First Aid/Fire Warden Cover

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Dear Ayrshire College,

Under the terms of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, I am writing to formally request the following information.

1. The date that UNISON formally withdrew first aid & fire warden cover as part of their recent industrial action campaign?
2. What measures your college implemented to cover any first aid or fire emergency cover to ensure your college is compliant with health & safety legislation.
3. Please advise whether you outsourced the services of a third party to provide this cover?
4. Please advise if your college provided emergency first aid & fire warden training to members of your staff that did not/are not participating in the withdrawal of first aid and fire warden training?
5. Please advise the cost to your college for securing first aid and fire warden training - please break this down and advise any third party consultancy fee's and/or the equivalent cost for providing in house training.
6. Please advise how many members of staff received emergency first aid & fire warden training to cover for this industrial action measure?
7. Please also provide the full cost of the time allocated to each individual who participated in any form of training, giving. total equivalent salary cost?
8. Please advise how many first aid incidents have occurred since UNISON withdrew this cover?
9. Please advise if there was any first aid incident where no qualified first aider was available to attend.
10. Please advise how many fire alarm incidents have occurred since UNISON withdrew this cover - additionally please advise how many fire wardens were on hand at each incident per campus, and per incident?
11. Please advise the total cash equivalent cost of time loss for any fire alarm incidents?
12. Please advise if there was a qualified fire Marshall to greet the Fire Service on each occasion?

Please provide details in a format suitable to yourselves.

I understand that you are required to respond to my request within the 20 working days after you receive this letter.
I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request.

Yours faithfully,

Aaron Watters

Freedom OfInformation, Ayrshire College

Dear Mr Watters

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.

You will receive a response from the College within 20 working days.

Regards

Eleanor O’nions
Office Manager – Executive Assistant to the Principal
Ayrshire College
Kilmarnock Campus
18-20 Hill Street
Kilmarnock
KA1 3HY

Tel: 01563 495023
Ext: 2301
Email: [email address]

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June Northcote, Ayrshire College

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Dear Mr Watters

 

Please see the attached letter of response from Ayrshire College,
containing a fee notification in relation to your Freedom of Information
request received 8 November 2016 under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002.

 

Kind regards

 

June

 

June Northcote

Executive Assistant to the Vice Principal and Director

Human Resources and Organisational Wellbeing

Ayrshire College

Ayr Campus

 

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Direct Tel:  01563 495040

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Dear Ayrshire College,

I note with interest your reply to my original FOI request dated 8 November 2016 whereby you are projecting staff costs for locating, retrieving and providing requested information to be £150 (10 hours@£15 per hour) and you are therefore requesting a Fee payment of £5 (£150 minus first £100 leaving a balance of £50, of which you are requesting that I pay 10%). I would like to point out that I feel your projected costs are excessive given the fact that the information being requested relates to the last three months of this financial year for which the information should be readily available, assuming the College has an adequate Records Management System in place (in accordance with Code of Good Governance). It will be my intention to refer the above to ICO under point 30 of FOISA Guidance (Fees Notices and Timescales) “Where a requester is unhappy with a fees notice and refers the matter to the Commissioner, the Commissioner will investigate whether the fees notice was accurate. The authority must therefore be able to justify the fee to the Commissioner” and I ask that Ayrshire College duly take note.

Notwithstanding the above, I have today (5 December 2016) replied enclosing a £5 postal order to cover the fees requested and would like to draw your attention to point 29 of FOISA Guidance (Fees Notices and Timescales) – “Once a fees notice has been issued, the clock stops when it comes to calculating the 20 working days to respond to a request. The close starts again on the day the fees notice has been paid. So, if a public authority gives a requester a fees notice on day 15, the public authority will only have five more working days to provide the information once the fees notice has been paid”. As I have been issued with a fees notice on 2 December 2016 (day 17), then Ayrshire College will only have a further 3 working days to provide the requested information.

I await your response and look forward to receiving information requested by Friday 9 December 2016.

Yours faithfully,

Aaron Watters

Dear Ayrshire College,

I should also point out that Glasgow Kelvin College were able to provide this information without charging a fee.

Yours faithfully,

Aaron Watters

Dear June Northcote,

Can you please advise why you have not yet provided the information requested? Fees have been paid and request should have been fulfilled by Friday 9 December.

Yours sincerely,

Aaron Watters

June Northcote, Ayrshire College

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Dear Mr Watters

 

Please see the attached response from Ayrshire College, to your Freedom of
Information request of 8 November 2016 and subsequent communications,
submitted under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. 

 

Yours sincerely

 

June

 

June Northcote

Executive Assistant to the Vice Principal and Director

Human Resources and Organisational Wellbeing

Ayrshire College

Ayr Campus

 

Ext:  2309

Direct Tel:  01563 495040

Email:    [1][email address]

 

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Dear June Northcote,

Thank you for your response.

Regarding your reply to question 6; can you expand on the 20 members trained please - can you provide the roles of the staff trained including Management Titles (personal information not required).

Question 8; can you please provide the logs of the 63 reports with personal info redacted?

Yours sincerely,

Aaron Watters

June Northcote, Ayrshire College

Dear Mr Watters

Thank you for your Freedom of Information Request received 18 December 2015, submitted under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

The College will respond to your request within 20 working days. However, please note that the timeline will be extended considerably due to closure of the College during the festive period.

Yours sincerely

June Northcote
Executive Assistant to the Vice Principal and Director
Human Resources and Organisational Wellbeing
Ayrshire College
Ayr Campus

Ext: 2309
Direct Tel: 01563 495040
Email: [email address]
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Ayrshire College cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of this message as it has been transmitted over a public network. The College reserves the right to monitor all incoming and outgoing E-Mail traffic. Although the College has taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in E-Mails, the College cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the use of the E-Mail or attachments.
Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of any organisation or employer. Any opinions presented in E-Mails are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ayrshire College.

Registered Charity No SC 021177.

Allyson Sharp, Ayrshire College

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Dear Mr Watters

 

Please see the attached letter of response, to your Freedom of Information
request of 18 December 2016, submitted under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002. 

 

Yours sincerely

 

Allyson

 

 

 

Allyson Sharp

Information and Customer Relations Advisor

External Tel: 01563 495 066

Internal Ext: 8066

 

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precautions to ensure no viruses are present in E-Mails, the College
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College.

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