Amend Green Guide for comprehensive steward training and instruction on emergencies.
Popplewell Inquiry · Popplewell Inquiry — Final Report · Issued 16 January 1986
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
The Green Guide should be amended to contain a specific provision, in relation to stewards, (i) that they should be trained and instructed to deal with any emergency relating to fire or evacuation (see also Recommendations 7 and 10); (ii) that they should be given written instructions about the action to be taken in cases of emergency; (iii) that they should receive practical instruction and training appropriate to their responsibility; (iv) that no one should be employed as a steward unless they have been so instructed and trained; and (v) that they should be adequate in number, physically and mentally capable of performing their duties, effectively deployed, effectively supervised and readily identifiable.
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