There is no requirement for a first-aider if there are fewer than 150 employees.
The major safety measures are outside the ambit of the first-aider, and they are a quite different problem: they are a matter for factory management.
It worked out at less than £4 for a man to take a full course in first-aid and become a trained safety first-aider.
We think it will lead to hopeless confusion to try to muddle up safety officers, whatever they may be, with the first-aider, as he is called.
For the first-aider or untrained bystander, this may entail only the positioning of the head in the neutral position and then maintaining it there until more professional help arrives.
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.
The regulations double the ratio of first-aiders to employees underground.
I must say that the main problem here is the shortage of trained first-aiders.
