Updated April 2024 1. How do you check for breathing? To check for breathing in an unconscious casualty, open and maintain their airway – tilt their head and lift their chin to move the tongue from the back of their throat. Then, look, listen and feel for breathing. Look at their belly for movement, listen…
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We have produced a specific Incident Report Book for equestrian settings. The Incident Report Book includes Riding Establishment Health and Safety Guidance Notes and is the UK’s only riding establishment specific Incident Report book. Get confident – get trained! The best way to feel confident about dealing with first aid incidents is to take a specialist
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Most first aid certificates last for 3 years, some for just one year. In between, your knowledge and possible ability to respond, naturally fades. If we deal with very few incidents in the workplace, this lack of practice in skills is compounded and can lead to a poor response to an incident. There is no
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Updated January, 2024 When working with horses everyone understands there is a certain risk involved, but few of us ever think about the risk associated with the lifestyle we all know and love. As equestrians we expose ourselves to the elements day in and day out, blistering heat in the summer and freezing temperatures in
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It’s Good Employers Week at the Equestrian Employers Association. But what’s that got to do with us at Medi-K? As equestrian specific First Aid trainers, we understand that employment security for many in the equestrian sector is a precarious balancing act; ensuring that you have a work/life balance is important.  But so is paying your
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Lyme Disease is a bacterial infection carried by ticks that is on the increase throughout the country. Awareness and prompt action are your best ways of protecting yourself from this potentially debilitating disease. Read more detail about Tick Removal and Understanding Lyme Disease in our blog here. FAQs: Why are there more ticks around now?
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First Aid Training Co-operative has been producing digital first aid manuals since 2016 and after partnering up with Medi-K First Aid in 2020 we published our ‘Equestrian specific’ version of the digital manual series. This is a unique product full of useful information for riders, grooms, coaches and livery owners. It is a digital manual
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Updated June, 2023 For the hot and sunny days we enjoy with our horses, there are important things we need to know about first aid in the sun. Equestrians expose themselves to the elements day in and day out, blistering heat in the summer and freezing temperatures in the winter. But how often do you
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What is a Crushing Injury? Dealing with crushing injuries is often complicated and time critical. Often, there is little visible damage on the outside. But this belies the fact that the damage that has occurred on the inside. Crush injuries occur when a part of the body, such as a hand, arm, leg, foot or
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A blog for Equestrian (and other) businesses. If you are a child of the 70s or 80s then you probably think of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) as the government group who takes all the fun out of life. The changing standards to ensure you are wearing the right hat or body protector, to
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