Good morning fellow practitioners.

I am in the process of dedveloping a Risk Assesssment for dealing with medical emergencies in the workplace and the control measures to be implemented to keep First Aiders and indeed the I.P., safe from the Covid-19 virus during treatment.

We can all identify the usual such as PPE, cleaning regime for medical treatment rooms and having a second First Aider available to implement the 15 minute guideline etc.

Has anyone developed one already that identifies anything ourside the norm that could be of help?

Understandably this is a trying time ofr all safety people and trying to combat an unseen "enemy" has its own problems.

Keep Safe out these.

It's already part of first aider training that giving mouth to mouth is optional, and can be omitted at the first aider's discretion, with only the compressions being vital.

A standard first aid kit does however include a protective device through which to give mouth to mouth.

So to my mind the mouth to mouth risk is already covered within the norm.

You will probably be aware of the resus org guidance below...not sure about the face shields and masks as we all still use them routinely...feature in your risk assessment response time and age etc...happy to peer revuew if you like as I have done a few ;)

https://www.resus.org.uk/media/statements/resuscitation-council-uk-statements-on-covid-19-coronavirus-cpr-and-resuscitation/covid-community/