The 92nd Annual General Meeting opened proceedings and saw the installation of Steve Hamm as International President for 2015-2016, taking over from outgoing International President Neil Gibbins. In his valedictory address Neil thanked head office staff, directors, branches, members and family and friends for the support he had received. The IFE has become a much broader organisation, he said, encompassing many parts of the fire sector. "The 'golden thread' is the need to share learning to improve outcomes." The route to achieving better outcomes -"making the world safer from fire, reducing risk to people, property and the environment, may be through digging deeper into the power of knowledge," Neil suggested. "What works to reduce the spread of fire? What works to make firefighting safer, more effective? What can make fire engineering more efficient? I see the IFE being the international safe keeper of the answers to 'what works'."
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