Posted By Jim Walker Stuart, Maybe your company has an attitude problem, by that I mean an attitude to First Aid provision, obviously the incentives are not attractive enough. If your Risk Assessment outcome indicates you need X First Aiders, then they MUST be in place including enough to cover absences. You can’t just shrug your shoulders and say we can’t get the staff. If your management could be persuaded that the provision of adequate qualified First Aid cover was as an important a business consideration as say, having qualified bean counters, then the incentives necessary to make people volunteer would soon appear. In my experience, they don’t need much; my biggest problem is choosing maybe two or three from a pool of twenty applicants and explaining my decision to those who don’t make it.

Posted By Marcus Pereira Try asking mothers with children and keen sportsmen / women. They seem to see the out-of-work benefits far outweigh the chance of having to do any first aid in work! Good luck

Posted By Richard Forster Why not write it into the job description of the next post you advertise?