Health and Safety Factor in Outdoor Learning

What is the First Action advised when attempting to give first aid

• Check for Bleeding

• Check for Danger

• Check for an Airway

• Check for a Response

The aim of first aid is to:

• Preserve the activity

• Prevent outdoor activities shutting down

• Preserve Life

• Promote recovery

All First Aid kits should be fit for

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The top life saving piece on kit to take outdoors on activity is...

• Drawing pin

• Carry Mat

• Goggles

• Gloves

International distress signal is

• 1 long blast on a whistle

• 2 long blasts on the a whistle

• 4 short blasts on a whistle

• 6 short blast on a whistle

How do risk assessment promote safety?

• Raise awareness of hazards

• Assess severity and probability of risk

• Place measures to reduce activity to an acceptable level of risk

• Inform instructors what, when and where to act

How do risk assessment raise awareness of specific risks

• Identifying when to lunch

• Identifying control measures

• Identifying Hazards

• Identifying safety actions

What must be included in a Control Measure to ensure safety?

• Who should take responsibility of safety action

• When safety action must happen

• Where safety actions should happen

• What safety action must happen

Before an instructors departs for the mountains what should they have done in case of an emergency?

• Packed chocolate

• Inspected everyones bags

• Left a responsible person with route card including what time expected to return

• Bought everyone pizza

If something goes wrong on the mountains what needs to happen fast?

• Everyone needs to eat

• First aid needs to be given

• Team need to be briefed on what heppening

• Send for help