Thursday, 5 August 2010
Paediatric First Aid Questions (Part 1)
Q1. How long is a Paediatric first aid certificate valid for?Q2. Why do we use accident forms?
Q3. What items would you expect to find in a First Aid box in a child care setting?
Q4. Before administering medication to a child what criteria needs to be met?
Q5. What is a Primary Survey in First Aid?
Q6. During the Resuscitation sequence on a baby if breathing is absent what is your next action?
Q7. If a five year old collapses and is not breating what is you first action if you are on your own?
Q8. A baby starts to choke on a small piece of food what are your actions?
Q10. When would you use the recover position?
Q10. How do you recognise Anaphylactic Shock?
Q11. What is the treatment for a hot water burn to a child's forearm?
Q12. What is the treatment for sand in a child's eye?
Q13. How would you treat a convulsion caused by overheating for a 7 year old child?
Q14. How would you recognise concussion in a child?
Q15. What are the signs and symptoms of meningitis?
Q16. How would you treat a child having an asthma attack?
Monday, 2 August 2010
Risks of Falls
A firm that failed to protect workers from the risk of falls despite previous warnings has been fined £10,000.
The HSE prosecuted Gee Construction, principal contractor at a site in Caerphilly in South Wales, after an inspector found numerous failings at the site in October 2009.
Problems included unguarded lift shafts on the first and second floors, and inadequate edge protection elsewhere.
No one was hurt as a result of the failings but the inspector stopped all work at the site above ground level until Gee had put safe systems of work in place.
The company had also previously received another Prohibition Notice for work at height failings in 2008.
“As principal contractors, the company was responsible for the safety of everyone on the site,” said HSE inspector David Kirkpatrick.
“It had previously received warnings from HSE and its own safety consultants about safely working at height, but clearly this advice had been ignored.”
Basildon-based Gee Construction pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 6(3) of the Work at Height Regulations, which requires employers to take suitable measures to prevent people falling from any height liable to cause injury.
On 22 July, Caerphilly magistrates fined the company £10,000 and ordered it to pay £4514 costs.
The HSE prosecuted Gee Construction, principal contractor at a site in Caerphilly in South Wales, after an inspector found numerous failings at the site in October 2009.
Problems included unguarded lift shafts on the first and second floors, and inadequate edge protection elsewhere.
No one was hurt as a result of the failings but the inspector stopped all work at the site above ground level until Gee had put safe systems of work in place.
The company had also previously received another Prohibition Notice for work at height failings in 2008.
“As principal contractors, the company was responsible for the safety of everyone on the site,” said HSE inspector David Kirkpatrick.
“It had previously received warnings from HSE and its own safety consultants about safely working at height, but clearly this advice had been ignored.”
Basildon-based Gee Construction pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 6(3) of the Work at Height Regulations, which requires employers to take suitable measures to prevent people falling from any height liable to cause injury.
On 22 July, Caerphilly magistrates fined the company £10,000 and ordered it to pay £4514 costs.
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