Choosing Safety [Infographic]

Choosing Safety can be challenging! Anyone employing other people needs to consider Choosing Safety as part of the process. Certainly here in BC, there are legal requirements to be met even if you only have one employee (I suggest you get in touch if you don’t...

The 3 Cs of First Aid

Current Red Cross First Aid practice (in Canada at least) requires you to think about and act on the 3 Cs of First Aid. Use them with the 3 Ps & 4 Bs to guide care. Yes sometimes it does seem like we have an alphabet soup going on, but each approach compliments...

Febrile Seizures in Children

What is a Febrile Seizure? A seizure is a temporary disturbance in the electrical connections in the brain. A Febrile Seizure is one caused by fever. These are also called a Febrile Seizure and/or a Febrile Convulsion (we’ll use the terms interchangeably here). While...

Juggling Chainsaws & Protective Clothing

Juggling Chainsaws Just something we found lying around. If you ever wonder about the safety of your staff, things could be worse. They could be juggling chainsaws in pink underwear (in Covent Garden, it seems). [youtube...

Social Media in an Emergency

We’ve written before about ‘can I eMail 911?’ – to which the answer was no. However social media is becoming a mainstream means of communication. So, we wondered what would it look like if we were to use social media in an emergency. We looked...