We are lucky to have first-aiders as members of the staff, and we have revised our arrangements to ensure that the necessary equipment and facilities can easily be reached.
If factories cannot get trained industrial first-aiders, it would be far better to have people who work in the factory take a course in ordinary first aid.
I understand that the health and safety at work regulations require first-aiders to be available in places of employment where there are more than 150 employees.
I opened my speech by saying that hundreds of deaths could be prevented each year if qualified first-aiders were able to intervene.
It was extremely difficult to get people to give up time and thought to practise to become competent first-aiders.
I must say that the main problem here is the shortage of trained first-aiders.
The regulations double the ratio of first-aiders to employees underground.
The amount of training required in this particular form of industrial safety for first-aiders, given that there is a training scheme, is quite small.
