla McCormick

HI Michelle,
Thanks for reaching out. This is exactly what I was looking for.
I will get in contact tomorrow and see if we can set up a meeting to discuss our needs.

I look forward to talking to you soon.

Regards
Shayla

Thanks Jason.
We did explore this option but the time frame and level of H&S knowledge required unfortunately means this option is not a viable one.

Regards
Shayla