First Aid training and work at the barn: 09-01-2018

Today 12 NCVs were first aid trained to ensure their certificates were up to date. The trainer was Steve Smith of 'First Aider Training' and the course was based at Broadbelt Hall in Glasshouses. Successful completion of the programme by everyone involved now means that the NCVs can venture outside, bearing all sorts of dangerous tools, without worrying about their well being. Thanks go to Steve for an excellent training day  - let's just hope we never have to put our training into practice!!

The photos below show the highlights ....

Mark ably demonstrates how to put a casualty 
into the recovery position if they are to be left unattended.

 

These two casualties fell onto their fronts
so don't need to be moved (unless they're not breathing!).

This fella has been trapped in a car. 
He can be left in place until the ambulance arrives.
Unless the car is about to fall off the edge of a cliff.

These two Siamese twins are less fortunate.
Apart from having no legs, they are not breathing and therefore require CPR.

Fancy there being two pairs of legless Siamese twins in one room.
What are the chances of that? And needing CPR too.

If you can get hold of a defibrillator - all to the good.
Make sure that you put the two patches in the right places and STAND CLEAR!

 As luck would have it there was a real defibrillator on the wall of the hall, 
so Steve took us all outside to have a look at it.
It was good to see that the real one functioned exactly like the training one.

Mind you - if you are on your own with a casualty and a defib. machine is more than a minute away then it has to stay there. CPR takes priority.
You only have 3 mins before the brain starts to die once a person stops breathing.
Keep that blood moving around the body!!

Eleven who were not involved in the training day reported to the NCVs' barn, where they were kept busy cleaning and sharpening or re-setting tools, sawing up and stacking firewood for the wood burning stove, doing a little bit of tidying up and even collecting litter from the roadside into Glasshouses and up at Two Stoops and Toft Gate car parks (not an inviting task on such a misty and dank day). Here's how they got on....

Dave practised the fox trot with a rather skinny looking NCV.

"Oh my. What big eyes you have."
"All the better to re-set saws by, my dear."

Colin and Graham try to keep the saw horse under control 
whilst cutting up wood for the stove.

And the rubbish kept piling up - 
thanks to litter pickers Will and Andy.

Conor and James A & B tidied the boots and tools shelves.
I wonder how long they will remain looking like that?

Wood store replenished, old tools sharpened and new tools marked 
with the crucial green splodge signifying NCV ownership.

Lunch gathered around the log burner - although not everyone could fit.

First come first served!