by admin | Feb 14, 2013 | basics, Burns, safety
We are used to seasonal warnings about safety issues – drink-drive campaigns at Christmas etc. but there is one holiday that often gets scandalously overlooked – St. Valentine’s Day. There are dangers lurking throughout the day on Feb 14th every year. ...
by admin | Feb 12, 2013 | basics, safety
Valentine’s Day’s is almost upon us, hurrah! But this year, the swarm of celebrity chefs that have been emerging, and rumours of a triple dip recession, are likely to send us skipping to the kitchen to prepare a candle lit meal for two. We could have a problem,...
by admin | Feb 7, 2013 | basics, News, safety
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...
by admin | Feb 6, 2013 | basics
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...
by admin | Jan 30, 2013 | CCEFA, News
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...
by admin | Jan 29, 2013 | News
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...
by admin | Jan 18, 2013 | News
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...
by admin | Jan 15, 2013 | News
Chainsaw Safety Training – it’s not just about protective equipment; It’s about you and your skills as well. Now that we offer chainsaw safety training on-line, we’ve done some research. Recently that helped us to create the chainsaw safety...
by admin | Jan 12, 2013 | asthma
What is Asthma? A breathing condition in which the airways constrict (narrow) making it harder to breathe. It is most common in children and young adults although it could affect anyone. Asthma attacks can come on quickly and at their most serious could leave you...
by admin | Jan 4, 2013 | safety
We’ve recently been given the opportunity to promote Chainsaw Safety. Not really knowing too much about chainsaw safety (except that it’s one of the scenarios in the OFA1 course) we went digging for statistics. Here’s what we came up with. Chainsaw...
