Team:Safety/FirstAid
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Background
The first aid team is responsible for ensuring that all attendees and volunteers are able to access timely, appropriate care in the event of a medical emergency.
The team will consist mainly of volunteers with existing first aid certification who are happy to work as first aiders for a few shifts, hopefully supported by a small number of healthcare professionals who can be called upon if their expertise are required.
Objectives
- Provide a 24 hour first aid service, responding appropriately to incidents anywhere on the site within an agreed time.
- Provide a control and dispatch (CAD) function, monitoring the team's capacity, and liaising with other teams and external services as required.
- Source and make available first aid supplies for team use, and to make available at other strategic points around the site.
- Provide a storage service for medications that need to be kept refrigerated.
- Adequate clinical record-keeping to ensure that all legal requirements are met, without storing any more information than is essential.
- Ensure that any interested volunteers from any team can access basic training (maybe around 1hr worth) in how to deal with medical emergencies while waiting for help.
Current Priorities
- Establish exact requirements for the event (particularly relating to the permit).
- Plan volunteer recruitment (it's possible this will involve an element of vetting, so will need starting some time in advance).
- Very broadly start planning first aid point locations and deployment types, so that we are in a position to start thinking about shifts in the near future.