Two-day Field First Aid Course - Rhone-Alps
For humanitarians working in remote, hazardous and/or hostile environments.
Course objective: Participants will be able to safely manage, stabilise & evacuate a serious casualty with minimal equipment.
The location of the Gite Bolozon, venue for the course
Set in a farmhouse in the southern Jura mountains, the course includes theory, practice & realistic simulations in a near-by former POW camp.
Contents: Basic first aid, safety, rapid trauma survey, treatment of blunt + penetrating trauma, blast injuries, burns, fractures, falls, spinal, head, chest and abdominal injury, management of motor vehicle and mine accidents, control of major bleeding.
Plus, psychological first aid focusing on peer support in the first 48-hours post critical incident. Basic tropical medicine and well-being is also included.
Course fee £220 (euro-255, CHF 376) includes full board (shared, clean accomodation, gourmet chef) + all materials (add £35 for pick up and return if coming from Geneva).
Date: 23-24 March 2010 in Cize-Bolozon, Ain, Rhone Alps. Train to Villereversure, Ain or plane/train to Geneva (CH).
For more information, visit us on the web at www.Humanitrain.com or contact Catherine Plumridge on +33603925488 or catherineplumridge@humanitrain.com
Training is done through field simulations, theory, practical exercises as well as e-training as a follow-up tool available in late 2010.
Modules bespoke and otherwise include the following specialist areas:
Security
Catherine near the West Bank Barrier in Bethlehem. 2005 UNWRA
One, two or three or four day specialist course with a combination of the following, according to specific needs.
- Security - prevention and planning, establishment and maintenance of a safe environment
- Context analysis
- Threat analysis
- Networking and handling perceptions
- Conflict management/resolution, handling potentially violent interpersonal confrontation
- Negotiation
- Incident and kidnapping survival and hibernation
- Crisis management
- Communication
- Evacuation
- Sexual aggression
- Mob violence
- Mine and unexploded ordnance awareness
Israeli Defense Force, Baqa gate, oPt 2005. C Plumridge
Sexual health education for Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) South Sudan 1999. GOAL
Safety
Humanitrain - solutions for safety
- Mission preparation
- Site and residence security (health and safety)
- Vehicle security, Field trip planning
- Personal safety
- Checkpoints
- Safety at distribution
Northern Badakhshan, Afghanistan. D. Gilmore 1997
Rostaq earthquake zone, Afghanistan. 1998 C. Plumridge
First Aid
- One day basic Field First Aid course (with adjuncts for medical teams) this is specially adapted to hostile, hazardous and difficult environments.
- Three day standard British Health and Safety Executive approved course
- One day British Health and Safety Executive approved refresher course
Palestine Red Crescent Society ambulance accessing restricted area of H2, Hebron, West Bank. Photo by C. Plumridge
Bashar, a medic trained by Merlin (Catherine) in Faizabad, Northern Afghanistan 1998. Photo by Tony Taylor
Catherine training Sudanese Traditional Birth Attendants in Bar el Ghazal, South Sudan. 1999. GOAL
Oral polio vaccination, Northern Afghanistan 1998. Photo Tony Taylor
Well-being
- Enhancing resilience among aid workers
- Health and wellness promotion
- Basics in tropical disease management
- Health risks in all environments from high altitude to remote locations
- Self-care
- Organisational stress prevention
- Psychological vulnerabilities and risks for humanitarian workers
- Stress reduction techniques
- Critical incident stress management (CISM) Debriefing, Peer support, first forty-eight hours
Manut and Catherine South Sudan. Goal
Measles vaccination, Rostaq earthquake zone 1998. Photo Tony Taylor