Valentine’s Day: Get hot on 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,...

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...

Choking at Christmas?

While you’re busy spending time preparing for Christmas, brush up on your choking treatments too! There are lots of parties with finger food, nuts come out at this time of year, new toys with small parts & batteries, the choking risk-list is long at...

Kids Toys – make safe choices this Christmas

This close to Christmas, Big Red and his Elves go into overdrive making kids toys. So how sure are you that his Quality Control is perfect? Here are some hints and tips to help you choose the safe toys at any time of year, not just for Christmas! Read the warning...

Red Cross First Aid Quiz Questions

[Update: 1 Feb 2013] OK, look, we’re gettting so many people visiting this page that we’re thinking about designing an on-line quiz or an App. Would you be interested? Add your name below and we’ll let you know once it’s live. (It goes straight...