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Schools
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Appointed First Aider – Your Duties
In summary as an appointed first aider your main duties fall into the following: To give immediate help to casualties with common injuries or illnesses and those arising from specific hazards at school; Where necessary to ensure that an ambulance or other professional medical help is called. read more…
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Bespoke Kits
We are continually working with school nurses to ensure that our offering is exactly what is required and that is why we welcome feedback from all schools as to their specific requirements. We are not dictating what should or should not be in a first aid kit, we are taking your advice and creating kits based on your years of experience and that is why we are please to offer our bespoke service. Whether it’s a History trip or rugby tour abroad you may have specific... read more…
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First Aid – What Do Schools Need to Do?
The Health and Safety First Aid Legislation 1981 set out what an employer has to do and this in summary is to provide adequate and appropriate equipment, facilities and qualified first aid personnel. The regulations do not oblige employers to provide first aid for anyone other than their own staff, but employers do have health and safety responsibilities towards non employees. The Health and Safety Commission guidance recommends that organisations such as schools, which provide... read more…
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Risk Assessment –What, How?
Schools should include staff, pupils and visitors when carrying out the risk assessments for first aid requirements. County and controlled schools should check their LEAs procedures, however the following points should be considered: What Size is the school and is it split sites and levels? Location of the School Are there any specific hazards or risks on site? Specific needs Accident statistics What Size is the school and is it... read more…
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So what is the minimum first aid provision?
There are so many first aid kits in the market place it is difficult to know which kit is best suited for the school environment, and more often than not half of the kit will be of use whilst the rest of the content will not. As guidance the HSE and DFEE recommend that where there is no specific risk identified a minimum provision of first aid items would be as follows: Minimum Recommendation for First Aid Kit where no risk is identified: First... read more…
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What is an Appointed Person?
An appointed person is someone who will carry out the following duties: Take charge when someone is injured or becomes ill; Looks after the first aid equipment, including the re-stocking of first aid consumables and monitoring of expiry dates; Ensures that an ambulance or other professional medical help is summoned when appropriate. It is not always that case that an appointed person is automatically a first aider, and they should not give... read more…
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Whose Responsibility is First Aid in Schools?
Health and Safety Legislation places duties on employers for the health and safety of their employees and anyone else that may be on the premises. In schools this includes responsibilities for the head teacher, teachers, non-teaching staff, pupils and visitors (including contractors). Who the employer is depends on the type of school, for example: The LEA is the employer in county, controlled and special agreements schools and in pupil referral units; The governing... read more…
