health and safety
I have chosen these responses safety, security, seeking help, serious injuries and alerting for help and have them in this order because they are in order of top priority to help the casualty who has been hit by a car outside the residential care home. I chose to have safety as top priority response as it is really important that the casualty and your safety is the number one priority in dealing with the accident if it is on a dangerous and busy road for example. I then chose to have security as the next response in helping with the casualty who has had the accident, as if you don’t keep the casualties belongs safe you may not be able to get in contact with the casualties family to alert them to what has happened to their family member. The next response I chose for this particular accident was seeking help because if you don’t the casualty is at risk of not surviving if you don’t make the call to ambulance service if the casualty has life threatening injuries that have been sustained in the accident. I have chosen seeking help as the next top response as first aid can only do so much to help them with their injuries and they will emergency medical help, so it’s important to call the relevant security and health professionals such as ambulance, fire services, doctor etc. I chose serious injuries as the next response as if they have serious neck or back injuries you can’t move them as it will make the injury worse and they may sustain more from you moving them, so it is important that you don’t move them but leave them where they are until an emergency service has arrived and they can take over. The last response I chose for this particular accident was alerting family members this is important because if the casualty has sustained serious injuries which have caused them to then die at the scene or later in hospital it is important that family members are alerted that there has been an accident involving their family member so that they can then get to the hospital