Start a workplace fitness club to promote exercise, share fitness goals, and encourage others. Emily Stewart, a paramedic in Central Wisconsin, contributed these Everyday EMS Tips for how she helped start the Gold Cross Ambulance Heart Starters fitness club. 1. We wanted to support a co-worker who was attempting to lose a lot of weight. […]
Category: Firefighting
New web TV series features the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Fire Department in its first episode. Visit http://www.thebattalion.tv to watch. Learn more about the filming process in an article in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal newspaper.
June is National Safety Month. Find materials to promote on-the-job and off-the-job safety from the National Safety Council. The themes for National Safety Month are: Teen Driving Fall Prevention Over Exertion Distracted Driver Everyday EMS Tips for promoting safety include:
June 1 is the official start of the hurricane weather season. All residents of Hurricane prone areas should do these things: Get a kit Make a family emergency plan Be informed Learn more about preparedness at the Ready.gov website. Everyday EMS Tips for emergency responders that live and work in Hurricane prone areas:
A while back Steve Whitehead wrote a great post for the EMTSpot.com that explained five things that he felt made an ideal partner. This prompted me to ask, “What do you do if you get teamed up with a bad partner?” This is Steve’s response and Everyday EMS Tips for making it through the day […]
Nearly 2000 eye injuries occur everyday in the United States. EMS providers are at risk of eye injury from blood and other body fluids, fine and large particulates, splashes from liquid medications and other chemicals, and other forms of trauma. According to NIOSH even minor eye injuries can lead to lifelong vision problems. To prevent […]
Nearly 2,000 eye injuries occur every day in the United States. EMS providers and other emergency responders are at risk of eye contamination or injury from: blood and other body fluids fine and large particulates splashes from liquid medications and other chemicals other forms of blunt or penetrating trauma According to NIOSH, even minor eye […]
According to the Electrical Safety Foundation International, “Over the last 10 years, more than 46,000 workers were injured from on-the-job electrical hazards. These types of injuries are not isolated to any one industry or one field of work. It could happen to anyone when they least expect it.” Electrical injuries including electrical burns and electrical […]
The CDC recently tweeted (@cdchep) 24 facts about Hepatitis. Wednesday May 20 was World Hepatitis Day. Worldwide one in twelve people are living with hepatitis. EMS providers are at high risk for exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials. Therefore it is important to know these facts about hepatitis.
Cyanide poisoning is a high risk to victims and emergency responders to fire incidents. Hydrogen cyanide, as well as other toxins, are released as byproducts of combustion in smoke. Cyanide causes asphyxiation by displacing oxygen. The Cyanokit is a product approved for use in the United States for paramedic administration to known or suspected cyanide […]