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Yayy! Qualified today as a workplace first-aider after a week (okay 4 days) of headscratching, confusion and semi-coherent responses.

I can now:

- legitimately push people aside saying, it's all right I'm a first aider

- refuse to give people an aspirin

- make them look extremely silly with nothing more than a pad and a bandage on their head

- drench people in cold water

Still don't know where the accident book actually is at work yet tho'. Must be round there somewhere...

nothing to do with file allocation tables then.

well done anyway

Mrs. Snowey wrote:Yayy! Qualified today as a workplace first-aider after a week (okay 4 days) of headscratching, confusion and semi-coherent responses.

I can now:

- legitimately push people aside saying, it's all right I'm a first aider

- refuse to give people an aspirin

- make them look extremely silly with nothing more than a pad and a bandage on their head

- drench people in cold water

Still don't know where the accident book actually is at work yet tho'. Must be round there somewhere...

Well done Mrs S.

I was a 'deputy' First Aider for my office, but asked to relinquish my role after the company declined to send me for a refresher course after my certification expired. Their official position was that it didn't matter if I was no longer formally qualified, as long as I knew the basics...

And they recently got rid of the accident books as it was argued that they were actually a breach of the Data Protection Act i.e. confidential personal information (such as Employee X caught his todger in his trouser zip) shouldn't be publicly available for other colleagues to look / laugh at.

The worst 'injury' I had to deal with was when one of the temps got fag ash in her eye...

I think I only got sent because :

a) I jumped up and down to go on it (not for any altruistic motive, just to put something new on me CV and to make them spend some money)

b) the nearest first-aider to our department is the Plant Manager. Sounds good, unless you also know his idea of treating a foreign object in someone's eye is to get a teaspoon... Plus the fact no-one can ever find him.

smiscandlon wrote:And they recently got rid of the accident books as it was argued that they were actually a breach of the Data Protection Act i.e. confidential personal information (such as Employee X caught his todger in his trouser zip) shouldn't be publicly available for other colleagues to look / laugh at.

Don't Channel 5 do programmes like that all the time?

Mrs. Snowey wrote:I jumped up and down to go on it, not for any altruistic motive, just to put something new on me CV

Snap!

smiscandlon wrote:

Mrs. Snowey wrote:I jumped up and down to go on it, not for any altruistic motive, just to put something new on me CV

Snap!

They asked me to do that at work a couple of years back- when I checked up I found out that the company refused to insure me for any 'accidents' that my first aiding may cause, so I told them to bollox.
Now, the people I worked with were not a litigious lot but you never know, and I didn't see why I should be open to being sued for all I was worth!

Its a real shame - if everyone knew a bit of first aid it could be of real benefit to society!

Good on ya for getting qualified Mrs. Snowey!

Those of us who work in schools know that there's really only one item of first aid equipment that works every time....











a damp paper towel.

Congrats Heather. I think QB should make you HLs official first aider and your post rank should reflect your achievement ...

It's a feminist issue.