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Behavioural Safety – A CPD Workshop for Lifeguards
- January 13, 2017
- Posted by: QLMTeam
- Category: Uncategorized
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Train your Lifeguards in Behavioural Safety – A CPD Workshop for Lifeguards ‘Ok, so your lifeguards are qualified, but how confident are you that they are focused and switched on to the critical role of pool safety at all times. After all, two thirds of casualties in swimming pools are reported in difficulty to the
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Training on defibrillators is to be included on the EFAW and FAW Syllabus.
- January 13, 2017
- Posted by: QLMTeam
- Category: News
The HSE has announced in the June 2016 First Aid eBulletin, that training on defibrillators is to be included on the EFAW and FAW Syllabus. Changes to the Resuscitation Council UK guidelines on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in October 2015 mean that the HSE will now be revising the Emergency First Aid and First Aid at
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Faulty defibrillator warning
- January 13, 2017
- Posted by: QLMTeam
- Category: News
People and organisations should check if they have the defibrillator models, LIFEPAK CR Plus and LIFEPAK EXPRESS Automatic External Defibrillators (AED), as an electrical fault with some of them may not deliver an electric shock to the heart to someone who is in cardiac arrest. It is believed that 2,577 devices are defective. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/faulty-defibrillator-warning
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CIMSPA Risk Assessment Guidance Manual 2016 published
- January 13, 2017
- Posted by: QLMTeam
- Category: News, Publications
The sixth edition is now available, replacing the 2011 version. All the risk assessments have been reviewed and updated by industry specialists, taking into account learning points from legal cases, changes to industry guidance and feedback from operators. Specific emphasis has been given to developing the manual to also meet the needs of the sports
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Jane Bell pool death
- December 7, 2016
- Posted by: QLMTeam
- Category: Expert Witness
Jane Bell pool death: Dalmeny Hotel in St Annes fined £100,000 The owners of the hotel where a three-year-old girl drowned in a swimming pool have been fined £100,000. Jane Bell got into difficulty at the Dalmeny Hotel in St Annes, Lancashire, in August 2014. She was in the hotel’s main pool with her mother
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