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Every 3 years we update our learning for Emergency First aid at work. With so many crew on site on projects it is important we are able to help in an emergency.

Each time we attend the course there are updates to the ‘rules’ that have been set in the past and to keep abreast of the changes is key to being not only compliant but being useful.

This time you are alowed to have Asprin in the First Aid kit, luke warm water is best to use on scolds not cold water. And it was good to be reminded of Toxic Shock for example a rigger who might fall in his harness and be caught dangling for a while – how important it is to still go to A&E to get checked out.

In this heat wave we could all think of a different place to be than a classroom but if it helps save a life I am all for the short term discomfort.

This year the EpiPen has been added to the course instruction as well as the defibrillator, It’s not just a case of stabbing a patient in the leg, it is important to make a fist around the pen before administering incase you have the pen upside down – you don’t get an unwanted needle through your thumb! and you need to hold the pen in place for 10 seconds while the adrenalin is finding it’s way into the blood stream.

The live assessment’s of bandages for bleeds and the CPR continuous for 2 minutes with 30 chest compressions and 2 breaths had us all warmed up ! how to deal with choking another valuable learning.