Hi All,

As we have more and more staff working from home, the daily challenge of finding out which first aiders and fire wardens are available is becoming huge. We have 17 offices with varying numbers of staff across all of them (the biggest one we have 500). There has been no guidance issued by the HSE and I do not believe this has even been considered.

With the schools being closed next week there will be even less staff in the offices, but there will be some due to some of our services not being able to work remotely. Am thinking of telling staff to self-evacuate and that due to lack of first aid provsion they would almost need to become an 'appointed person' and call emergency services themselves; all floors have first aid boxes.

Would this be compliant? we are a low risk office, however we will have more than 25 in some offices which means there should be at least one EFAW and for our bigger offices on some days there may be more than 50 (meaning we should have at least one FAW)

What is everyone else doing during these strnage times?

Thank you in advance

Leone

Well look at it this way - you can hardly expect to get any new first aiders trained at the moment.

Thank you for your responses - we do not need anyone to be trained, we have more than enough trained first-aiders but we just cannot keep a track of where they are working each day (we are a large diverse workforce) especially with a lot of people WFH and the numbers flucuating daily. We've decided to do what i first suggested and remind staff where the first aid boxes are and to be 'self appointed' - most of our offices are in very large towns so the risk is low.

Have a nice weeekend