1. FIRST AID
What is First Aid ? Why do we need it ? How is it widespread in a global scale?

2. Why is the training in First Aid crucial ?
The first 5 minutes following an accident are crucial.
Every minute
-10% of chance to survive
After 3 minutes
-30% of chance to survive +
Irreversible brain damages
If someone starts the CPR 1 minute
after someone’s heart stopped
90% of chance to survive ☺

3. Why is First Aid not widespread in Asia and why do people hesitate to operate it?
Governments didn’t make any law that forces people to attend First Aid trainings
People tend to delegate emergencies entirely to the emergency service and don’t take part in safety trainings individually
The majority doesn’t know what to do
Some people are afraid of possible diseases transmission
Some are afraid to do more harm
A large majority fear to be sued if they make a mistake
Bystander effect

4. Three different ways to form people in First Aid
1) Workplaces
2) Schools
3) Driver license

5. 1) Workplaces

6. Switzerland: workplaces model
Labor Law, conditions of work, companies have to ensure that their staffs work in safe conditions, have to maximize the safety of everyone and be prepared to face any potential danger at any time
Mandatory
Must have First Aid Strategy
Highly recommended
Installation of infirmeries
Emergency plan known by all
Training staff to First Aid ( < 100 employee)
First Aid equipment reachable by anyone within 1-3 minute(s)
From 100 employees -> First Aid Room well-equipped
Do everything to guarantee everyone’s safety

7. Swiss recommendations for companies
Number of staff in the company
1-10 50
100
250
>250
Number of trained rescuers
1-2
6-7
8-9
10-11
according to the official first aid plan
Number of first aid material places 1
Several, the numbers need to be defined based on the first aid plans and the environment

8. 2) Schools

9. Norway: school model 5 years old 8 years old 13-14 years old
Learn emergency numbers and
how to give their address
5 years old
How to put someone in
recovery position
8 years old
How to make tourniquets,
bandages and
cardiopulmonary
resuscitation
13-14 years old
Later ...
Save from drowning

10. 3) Driver license

11. Germany: Law on Traffics circulation
Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection
Ordinance on the admission of future road users (Driver license regulation FeV)
Art. 2 Requirement for the granting of the driver license
19 – Education on First Aid
(1) Candidates for the driver license have to participate in First Aid training during a minimum period of nine lessons of 45 minutes. The training should, with theorical content and practical exercises, form a person to necessary First Aid basics

12. Switzerland: Law on Traffic circulation
How to properly give details to the emergency service to be the most efficient
Swiss Penal Code:
Art.128 “Whoever doesn’t help a person in imminent danger of death while it could be reasonably required of him will be punishable by up to three years of jail or will have to pay a fine”
How to maintain this person physiological functions necessary for survival until the ambulance arrive
How to secure the environment and the injured person
How to use a defibrillator
How to make bandages, take care of small burns, protect ourselves from potentiel blood diseases transmission, recognize symptoms of strikes and cardiac arrests, handle them and how to save from choking
How to stop serious hemorrhages and operate a CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation)
How to give artificial respiration to someone who no longer breath
What are the correct positions to put that person in depending on the situation

13. Belgium: new traffic law
Order made by the government of Bruxelles-Capital region (29 March 2018) to change and add some modalities in the driver license exam.
-> November 2018
THEORY
PRACTICE
1-2 hours
3 hours

14. Training more people to First Aid helps building communities that are less vulnerable and more resilient.
Developing First Aid training is an excellent way to make people more aware that their own skills and behaviour make a difference to everyone’s health and safety.