Abstract
Accidents are unplanned occurrences that result in injuries, illness, death, and loss of property and/or production. While there is no way to completely eliminate accidents, there are certain plans, preparations, and actions that can be taken to reduce them. First aid is usually a critical part in the management of acute injuries and conditions. The rescuer is the first person with medical training to arrive at the scene of a medical incident and the purpose of his actions is to maintain vital functions, to prevent the occurrence of dangerous complications for the life and health of the victim, before the intervention of medical staff. Despite current concerns about infection with the new coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), prevention of its spread and treatment, various lesions and conditions unrelated to this virus still occur. Prompt first aid can prevent an additional burden on the health system by taking care of simple ailments at the crime scene, rather than calling the ambulance system or transporting the victim to a hospital. This paper presents first aid elements in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the manoeuvres that will be performed minimizing the risk of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen.
Highlights
Every year, around 5 million people in the European Union suffer accidents at work with consequences that are sometimes permanent, and affect people's ability to work and have a life outside work.Work-related accidents occur in all sectors and include slips, strikes, falls, falls from heights, sharp cuts, burns, electric shocks, traffic accidents on public roads, acute intoxications, contamination, contact with carcinogens, etc
Given that accidents at work are the consequence of malfunctions in the work ecosystem and that these dysfunctions can occur at different levels of the work system, measures to prevent accidents at work involve, on one hand, identification of risk
In order to be able to solve the overall problems of interventions, a systemic analysis of the specificity of each intervention, classified according to nature of the hazardous environment of intervention, is necessary
Summary
Around 5 million people in the European Union suffer accidents at work with consequences that are sometimes permanent, and affect people's ability to work and have a life outside work. The issues raised by intervention, in order to control an emergency, do not allow a momentary analysis, "in effect", of dangers posed by the environments in which it is necessary to intervene, they must be approached as if they were permanently at a maximum level of danger Such an approach has the advantage of ensuring a large degree of protection, even for unforeseen situations of sudden increases in concentration limits of hazardous environments in early stages of formation. In order to be able to solve the overall problems of interventions, a systemic analysis of the specificity of each intervention, classified according to nature of the hazardous environment of intervention, is necessary This means analysing the manner in which potential danger manifests in the case of interventions in explosive, toxic, complex and aggressive environments (with chemical and thermal variants), and finding solutions to mitigate them
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