There are trained professionals who can be called when somebody is sick or injured, but if the average person knows first aid and CPR, hurt, sick, or dying people can receive life-saving care much faster.
Some injuries or illnesses can also be treated without professional care if the average person knows enough first aid to handle it alone.
So that you, yourself, do not end up needing first aid.
first aid and safety are both about keeping people safe. Safety tries to prevent accidents, and first aid tries to fix the damage lack of safety caused.
for safety
With first aid its important to stay clean so that the cut, scrape, or open injury does not get infected! Also never EVER call the injured person a victim because if you do they'll think that something really bad happened to them! With safety its important to just stay careful and cautious!
Part of first aid training is safety, which will help to protect your life.
first aid to uninjured people
Health and Safety (First Aid) regulations (1981)ContentReviewed in 2005.Employers must provide adequate First Aid provision for employees and the general public.Example in sports industryIt was important to the sports industry that sport is given by its very nature element of risk to an individual's safety.All staff must be appropriately trained to help maintain safety within their working enviroment.For example, Lifeguard qualification for a pool attendant, First Aid qualifications held by appropriate staff on-duty.
Barbara Kennedy has written: 'Wilderness safety and first-aid manual for ages 8-18' -- subject(s): First Aid, First aid in illness and injury, Juvenile literature, Medical emergencies, Outdoor medical emergencies, Safety
Alton L. Thygerson has written: 'Study guide for first aid practices' 'First aid, CPR, and AED Standard' -- subject(s): First aid in illness and injury, First Aid, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Automated external defibrillation, Electric Countershock, CPR (First aid) 'CPR' -- subject(s): Popular works, CPR (First aid), Methods, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Handbooks, Standards, Airway Obstruction, Therapy, First Aid 'First aid and CPR' -- subject(s): Accessible book, First aid in illness and injury, CPR (First aid) 'Safety: principles, instruction, and readings' -- subject(s): Accidents, Safety education, Prevention 'First aid' -- subject(s): First aid in illness and injury, Medical emergencies 'First Aid & Emergency Care Workbook' -- subject(s): Emergencies, First aid in illness and injury, Medical emergencies, First Aid 'Fit to be well' -- subject(s): Health, Physical fitness 'Safety' -- subject(s): Accidents, Safety education, Prevention 'First aid handbook' -- subject(s): First aid in illness and injury, Handbooks, manuals 'Bu Fit To Be Well' 'Teaching first aid resource book' -- subject(s): Study and teaching, First aid in illness and injury 'First aid, CPR, and AED' -- subject(s): Accessible book, First aid in illness and injury, First Aid, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Automated external defibrillation, Electric Countershock, CPR (First aid) 'First aid pocket guide' -- subject(s): First aid in illness and injury, Handbooks, manuals 'First aid and CPR' -- subject(s): First aid in illness and injury, CPR (First aid)
No. At least not DURING first aid but AFTER.
first aid is very important. It can save your life.
First aid is important because it is the essential primary care given to an injured person hence the name, "first aid". If a person were simply thrown in the back of the ambulance on route to a hospital then it would be possible that he or she could bleed out where as if proper first aid were given they might have lived. First aid is important because it is an immediate care...