Seat Belt Awareness

Let’s go back to the prairie land. Back before motorized vehicles existed. Remember The Little House on the Prairie or John Wayne westerns? If you took note of the time era entertainment depictions, you may have noticed that transportation was best either via foot,...

How to avoid car fires

Vehicle fires are one of the most common types. Here’s how you can minimise your risk. Parking The number of intentional car fires has increased by 200% since 1989, so it’s important that you keep your car parked in a secure place, where it’s less likely to get broken...

5 first aid procedures everyone should learn

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...

First Aid – A CRITICAL Approach

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...