Page 2628 - Week 07 - Thursday, 3 August 2017

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From 2011, staff accessed the Responding to Critical Situations training, which includes Use of Force training, as part of Induction training to the Centre. This training is also accessed by staff requiring refresher training. Induction training was scheduled on:

31 Jan 2011

4 April 2011

23 Jan 2012

10 Sept 2012

3 Jun 2013

28 Oct 2013

16 Oct 2014

18 Apr 2016

Maintenance sessions were also scheduled as outlined in response to question 2.

Canberra Hospital—electrical systems

Ms Fitzharris (in reply to a question and supplementary questions by Ms Lee and Mrs Dunne on Wednesday, 10 May 2017):

1. Yes.

2. Operations at Canberra Hospital were disrupted by electrical faults on two occasions between September 2015 and April 2017, on 9 September 2015 and 5 April 2017.

3. In November 2012 a circuit breaker overheated within the Building 2 Main Switchboard. The circuit breaker was replaced, using an available spare circuit breaker without adverse disruption to hospital services.

Canberra Hospital—electrical systems

Ms Fitzharris (in reply to a question and supplementary questions by Mr Coe and Mrs Dunne on Wednesday, 10 May 2017):

1. Following an incident with the Building 2 electrical main switchboard in September 2015, an inspection report identified issues with the Building 2 and Building 12 main electrical switchboards. A decision to replace the Building 2 and Building 12 electrical main switchboard facilities was formalised in the 2016/17 Budget Appropriation Upgrading and Maintaining ACT Health Assets, following consideration of facility condition assessments commissioned in the last quarter of 2015, to inform business case development.

2. Visual inspections of the main switchboards are carried out regularly by Facilities Management staff and any repairs that are required are performed at that time. In March 2016, a contractor was engaged to conduct thermal scans and inspections on the main electrical switchboard every three weeks. Additionally, a contractor was


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