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The CFAA Fire Alarm Technician’s Podcast episodes
- Ep 29 - ISO 17024 Certification for Technicians?This week, we talk to Suzanne Alfano (Executive Director of the CFAA) Stephen Ames (past President and currently working on the ISO certification project for the CFAA) about the contemplated certification to ISO standard 17024. We discuss the process and where we are so far in this journey.
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25 min - Ep 28 - Above And Beyond Awards Pt 2
Welcome to 2025!
Here is our first episode of the year and we continue with interviews with the Above and Beyond Award Winners.
Tony Hodder, Victoria Boltsis and Aliaksandr Shamshur share some of their experiences in fire alarm and why they think they were awarded this prize.
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25 min - Ep 27 - End Of Year Roundup
On this Year-End episode, I have asked a few of my past guests and also Suzanne Alfano, Executive Director fo the CFAA and Jordan Klemick, Current President of the CFAA, to give us some year end summary of what we are doing at the executive committee level and what we have planned in 2025.
I was also able to bring on Cathy and Mark, who have been on the podcast in the past and have rolls within chapters of the CFAA.
I wish you all a Happy New Year and we will see you on the road somewhere in Canada or you wil continue to hear us on the podcast.
Thanks for listening this year and for continunin to spread the word on the podcast to all of your fellow fire alarm technicians, engineers, managers and AHJ's.
See you in 2025 with season 2 of the CFAA Fire Alarm Technician's Podcast!
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29 min - Ep 26 - Above And Beyond Awards Part 1This is the first of a multi-part series where we wil feature an interview with each of the award winners of our technician's committee Above and Beyond Awards. Trevor Ritchie (Drapeau Fire) was the winner for the Eastern Chapter of Ontario and Woody Gradin (Troy Life and Fire Safety) won for the Saskatchewan chapter. They give us their insights on what fires them up (pun intended...) about the industry and their job and what makes them go "Above and Beyond"!
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27 min - Ep 25 - Behind The Curtain of the CFAA Executive Board and Committees Pt 2Part 2 of the podcast on a behind the scenes of the CFAA board of directors and committees. This episode focuses on the technicians and how you as a tech can get involved, what the levels of membership in the CFAA look like, and other topics of interest to our technician members.
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18 min - Ep 24 - Behind the Curtain of the CFAA Executive Board and Committees Pt 1This week, we take a look 'behind the curtain of the CFAA Boards and Committees and see how the sausage is made! We will dive into each of the committees and see how they all work together to make the engine run for the CFAA.
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22 min - Ep 23 - AI tools being used in Fire AlarmThis week's episode is with Pery Zerbinos and we discuss some of the best use cases for AI (currently) and how it is shaping our future in fire alarm reporting and getting our work done. This podcast may be at the highest risk of being obsolete in a year! We will see...
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22 min - Ep 22 - Deficiencies in S536-2019 and S537 2019 (Part 2)
This week is a long-ish episode and is more of a discussion with Mark and Tom on what we have been discovering as we have started working wiht the new standards. We focus on the topic of deficiencies and how some parts are open to some interpretation.
Would you like to come on the podcast? Send me a line at [email protected]
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36 min - Ep 21 - The past, present and future of CFAA EducationThis week's episode is with Randy Panesar from Durham College and we go over where we were, where we are, and where we are going in education for fire alarm systems in Canada.
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31 min - Ep 20 - Deficiencies in the new ULC standards' updates
On this episode, Mark and I discuss some of the definitions and parameters around 'what is a deficiency?'
We will have more episodes to come on this very important subject, as this affects all of your work as a fire alarm technician and how you report and comment on things that 'aren't right'.
Thanks again Mark for joining!
20 episodes down!
If you would like to join me on the podcast, send an email to [email protected]
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About The CFAA Fire Alarm Technician’s Podcast
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Podcast for Canadian Fire Alarm Technicians and other people interested in the fire alarm industry in Canada.
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