Thanks Keith for sharing the radio coms with us. What Church Safety teams need to learn from this is that comms need to be calm and concise. Identify who you are speaking to and from who messages are being directed. Also confirmation of directions/instructions, so that we all know what each other is doing.
While I was the Safety Team Director I handed radios to our team which consisted of 3 members including myself. I would do a radio check with each member. We all knew how important that was. I also would give a radio the the children's ministry, but I got resistance from them because they thought radio checks were non-sense, "nothing will happen here". The radio checks became a chore to them and they didn't give it the importance the Safety Team would have hoped.
Part of my reasoning in having members do radio checks was to get them familiar with the radios and how to talk on the radio so that in an emergency it wouldn't be so foreign to them.
Well I didn't get the support from our church leaders in many things not just this item. So I reigned from my position as Security Director.
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Thanks Keith for sharing the radio coms with us. What Church Safety teams need to learn from this is that comms need to be calm and concise. Identify who you are speaking to and from who messages are being directed. Also confirmation of directions/instructions, so that we all know what each other is doing.
While I was the Safety Team Director I handed radios to our team which consisted of 3 members including myself. I would do a radio check with each member. We all knew how important that was. I also would give a radio the the children's ministry, but I got resistance from them because they thought radio checks were non-sense, "nothing will happen here". The radio checks became a chore to them and they didn't give it the importance the Safety Team would have hoped.
Part of my reasoning in having members do radio checks was to get them familiar with the radios and how to talk on the radio so that in an emergency it wouldn't be so foreign to them.
Well I didn't get the support from our church leaders in many things not just this item. So I reigned from my position as Security Director.
Burt yes comms are important.