Importance of First Aid Training

The importance of First Aid training – First Aid Training can significantly help to preserve and save lives in the workplace. Training is an essential tool that arms employees with skills as to how to take care for their lives and those around them in an incident situation. However, only proper training can serve this purpose.

The role of first aiders is to be the ears and the eyes of the health professionals who will ultimately take over the care of an affected person in an accident situation. First aiders have the fundamental role of providing care and implementing mechanisms that can save lives or contain an incident from spiraling out of control.

Employers should ensure that training is not provided by just anybody as this may prove fruitless. Employees should be given proper training by acquiring the services of a training institution that is accredited by the Health and Welfare Sector Education and Training Authority, HWSETA. A pre-check to determine if such training covers the relevant aspects for their workplace would is advisable to employers. An effective course will be that which has a balance between theory and practical. Moreover, to ensure that proper training is acquired, employers can conduct a background check on the chosen institute to double check its success rates.

The First Aid kit is an essential component and tool for first aid. It is essential that employees are properly trained about the box, its importance, contents and use. It will be a huge waste of money and time if a first aid kit is provided in the workplace and employees are either clueless, misinformed or have little knowledge about its use and importance. Employers tend to reach out and comply with the law by providing this kit but overlook the ultimate importance of acquiring training on the use of the kit and first aid in general.

Training employees about the First Aid kit helps them know about the contents of the box. Knowing what is inside the box helps employees know what to use and when in case of an incident. Be less knowledgeable could lead to the improper use of various items in the box which may escalate the intensity of an injury by using the wrong items. The negative impact of misuse could be reflected when the next injured person cannot be helped because an item that could help him or her is no longer available in the kit.

Employees who are trained as first aiders can play a major role in containing an accident scene until professional health care arrives. First aiders are skilled to perform the fundamental basics of live-saving like ensuring that the injured person's airways are open, has a sufficient breathing air, by securing an accident scene and checking his or her pulse. These are of the 'ABCs ?� of life that first aiders can perform and these skilled can only be acquired through proper training. If no employees are trained and are solely dependent on paramedics, the time between the accident and the arrival of help could be enough to go with one's life.

Send employees for training can, by far, reduce the extensiveness of injuries and damages. This will be achieved by the fact that they are trained to be contained and to be calm in an emergency situation hence; they will certainly know the right procedures to partake and act confidently. Above all, proper first aid training gives all employees, the comfort and confidence to work in an environment where they know that everyone around is a skilled first aiders who can be help save their lives in case anything happens to them.

Therefore, companies should seriously consider sending as many employees as possible on first-aid training. Attending an accredited first-aid training course not only provides them with life-saving skills, but also with general skills, knowledge and understanding of current best practices. A first-aid certificate is not a ‘licence to treat’ but it is the first step towards humanity when you save a life.

First Aid training is the first step towards creating a healthy and safe working environment. Training is the answer to maintaining the standards.