Guides, checklists and advice to help you to manage physical and mental health in your workplace, including risk, staffing, equipment, legal issues etc.
When you learn first aid, you hope that you’ll never have to use your skills in an emergency. Ok, so you’ll expect to have to use the odd plaster. Or perhaps you’ll send someone to hospital to get a possible broken arm checked out. But hopefully you’ll never have to deal with a something as serious …
We all rely on the medical professionals from our fantastic National Health Service to look after us when we get injured or ill. Whether it’s GPs and Practice Nurses at our local surgery, or paramedics, consultants, nurses and surgeons in our hospitals. But what happens when they’re not around? What happens in the time between an …
Does your school or the one attended by your kids have a clear policy on the reapplication of sun cream during school hours? Is it important that it does? This article discusses the practical and policy implications of using sun cream in schools. Take a look and make sure that your school gets it right. … …
For a variety of reasons, having first aiders in the workplace is crucial. Not least because it’s a legal requirement to have minimum first aid provision in any workplace at all times. So unless your staff work 24/7/365 days of the year, you are likely to need at least 2 or 3 first aiders. So …
It was reported by the BBC earlier this week that rail staff at First Capital Connect (St Albans) failed to render first aid assistance to a passenger other than allowing another passenger to call for an ambulance. Fortunately, a fellow passenger did step up to assist, but it does raise a number of questions about the responsibility of …
