by admin | Nov 30, 2013 | basics
What is Hypothermia? When a person starts losing heat, their body undergoes certain changes to avoid shutting down its internal processes. For example, many skiers and mountain men fall victim to hypothermia, for their protective equipment did not pride the adequate...
by admin | Nov 19, 2013 | News
Although it’s highly recommended, in general people do not take out time to formally learn life skills. This could be because we hope bad things, accidents and emergencies won’t happen to us, but unfortunately they do. Almost everyone, at some point in their lives...
by admin | Nov 9, 2013 | basics
By now, if you’ve been reading regularly, you should know a few different approaches to patient assessment. The 4Bs and the 3Ps come to mind. Up to now, we’ve not really talked about how to assess a person’s level of responsiveness, so let’s do...
by admin | Nov 5, 2013 | top tips
There are many reasons you or your kids might need an ice pack. In fact in our house the rule for ‘owies’ is “Band-aid if there’s blood, ice packs for everything else”. So imagine your little person falls and has a cut lip, or a tooth...
by admin | Oct 28, 2013 | News
So now you’ve read the 3 P’s of First Aid (I hope) and you know what needs doing to your casualty or casualties and in what order. Next thing people often ask us is ‘how do I approach a situation?’ For the most part, this means what you do as a first aider...
by admin | Oct 24, 2013 | News, safety, workplace
On November the 1st 2013, WCB will introduce new OHS policies for dealing with workplace conflict. These Bullying and Harassment at Work processes are designed to help workers, employers and supervisors prevent and address workplace conflict through policy, reporting...
by admin | Oct 15, 2013 | basics, News
It seems to me every morning the darkness lasts a little longer. Then again I’m usually driving in it, so it’s noticeable. Evenings are getting shorter too, so it seemed appropriate to us to talk a little about safety after dark. Here are our top ten tips for safety...
by admin | Sep 25, 2013 | News
Today we have a guest post from our colleague Dr Dean Elbe. You may know we already offer drug & alcohol awareness training, but at times people have questions about what can or can’t be mixed. Sometimes, these are questions you don’t want to ask your...
by admin | Sep 3, 2013 | News
When people think about serious injuries, it’s usually spinal and brain injuries that come to mind. Traumatic brain injuries are one of the most common outcomes from substantially serious accidents. In fact, about 1.7 million traumatic brain injuries occur in...
