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CHAPTER 14 FIRST AID
Incident Management Plan

• Human beings can live without food for around three weeks.

• We can survive without water for three days.

• Without oxygen we will die in less than five minutes.

In an emergency situation, a first aider should take five steps:

1. Assess the situation 5. After the Accident

Find out what happened. Once the casualty is taken away by an ambulance. Remember to
Watch out for hazards which ask where they are being taken to. You could then pass this
could do further damage. information on to the casualty’s family or friends. Remember if you
are at school to write about what has happened and talk about your
feelings with an appropriate adult. If you have used a first aid kit
2. Remove any danger make sure that it is topped up with everything that has been used.
Do not put yourself at risk.
If you can, make it safe by
removing any danger. If you are
unable to, go immediately for help Unconscious casualties should always be
i.e. to make a 999 or 112 call. attended to first. They may not be breathing
and their heart may have stopped. If this is the
case, follow the ABC of emergency resuscitation.
3. Decide how to help the injured person A A irways

Give Emergency Aid to casualty by deciding how injured the
B B
person is, i.e. looking at their injuries. reathing

C C asualty unresponsive
4. Get Help - Dial 999 or 112

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