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Israel acts to streamline first aid delivery

A professional committee that will recommend ways of improving the supply of first aid, urgent pre-hospital care and medical evacuation services has been appointed by Israel’s Health Ministry. Currently, the country has an official first aid, rescue and blood supply organisation called Magen David Adom (MDA). The new committee has been charged with harmonising the […]

Canine first aid gaining traction

Canada’s North Vancouver now is promoting Dogsafe Canine First Aid, which teaches people with injured pets how to treat and stabilise them before taking them to a veterinarian. The program educates dog owners and dog professionals on what to do in any emergency involving a dog. Its first Dogsafe Canine First Aid instructor, Robyn Andexser […]

Better first aid training for fishermen

An innovative ‘train the trainers’ day has been held in Aberdeen, Scotland using the Sea Fish Industry Authority’s (Seafish’s) new First Aid at Sea course, now one of the four mandatory one-day courses that UK fishermen must complete. The newly devised training course has been given a fisherman’s input by Derek Cardno, safety officer for […]

Military bandage solution offered to industry

Businesses and consumers in the USA now are being offered access to QuikClot, a haemostatic bandage designed to stop bleeding that until recently was used mainly by the military to save soldiers’ lives on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. QuikClot is a mesh bag made of a porous fabric that contains tiny beads of […]

PRC in push to boost home first aid trainees

As part of a global push to encourage First Aiders ‘in the home’ as well as at work, The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) says it trained 78,200 participants for first aid, had 79,351 basic life support trainees and 553 people joined its accident prevention course last year. PRC chairman Richard Gordon said: “First aid is […]

Businesses warned to check all facilities

Businesses in remote and outback areas have been warned to check equipment in outhouses and sheds after a Nova Scotia, Canada wind farm operator was fined C$95,000 over the deaths of two people from carbon-monoxide poisoning. Rotor Mechanical Service was charged – and pled guilty – after the bodies of Kyle Elliott of Brentwood and […]

Disaster mine had no first aid kits in safety refuge

The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the explosion at the Pike River mine in New Zealand that killed 29 miners in November last year has been told there was no first aid kit, telephone, extra self-rescuers or air valves at the fresh air bases where the miners should have been able to take refuge. A […]

Electronic prescribing ‘cuts errors’

The UK’s Chesterfield Royal Hospital now is one of only a handful to introduce electronic prescribing across the site. Electronic prescribing is, according to a General Medical Council (GMC) report, “12 per cent less likely to be associated with a prescribing error than hand written prescriptions”. A spokesman said: “Electronic prescribing systems improve the legibility […]

USA 2010 workplace fatalities top 4500

The case for first aid training is borne out by recently-released USA Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data that show workplace fatalities for 2010 reached 4,547. Some 1,766 were transportation related, 808 were from assaults, 732 from being struck by an object, 635 from falls, 409 from toxic exposures and 187 from fires and explosions. […]

‘Use common sense’ to limit workplace risks

While it’s not possible to eliminate workplace injuries completely, there are some common-sense suggestions that can help minimise the number of workplace accidents and incidents, managed training providers say. These include: Keep stairways, walkways and hallways clear of clutter. Don’t carry anything higher than eye level to ensure you can always see where you are […]

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