【Stones from Other Hills】First aid training for all citizens, how does Australia do it?

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In Australia, there is a consensus that education for first aid needs to be introduced into primary and secondary schools to help improve children’s self-protection and self-rescue capabilities. They believe that “doing it from a baby” can not only cultivate the family’s attention to first aid knowledge, but also reserve talents for the future society to improve first aid capabilities.

Although first-aid courses in Australia are not yet compulsory for students across the country, many schools have already started teaching in this area with the help of multiple sources. For example, ask social groups to cooperate with schools. It is understood that the Australian Red Cross Society, St. John's Emergency Center and other institutions have established a practice to regularly introduce children to the age of 8 to 10 years old to introduce the basic knowledge of first aid.

The first aid courses for these children include how to deal with common problems that may occur in life such as electric shock, burns, burns, bleeding from facial injuries, and shock. In order to impress these students, the course will use a simulated scene so that children can use their brains in emergency situations. At the same time, the trainers will also inform students that they can use the most common tools in life to help first aid.

In addition to the school’s group training, Australian students are also “popular” before they graduate to apply for separate first aid courses. In general, a standard first-aid course lasts about two days. After passing the exam, you can get a first-aid certificate. For them, this certificate is not only a glorious one, but also a responsibility for schools, communities, and society, and it can also be more favored in future corporate recruitment.

In addition, in the various celebration activities that children are keen on, Australia’s emergency departments, fire departments and other departments will also actively participate in setting up booths to conduct emergency education and education for children at the event site.

Law to promote

For people suffering from sudden illnesses in public places, whether the rescue and emergency measures can be appropriate at the first time will test the overall emergency capacity of a country. Australia attaches great importance to this and actively promotes the entire society's ability to respond to emergencies through legal means.

First of all, the provisions of the law have fundamentally promoted more people to learn about emergency care. It includes two aspects:

First, it requires that workers in certain special industries must have first-aid qualifications. According to the relevant laws of Australia, those who are more likely to come into contact with emergency situations at work, the staff must first obtain a first-aid qualification certificate before starting employment as a threshold that must be crossed before entering the job. These posts include police officers, teachers, train station workers, construction workers, social workers, and some waiters.

Second, it requires companies, institutions, and other entities must have certain first-aid capabilities, and office space must be equipped with at least one first-aid kit. According to the Australian Occupational Health and Safety Law, if there are more than 25 employees in the company, at least one employee in the company must have received formal first aid training and hold a valid first aid certificate.

In order to ensure that qualified personnel do indeed have first-aid capabilities, the certificate of conformity is required to be updated every three years, and the cardiopulmonary resuscitation certificate is to be renewed every two years. In other words, the trainee must take another day to revisit the course highlights and re-take practice exams.

Planning for public places

In addition to the law, the Australian Government has also improved its emergency preparedness plans and related preventive measures in places such as train stations, subway stations, and construction sites through the implementation of public policies.

For example, on subways where people are commuting on a regular basis, passengers are often reminded by radio. If you feel uncomfortable, you should press the emergency call button. After getting off at the next stop, the staff will immediately help you. There are not only emergency buttons in the car, but also a button in the station and a wake up indicator. Staff can quickly pick up the first-aid kit and contact the ambulance while on-site.

In special workplaces such as construction sites, because of the greater risk factor, the equipment and medicines for emergency kits are more stringent.

In addition, the government also accumulates the power of social groups through accreditation or appropriate subsidies to attract the public to learn first aid.

Medical association groups and some non-governmental community organizations, such as the Chinese Services Agency in Sydney, Australia, can organize training courses on first aid certification. Officially-recognized first-aid professionals teach classes to ordinary citizens, including how to deal with sudden problems such as heart attack, traumatic bleeding, fractures, joint dislocation, coma, asthma, and allergic reactions. In this way, those who have not received relevant training at the school stage can also obtain first-aid certificates by learning as long as they wish.

Through multiple levels of guidance, Australia has a growing population of basic first aid knowledge, and it is increasingly common practice to have first aid kits in the home.

This article is from the Internet.