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You obviously enjoy a treatment based clinical role. One particular downside is that your employer has a statutory duty to provide a certain number of qualified first aiders first-aiders and this is dependant on the degree of risk. In the heavy industry sector that will be a significant number which comes at a significant cost in both time to attend training and the cost of the training courses they attend. They will rapidly become de-skilled if they do not practice what they have been taught. I agree that advising on and managing the first-aid provision is an important function of an OH service. Providing a treatment service results in there being less time for pro-active OH advisory role which involves health protection and health promotion, including interventions associated with statutory and non-statutory health surveillance, accident prevention not to mention developing strategies designed to support employees with long term conditions or following significant periods of sickness absence as part of vocational rehabilitation. I am sure others will hold a range of views and this could be an interesting debate. Anne Anne Harriss Associate Professor Course Director LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY On 07/04/2016 12:53, "Sandra Coyne" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I have worked in heavy industry for over 20 years and have always provided > first aid and been part of emergency response teams. Yes we had first aiders > but the companies employed them to do a job and employed a nurse to take care > of the employees plus the usual medicals ect. They would not like the fact > that they had to pull a first aider off a job sometimes when they are working > at height or a mile away from the first aid centre to clean out someone's eyes > or clean a laceration when a nurse was in the first aid center. I have always > been available for anyone who wanted to talk over a problem, or wanted > information , I have found this a very interesting part of the job and also > you get to know the employees more so than if you were just doing medicals ect > so I for one will still provide first aid if and when needed and be very happy > to do so. > > ******************************** > Please remove this footer before replying. > > OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html > > CONFERENCES AND STUDY DAYS: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH ******************************** Please remove this footer before replying. OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html CONFERENCES AND STUDY DAYS: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH