First Aid and Personal Safety
This course will be able to introduce the participants and provide an understanding on the meaning and significance of First Aid, the different types of situations that demand a First Aid Response and some of the different First Aid procedures, techniques and practices. The security component started with a general understanding of humanitarian security environment and then moved on to a management approach to security. The five steps of the security management framework were discussed in detail. There were specific sessions on some of the steps in the framework – context assessment, and threat and risk analysis.
The First Aid part of the training started with introduction to emergency first aid and more specifically about dos and don’ts of first aid, procedure for rapid assessment of casualty, followed by recovery position and CPR. The second session was on management of bleeding wounds using different types of bandages. The sessions were largely practical in nature, which gave opportunities to participants to practice the new learning.
The safety aspects pf the training explains about management of specific threats: security of premises, travel, and dealing with crowds and mobs. The session on abduction and hostage taking could not be covered due to time constraints. One of the key outputs of the training is the risk analysis matrix which the participants were able to come up with. Of course, this would require more work but it is a good starting point in the direction.
