Fitness Standards For Industries

[jomoco]

This is a UK perspective

 

Its a small and heavily populated place fairly well stocked with competent well trained emergency responders both professional and unpaid volunteers.

 

The only reason to evacuate a casualty yourself would be to expedite the evacuation but the risk of harm is unlikely to get any where near out weighing the risk.

 

Have you ever tried a stretcher carry?. I have as a mountain rescue volunteer. Over the flat its doable on a short distance, 2 can manage that but over steep or broken ground you are going to need a group of 6 as a minimum and double that to work relays over a longer stretch. Most tree work gangs don't run anywhere near those staffing levels.

 

No professional responder would thank you for carting an incapacitated casualty unless they were in imminent mortal danger if they didn't move. The official line in the UK is don't move them unless you have got to.

 

The UK isn't a place where people fall into canyons and have to hack their own arms off with a pocket knife.

 

Primum non nocere

 

You mean like pumping blood from a femoral artery being nicked?

 

Quick, call 911, our trusty EMT's will arrive within seconds, long before this poor bloke bleeds out. After all, this is the UK!

 

What!

 

Jomoco

[treequip]

You mean like pumping blood from a femoral artery being nicked?

 

Quick, call 911, our trusty EMT's will arrive within seconds, long before this poor bloke bleeds out. After all, this is the UK!

 

What!

 

Jomoco

 

You do talk such awful shyte.

 

You were talking specifically about stretchers.

 

If you don't like the way something is going, just change the subject eh.....

[jomoco]

I speak of nothing I haven't had hands on firsthand experience with mate.

 

To suggest preparedness to deal with chainsaw cuts promptly's not critical in this biz strikes me as bloody hilarious. Particularly the part about it not being applicable to the UK.

 

Jomoco

[WesD]

You mean like pumping blood from a femoral artery being nicked?

 

 

 

Quick, call 911, our trusty EMT's will arrive within seconds, long before this poor bloke bleeds out. After all, this is the UK!

 

 

 

What!

 

 

 

Jomoco

 

 

Pretty sure in this instance by the time you have them strapped onto a stretcher they are dead anyway?!?! Surely your time would be better spent trying to pressure/stop the bleed.

 

 

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[Mesterh]

I speak of nothing I haven't had hands on firsthand experience with mate.

 

To suggest preparedness to deal with chainsaw cuts promptly's not critical in this biz strikes me as bloody hilarious. Particularly the part about it not being applicable to the UK.

 

Jomoco

 

 

So what's the plan, stop the bleeding with a stretcher?

[jomoco]

Pretty sure in this instance by the time you have them strapped onto a stretcher they are dead anyway?!?! Surely your time would be better spent trying to pressure/stop the bleed.

 

 

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Do you think using a speedline strap n biner'd make an effective tourniquet.

 

Would you have to twist it till he screamed to stop the blood loss?

 

How many men do you think it takes to haul a 240 lb man around?

 

Jomoco

[treequip]

I speak of nothing I haven't had hands on firsthand experience with mate.

 

To suggest preparedness to deal with chainsaw cuts promptly's not critical in this biz strikes me as bloody hilarious. Particularly the part about it not being applicable to the UK.

 

Jomoco

 

So how would you deal with it? maybe get one of your special ops trained ninja mates in

 

You are absolutely full of it

[jomoco]

So how would you deal with it? maybe get one of your special ops trained ninja mates in

 

You are absolutely full of it

 

Experience with trees n chainsaws?

 

Yeah, 43 years of it.

 

Not in the UK of course, the trees are far too big there for a little bloke like me.

 

Jomoco

[Mark Bolam]

We carry one of these.

Doesn't help with the bleeding, but you can get the body buried quick-smart and head off to the local college to get another.

 

 

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[Mat]

You mean like pumping blood from a femoral artery being nicked?

 

Quick, call 911, our trusty EMT's will arrive within seconds, long before this poor bloke bleeds out. After all, this is the UK!

 

What!

 

Jomoco

 

Yeah, that's kinda how we roll......

 

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