![]() ½ day manual handling or fire awareness (alternate years), 1½ day advanced first aid training, 1 day familiarization and basic rescues followed by 1.5 days complex rescues with scenario based exercises included all of the modules. This comprised of a crawl, walk, run philosophy. In collaboration with VHNZ we designed a 5 day refresher annual course. With this data, Meridian agreed to go over and above the standard GWO refresher time of two years. By means of a course evaluation by both Meridian and VHNZ, we received data from the trainers at VHNZ and a skill fade was quite apparent in both first aid and working at height advanced rescue. These problems range from limited access, weather, limited access to external medical assistance, limited rescue team members, height, restricted space, response time, limited coms, pain medication and working at height to name a few. Meridian has put a hefty focus on the uniqueness set of problems a wind farm and a wind turbine poses. VHNZ supported this from the start and maintained the journey Meridian has been on to ensure global best practice was being met and our request for targeted training was kept front of mind. Meridian adapted the GWO Global Wind Organisation training requirements 8 years ago by committing to anyone working in a wind turbine having had to complete as a minimum Working at Height, First Aid, Manual Handling and Fire awareness/extinguisher or the higher or equivalent standard. ![]() Quality targeted training has been identified as one of Meridians critical risk controls and VHNZ have always been onboard to ensure that they can deliver quality training that can really make difference. So the industry has been lucky to have had the opportunity to really target the training requirements by taken a broad risk based approach from global best practice. "And it's Verizon that profits off that.The wind energy industry is a relativity new in comparison to other parts of the energy business. "Newsmax has amplified and aired content about the Big Lie, mischaracterized the January 6th insurrection, and is continuing to fuel election disinformation, which is damaging our democracy," Getachew told Insider. Yosef Getachew, Media & Democracy program director at the watchdog group Common Cause, criticized that content-neutral approach, citing Newsmax's pattern of sharing false claims - not just from guests, but employees - about fraud in the 2020 election, which a judge recently concluded the network knew " were probably false" at the time they aired. In a statement earlier this month to The Daily Beast, a Verizon spokesperson said its negotiations with One America News Network had "focused on economics," attributing the failure to reach an agreement to the channel rejecting "fair terms." Verizon has insisted that its decision to sign a carrier agreement with a right-wing media organization has nothing to do with the views expressed on such channels. "The types of instances they cite about guests not being challenged or corrected during the course of an opinion program can be selected from virtually any broadcast opinion program on any network virtually every day," the statement read. In a statement to Insider, Newsmax said the NewsGuard report mischaracterized their coverage. "If you're watching Newsmax, you may come away with an entirely different feeling of what happened at the hearings, and what happened on January 6," NewsGuard's Jack Brewster told The Associated Press. In a report released earlier this month, NewsGuard, a company that monitors disinformation, said Newsmax had over the span of a month broadcast dozens of false claims about the January 6 insurrection and subsequent congressional hearings on the US Capitol Riot, including that former President Donald Trump had requested troops from the National Guard - a claim rebutted by his defense secretary. The agreement with Newsmax comes despite criticism that the channel frequently provides more than just a conservative slant. ![]() It often indicates a user profile.Ī representative for Verizon confirmed that a deal had been reached but did not offer further details. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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