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Hero teacher performs CPR at school concert Taken from the Enfield Indedpendent newspaper 29th July 2010 A TEACHER is being hailed a hero for helping save the life an elderly man who stopped breathing during a school concert. Physics teacher Barry Berndes, 50, sprang into action at Latymer School’s end of year Gala on July 14, helping to resuscitate 67-year-old member of the audience after he suffered a heart attack and stopped breathing for ten minutes. The elderly man, who was accompanying the grandparent of a 14-year-old girl who was performing in the concert, had collapsed in a gallery in the school hall after telling his companion he was feeling unwell and was going outside to get some fresh air. With the music of the Pixar film The Incredibles still playing in the background, Mr Berndes, started giving the man CPR. He had returned from a first aid course just six weeks before, and succeeded in starting his breathing for a short time before it stopped again. He said: “Very soon after I found him he was unconscious and not breathing. He was looking quite blue, but I thought well I will do what I have been trained to do. "The paramedics had to shock him three times but apparently he was conscious when I went home at 10.30pm. "Apparently he had come to look after a grandparent who was old and frail and then himself had this massive heart attack. He lives on his own, so I was thinking if he had had the attack there he would probably be dead.” Thanks to the teacher’s efforts, the Haselbury Road School has now bought a defibrillator, which costs about £2,000, and will train ten members of staff to use it in September. About 15 members of staff are already trained in first-aid, while all its Year 9 pupils are sent on a first aid course. Mr Berndes, who has been at the school for 27 years and is also a football referee, said: “I think a lot of public buildings should have them. They are easy to use and can save lives. “People say you are such a hero, but I am just grateful I was in the right place at the right time and knew what to do.” Dave Simpson, managing director of STS Complete Health and Safety, the company which provided Mr Berndes’ training, said: “The man’s life was saved due to good first aid and the fact the ambulance was called so quickly. If a defibrillator can get to an unconscious patient within three minutes the chance of survival goes up to 75 per cent.”

30/7/2010

School First Aid faces sack after Death First aider faces sack after death Sam Linton, 11, from Stockport, Cheshire, died following an asthma attack at school A first aider is facing the sack after a schoolboy died following an asthma attack at school, it has emerged. Eleven-year-old Sam Linton died after having the attack at Offerton High School in Stockport, Cheshire, in December 2007. An inquest into his death ruled that staff, who left him sitting in a corridor struggling to breathe and failed to call an ambulance, "significantly contributed" to his death. Five members of staff were suspended following the inquest in March, and one of these - first aider Deborah Bouckley - now faces dismissal. Her pay was stopped as soon as the decision was made by governors at the school. It is understood she plans to appeal. Three other members of staff have been issued with formal warnings, Stockport Council confirmed. These include Janet Ford, the teacher who was supervising Sam when he became ill, and two student services assistants. The fate of headteacher Evelyn Leslie will be decided in September, a council spokesman said. Sam, of Dalby Grove, Offerton, died following a catalogue of errors when he suffered an asthma attack on December 4 2007. By the time his mother Karen was summoned to the school to take him to hospital his lips were turning blue. The youngster died a few hours later in Stepping Hill Hospital. An inquest heard he was seen wheezing and using his inhaler at school. But staff failed to dial 999 and told him to sit in a corridor. The jury ruled Sam's death was by natural causes but significantly contributed to by neglect on an "individual and systemic level

26/7/2010

First Aid Guidelines First aid guidelines in the UK have been revised and improved over the past few months after extensive scientific reviews. The new guidelines are designed to make simplify First aid procedures and make them more accessible to a wider audience. The current techniques are still effective, but STS First Aid promote the most current techniques to keep us at the forefront of First Aid Training. Changes affect primarily CPR and choking, but there are other aspects that are also developing. Please feel free to contact us with regards to the new protocols and techniques and discuss and questions you may have with regards to the latest First Aid developments. Have you tried the new CPR - What are your thoughts? Email us and let us know Please call us on: 0207 987 1227 or email us on: info@sts-firstaid.co.uk

2/1/2007

	Health and Safety Course We are proud to be able to extend our range of courses to provide the CIEH Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in the workplace. This great course will commence from March 2008. Click here for more information - CIEH LEVEL 2 Health and Safety
	23/2/2008

Important changes to First Aid Courses CHANGES IN FIRST AID TRAINING As from 1st October 2009 there are going to be changes to First Aid at Work Training. There will be 2 Courses for First Aiders at Work. 1. FIRST AID AT WORK. Comprehensive Course that covering everything you need to know to be a First Aider in your place of Work, especially if there are many Employees or High Risk areas. This Course, traditionally run over 4 Days or 24 hours, will now require a minimum 18 hours training and will be run over a minimum of 3 Days instead of 4. 2. EMERGENCY FIRST AIDER at WORK Suitable to low risk environments and Companies with few Staff This new Course will last 6 hours (1 Day) and will result in an HSE Approved certificate.

23/7/2009