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APEX MARqUEE PROGRAM – As mentioned earlier in the article, Greg Ward is available to assist us in getting this going again. We are re-igniting our connections and relations with BIONZ (Building Officials Institute of NZ) and FENZ (Fire and Emergency NZ). We will be setting a plan for on-boarding members into the program and carrying out audits into the new year. The main focus though is getting the temporary structure building consent exemption for accredited installers. This is the golden egg of the program. We will also be getting marquee erection training going again after we stopped them through COVID and didn’t give planning of them much thought coming out. CONFERENCE 2021 – by the time this magazine hits your hands, it will be well publicised that we have opened the registrations for 2021 conference. I know it sounds like so far away, but it will come round quick- we have run out of November already! Have we put some work into this conference or what! It’s our biggest budget ever and we are working on making sure it’s got the wow factor. Admittedly, it has got a lot more expensive to hold these events now but we have putting a huge amount off effort in to give a great event for the same price as the cancelled 2020 conference and 2019 one for that matter. Please sign up early, so we have good indication of attendees. We only want a 10% deposit to get your skin in the game (fully refundable if we can’t hold the conference), with the balance payable either next April or in portions, see our payment plans on the Registration page for more details. We opened the conference to our Exhibitors and Sponsors a couple of weeks ago and the response has been great. Keep an eye on the Sponsors and the Trade show pages for the latest of who will be there. We are very pleased to have the continued support of Youngman Richardson & Co as Platinum sponsor along with Gold Sponsors Baytex and Synergy Positioning Systems. Our Hire Excellence Awards night is getting a bit of a make over with plans being put together now on the award system and judging. If you think you could be a judge, make contact with me and I will consider it. SILVERCARD™ TRAINING – There is a small article about this in the magazine (I haven’t put the page number in here as through the draft review process, page numbers change. You can find it I’m sure). Get in on having your staff trained using the Silvercard EWP Trainers. They are the best trainers in the country. Also, they have just been given scope to provide training on Unit Standard 23229- Use a Safety Harness for Personal fall protection when working at height. That’s 7 different unit standards they can now offer through Silvercard™ Competent Operator training. SILVERCARD™ wEBSITE – We have given this a bit of a freshen up, with new branding and a new “find a trainer page”. Take a look, find a trainer, and let us know how you find it. HIANZ wEBSITE CHANGES - The Store locator (find a trainer) setup on the Silvercard website is something we are going to implement onto the HIANZ website. This is to show the general public where they can find a HIANZ member closest to them. If you haven’t updated all your details to us lately, you might miss out, so get it in. THE FORKLIFT ASSOCIATION is in heavy talks now with Worksafe and Compentenz about being more involved in Forklift training. The desire is to get Forklift training at a consistent, high level across the country. Read the NZFIA news article for more on this. MEMBER ROAD TRIP – In the last month, I have made an effort to get out of the office and get out to meet up with a few members across the country. Now, just a quick note before I go further – if I say I have been to a town and I didn’t come see you, it’s nothing against you, I can only fit in what I can when I can and a lot of times, my member catch up’s are around other pre planned meetings. Please don’t get upset, I will get to you one day. Right, that said, In the last month, I have got to some members in Christchurch, Nelson, Blenheim, Wellington, Hutt Valley and Auckland. I have great aspirations of getting around as many as possible in the few months after new year so watch out for me! So far, most memorable visit was to a member who made me get out of bed at 5.45am to go mountain biking. Anyone who is first to name this member (not including the member) to me, gets a prize. FYI, I have also given out a prize to one member that was proudly advertising their membership with us. They had their current year membership sticker on the front door and had their certificate displayed behind the counter. Will you be next? PREVIOUS ISSUES of the Hire and Rental Magazine – We have a HIANZ dedicated web based library for all our Hire and Rental Magazines that I could find. It’s been great to read through the different articles over the years and pick up on stalwarts, regular contributors and supporters of the magazine. Get onto the site (if you aren’t already on it reading this) and have a look. www.issuu.com search for HIANZ. We sent out a Log Splitter incident notification email on Friday the 20th November. Sing out if you didn’t get it. We covered off the incident and precautions Hire Companies should take. In the magazine is the article on ESDS (Equipment Safety Data sheets), read it, sign up and use them!! END OF yEAR shut down – This has come around very quickly in the end. It seemed to take forever to get through this year but since October, it has really raced away for me. As this goes to print and distributed, we will be in December, so it is timely I talk about our office shut down. From Friday night, the 18th December, through to Tuesday the 5th January 2021, we will be closed. From Tuesday the 5th, Kylene will be on deck to send out orders and assist where needed. I will follow back the next week. So, on that very short note…. I bid you well for the December rush, celebratory period and look forward to seeing you real soon in the new year. Thanks very much for your support and help to date, it’s very much appreciated. Can I also please take this last moment to thank ever so much to Kylene in the office who has made my life so much easier with her ability to handle so much. She is the true worker out of us both and does an amazing job. Thanks aye! ■
