5 key Skills for Life Saving First Aid

First Aid, basically is the immediate and temporary care given to a person in case of some injury or accident. It is usually performed by a non expert person to a sick or injured person until some permanent help arrive.

The basic first aid can be divided into two different medical situations i.e. Emergency and non emergency situation. These two conditions needs different methods of first aid.
The emergency First aid includes severe bleeding control, CPR, life support, workplace first aid, Heart attack, rescue breathing etc. that needs an immediate response to save the life of victim and needs further advanced medical treatment. Rather, Non emergency first aid includes child birth, muscle pain, minor bleeding cure, abrasions etc that may or may not pray for advanced medical care after having the initial first aid.

To perform a first aid, a Person may require some key skills that are:

• Calm and Confident

Must not panic during such situation. Must be confident to control victim and make it comfortable with the condition.

• Quick and Responsive

Must be able to observe the situations and response quickly and must know what to do next. Should carefully know the facts to handle the emergency situations, calm down the victim and clean up the environment around.

• Decision Making

Must know the further steps of his treatments. Should not daunt with the little failures and immediately decide the best treatments for the worst conditions.

• Resourceful and Intelligent

Must calculate the complete scene to make use of available resources, materials and bystanders that may help to control the whole situation and secure victim's confidence.

• Easy Communicator

Must be confident to easily elaborate the task to bystanders to make them effectively participate. Must keep a two way communication with the victim to make it alive and conscious till the situation is not under control.

Having such qualities, one can become a very good first aid provider. He/She can easily undergo first aid training and can save a number of lives.

If you need any information about Canada first aid training, you can contact Devin Jollimore who is a health and safety professional in Canada.

ENFORM Certified H2S Awareness Training

Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) gas is produced by anaerobic bacterial decomposition of organic matter normally found near volcanic regions, hot springs, petroleum refineries, paper mills, workplaces and several other places located in hot areas.

H2S is very toxic in nature and smells like rotten eggs. It’s heavier than air, corrosive, inflammable and explosive in nature. Minor concentration of H2S does not affect anybody rather than a foul smell. But, if its concentration exceeds than 100ppm or 200 ppm, its odour become undetectable to humans and it influence very badly starting from irritation, difficulty in breathing and breakdown to death.

In an industrial environment, employees and supervisors are prearranged gas detecting monitors to constantly measure the concentration of H2S in the air while exposed to some place having any level of Risk of H2S gas.

As well, the supervisors are provided proper H2S Alive training to ensure hundred percent safety of all personnel and work machines present in such situation. Mission safety services is a health and safety professional company providing an Enform certified H2S Alive training and certification intended for anyone working in Edmonton or Alberta areas.

The six hours H2S Alive training session teach workforces to easily detect H2S and monitor, identify hazard conditions, initial response strategies, rescue techniques, proper use of Supplied air breathing apparatus and many other supplementary techniques of survival.

For training specifics, please call in & talk with our professionals at 1.780.449.2700

A Guide for Better Fall Protection

Fall are the most leading cause of hazards and major injuries at work places. Every Year, more than 200,000 people are injured and more than 11,000 people die by falls. This all happens due to lack of training and equipment among workers. As workers need to study fall protection guide and learn utilizing a fall harness for easily control work-site falls.

What is Fall Protection?

Fall Protection comes under the various equipment and safety procedures followed by a person to prevent fall hazards. More specifically, it includes the different methods prearranged for a construction site employee who could loose his/ her balance on heights, in order to eliminate hazard.

A Fall protection procedure is a step by step approach towards fall protection that covers all important guidelines needed to be considered that might help avoid such hazards.

Following are some important steps:

• Determine Safety Level of Fall Hazard Surfaces
• Elimination of Fall Hazards
• Prevention of falls by improving the workplace installing guardrails etc.
• Cross check or pre-inspection of fall harness
• Appropriate use of Fall Protection systems or equipment.

Types of Fall Protection System:

A fall protection system is an arrangement pre-designed to prevent injuries from falls. Previously, people used ropes and various knots to safely work against the gravity forces. But today, There have designed a variety of systems providing fall protection that are dispensed into two parts:

1.  Passive Fall Protection
2.  Active Fall Protection

Passive Fall Protection:

Passive Fall protection system is a non-dynamic/ stationary arrangement that does not move, adapt, or change when in or out of use. While using, there remains no need of active fall protection systems or equipment. These include:

Guard Rails | Nets | Covers | Aerial lifts | handrails | rooftop railing | temporary flooring etc.

Active Fall Protection:

Unlike passive fall protection, these systems are dynamic in nature and require the use of harness, equipment as well as worker's participation. These systems are basically designed to arrest while fall is in progress not to prevent falls.

These are very important when there is absence of passive fall protection system (guard rails, covers etc) and there's a need to prevent slam contact of worker and the lower levels of work-site. The Active fall protection equipment include:

Anchor Points | Full Body Harness | Lifelines | Safety Belts | Static Lines | Swing Falls etc.

OSSA Fall Protection Training and Certification:

In North America, Fall protection safety training and certification is compulsory to get a job in any work-site thus to reduce accidents, costs and prevent injuries from falls as by CSA(Canadian Standards Association) in Canada. 

This results reduction of hazards rate that also raises productivity of Canadian work places.

 

 

According to OSSA regulations, the eight hours fall protection training must deliver the following stuff:

•  Review of Legislation Compliant with OSSA Standards
•  Creation of Virtue Fall Protection Plan
•  Fall Hazard Identification
•  Fall elimination, Prevention and Control
•  Identifying the types of Anchor points and their Proper Set-Up
•  Select and Proper use of Fall Harness
•  Cross check and pre-inspections of Equipment
•  Fall Protection Monitoring

For further information about fall protection training or equipment, Devin Jollimore is HSE manager and training coordinator at Mission Safety Services in Red Deer, Edmonton. He can be contacted at 1.780.449.2700 or djollimore@missionsafety.com.

Do I have to take this course??

Erin Henderson

I have been asked this quite a few times lately so let’s get one things straight – there is a reason you take safety courses and a reason you recertify them every three years. You are not the exception.

Training is a great job. We get to work with people from a variety of different fields and spend our days in the classroom explaining something we’re passionate about. My training career started with first aid. I was trained and experienced in paramedics, but my school schedule didn’t allow me hours that emergency medicine could work within so teaching became my safe haven for output of ideas and skills. I do believe I’ve saved lives through all the people I certify. 

But every class I teach (especially with recertification) I get the same question. ‘Why do I need to do this class… again?’ And the answer is always the same, ‘to save a life.’ 

This is asked in every class – fall protection to fire watch. So many of our students come in wishing the class would be as short as possible or even ask to challenge the exam. 

But that’s not the point. Maybe you would know enough for a written test, maybe. But there are other factors that play a role in your training and it’s about time you them seriously.

Information change: Every few years there are changes made to the legislation which effects your training. Occupational Health and Safety is still a very young field and the kinks are still being worked out. It is also an industry driven field which means we are constantly amalgamating information from work sites in Alberta – YOUR worksites to make safer policies. The Red Cross changes every 5 years based on emerging research and every year we see more improvements.

Information loss: How much do you remember from high school? I am willing to bet there are some small concepts that haven’t been used in a while that would be hard to find. Your brain is miraculous, but not perfect. It lets unused information slide out and makes alterations to other bits of knowledge. Your training is here at missionsafety.com to provide you with the initial knowledge, but also to restate what you need to know every three years to keep it all fresh and available when needed.

Common sense: Let me tell you, common sense is surprisingly uncommon. Every aspect of life would comply with this but dealing with industries that have high injury rates to begin with, you see an incredible amount of bad ideas. We are saying every part of the outlined class schedule because on the off chance that you didn’t think of one small thing, you could cause major problems. And since I’m not allowed to yell, ‘Don’t be an idiot’ at my class and call it a day, just listen! We have enough stories of things going wrong, we really don’t want you to be one.

Stories and Sharing: Finally, there is a thing called class participation that no one seems to think exists outside of elementary school, but has a huge impactS on your life. As your trainer, I am certified and have endless streams of stories about workplace accidents or statistical facts, but the most important aspect of learning is becoming involved with the information. You are here to ground the concepts and make internalized changes in your behavior that will keep you safe. Taking part in the class makes the material specific to you and lets you conceptualize yourself using it – a big step towards what we want out of you

Your Trainer: And finally – you are dealing with another human being in their work. I don’t come onto your site and ask if I can just tape the pipe together and go. My co-workers and I are here to perform a task we are trained to do. We will be giving you all we can while you are our student and having some respect for that can go an awfully far way in making that class dry or engaging. If you can respect our work for the day you are in the classroom we will be much more enjoyable to have at the front of it.

So remember, next time you are taking safety training: There is a reason for you to be there, and take the time to learn everything you can. So enjoy having a day spent with likeminded people and with a trainer who is excited to offer you all the knowledge they have. Take this chance to grow as an employee and stop questioning the necessity. It is essential, and we look forward to your next recertification.

Water Rescue Awareness and Guidelines

Water rescue awareness helps everyone to improve the knowledge and skills required to prevent water hazards and makes them respond quick during water emergencies.

For successful water rescue operations, rescue provider must follow some specific skills and strategies that are necessary when working in or around water. 

Aquatic experiences can be safer and enjoyable when everyone is careful to follow safety guidelines. Whether rescue provider is unknown to such skills, but he/she must need to follow some basic guidelines.

Safety and Rescue Guidelines to Operate near and in Water:

• Staying safe and trying for no accident—it takes skills, knowledge and forethought.
• The best thing anyone can do to stay safe in, on and around the water is to learn to swim well.
• At a minimum, everyone should establish and follow the general safety rules whenever they are in, on or around any body of water.
• Swim only in the areas that are being supervised by a lifeguard. Never try to swim alone.
• Read and obey all safety rules and posted signs guided previously by instructor.
• Swim only in designated areas.

• Designate a responsible individual as the person to watch over the children whenever they are in, on or around any body of water, even if a lifeguard is present.
• Take extra precautions in case of rescuing young children or inexperienced swimmers.
• Set specified swimming rules for each individual in a family or a group based on their swimming ability (for example, inexperienced swimmers should stay in water less than chest deep).
• Make sure all swimmers are aware of the particular water environment and any potential hazards, such as deep and shallow areas, currents, obstructions and the locations of entry and exit points.
• Identify potential water hazards within the community and make certain that children stay away from them.
• Get know about all previous issues and hazards history of that water body and quickly learn to prevent, recognize and respond for all emergencies.
• Use a feet first entry when entering the water first time. Enter headfirst only when the area is clearly marked for diving and has no obstructions.
• Take a boating safety training before operating any watercraft.
• Be especially cautious while operating in, on or around the moving water, cold water and ice covered water.
• Pay attention to local weather conditions and forecasts, previously.
• Be prepared! Aquatic emergencies happens suddenly.
• If possible, keep a telephone or mobile phone nearby.

  
  

People Who must Aware of Water Rescue Guidelines

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  Public safety personnel, such as police officers, firefighters and emergency medical services (EMS) personnel, who may have maximum chances to be called onto handle emergencies in, on or around the water.
• Parents or other individuals who care for the specific victim.
• Camp personnel, site guides and trip leaders.
• Clubs and organizations engaging in water activities, such as Girl Scouts of the USA, Boy Scouts of America and Boy’s and Girl’s Clubs of America.
• Daycare workers.
• Water fitness instructors, aquatic therapists, aquatic rehabilitation specialists and anyone else involved in water activities for recreation and health.
• Teachers for a emergency call out.
• Individuals who work on or around the water, classroom area should also be equipped with the necessary teaching aids and materials, such as newsprint and markers or chalkboard and chalk.

An emergency can happen to anyone in, on or around the water at any time. Must visit Mission Safety Services to grab the detailed information about water rescue, technical equipment, delivery personnel and rescue training classes available in Alberta and the areas near around.

Lead & Lipstick – Know the whole story

Lead has been on the public’s figurative lips for dangerous heavy metal exposure for literally thousands of years. Hippocrates documented his belief that is was killing slaves in ancient Greece, yet it wasn’t until the late 1970s that we finally legislated that it could no longer be used in paints and the media outcry began at the commonality of its use in consumer products. 

 One that earns a role on our literal lips; lipstick! Lead, which is used to intensify red colors, has been a staple in the composition of makeup and has received a good deal of attention from the fear mongering campaign.

Lead itself interferes with multiple biological systems from circulatory to gastrointestinal, and from nervous to reproductive. Early symptoms include abdominal pain, confusion, anemia, irritability and can lead to developmental disorders (in children), seizures, coma and eventually death.

But OMG, how cute is that color? 

Regulations state that color additives for cosmetics are allowed to contain 20 µg lead/g. this is then diluted further into the finally product, but testing discovered an average of .36-.39 µg. These numbers are meaningless without the understanding of what levels of lead does, but most people hear lead and jump to the idea that these are deadly levels. NIOSH estimates that there are 3 million workers exposed to these dangers every day in industry in America alone. This number does not include children exposed to lead based products at home or the commonality of lead levels in soil and water supplies. Workers are legally allowed to be exposed to 3.84 ug/kg a day. Using that number as a base, it is not at all frightening that someone could ingest about 0.0000003 ug/kg a day in their lipstick or even 0.08 ug/kg of lead in 8 cups of tap water.

In English this means:

Girl with the bright red lips = Will be fine. 

Guy in the hard hat in Canadian work site = danger-ish 

Guy without the safety precautions of Canada (let’s call it ‘Shina’) = Probably going to die

We like to overemphasis the things that can catch the eye, more than the really threats. WE are lucky in Canada that regulation do exist to keep us from extreme danger, but knowing the risks on work sites and in day to day life involve evaluation and understanding. Complacency is never the answer. There are groups dedicated to exposing the realities of chemicals and metals in consumer goods and making sure the consumer is aware of them too. We can make all these products without the possible risk of poisoning.

Mission Safety And Rescue Services

 Mission Safety would like to update you on some of the changes that we have made in our safety training department. First things first our courses are now cheaper we were able to restructure our training department which in turn reduced our operating costs. Mission Safety is returning that cost savings to our customers which is why we have the best pricing in the safety training industry. Above having the best price we have some of the most highly trained employees - firefighter, paramedics, EMTS, SAR TECS, and divers with years of experience performing actual life and death rescues. Let us help complement your safety training needs.