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The 147 Emergency Service provides additional emergency support, information and value added services to all Vodacom customers. The operator of the 147 call centre will stay on line with the customer in an emergency situation and make sure that the call is successfully routed to the police, fire brigade, ambulance, traffic, medical and/or roadside assistance services. Standard call rates apply. Vodacom customers have the option to subscribe to the “147 Plus” service and pay a fixed monthly fee. This provides the customer with free medical assistance, including a 24 hour medical advice helpline, as well as 24 hour emergency-medical advice and information hotline 24 hours per day. Free medical transportation and other free medical services are also included. The “147 Peace-of-mind service”, charged at a monthly subscription fee is also an option. This services includes all the value added services provided as per the “147 Plus” service. In addition, customers also get free roadside assistance when needing help with a flat tyre, flat battery, even when a customer has been in a car accident they will provide vehicle assistance. This service also provides a home service programme for emergency situations, access to legal and tax experts with the as well as worldwide travel assistance access programme.
ICE (In Case of Emergency) is an international concept which allows emergency service personnel to obtain the contact information of family or friends of a person in an emergency situation, through accessing “ICE” on the person’s cellphone address book. With ICE, paramedics will be able to notify your family or friends immediately, by accessing your information, rather than going through an entire address book guessing who to phone. Paramedics know what ICE means and they look for it straight away. MTN MTN has provided information on the benefits offered through the mobility of cellular phones. These include
Conference calling allows you to connect with up to five other people at the same time. All participants in a Conference Call can talk to the other participants and hear each other clearly. It is useful for conducting meetings telephonically or to communicate with a group of people at the same time.
Road users who are lost and needing help reaching their destination will benefit from this service. Anywhere in SA, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week MTN Directions 22522 will be on hand just dial 22522.
This is a service for publicly listed numbers and is available 24 hours, 7 days a week. Dial 200 and speak to the operator. For Call Connect, ask the operator to connect you to the number of your choice.
This service is available 24 hours, 7 days a week, i.e. a crisis centre for police, ambulance, fire brigade and a poison centre. 112 calls are routed directly to MRI (Medical Rescue International) which operates throughout SA. Calls to 112 are free of charge.
This provides a reliable wakeup call and might assist the road users in planning his trip and avoiding the dangers of speeding when not on time!
This service provides daily weather updates for each of the eleven regions in SA. CPR and Road Safety – Know more and Save Lives!! What is CPR? Definition: An emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation) is a life saving emergency response technique. Performing CPR pumps oxygen-rich blood into the heart and brain. It can prevent brain damage and may save a life. Few road users however know this technique and have only seen this administered, often incorrectly on television and the movies. How can I learn to perform lifesaving CPR? The best way to learn CPR is to attend a CPR class presented by an accredited medical institution or emergency response provider. CPR is a skill both to be learnt, practiced and regularly updated. What are the Basic Steps of CPR? The Basic Steps are easy to remember - When you get to a scene, and you find an emergency situation, follow these 3 basic steps: CHECK , CALL , CARE Step 1: Check First, you should check the scene, for safety and then later on you'll check the victim. When you check the scene you want to make sure that it's safe for both you and the victim. Do not put your own life in danger and become a victim yourself! What do you need to check for? When you are assessing the scene, also make a note of the following:
Now you can check the victim. Find out if they are unconscious. The best way to find out if the victim is conscious is to talk to them. Tap them on their shoulder and shout and see if they respond to you. Step 2: Call If they are unconscious or under any other life threatening conditions, you should automatically call one of the Emergency response numbers Step 3: Care It is most important to remember the ABC of Care A is for airway B is for breathing C is for circulation. Step 4: A for Airway To open the airway, tilt the head back, lift the chin and look, listen, and feel for up to ten seconds. This way you can tell if a person is breathing. 
Step 5: B for Breathing If there is no breathing, go to the "B" step, which involves administering two rescue breaths into the person's mouth. Tilt the head back, pinch the nose, lift the chin and give two breaths ensuring that a tight seal in made around their mouth with yours. Those breaths are about 1 second long. If the breaths go in, look towards the victim’s chest while administering the rescue breaths, you will notice the chest rise, that tells you that there is no blockage. Look over the victim's body and see if there's any bleeding, and if so you need to put pressure on the site so as to stop the bleed. If there is a second rescuer or bystander, get them to hold a sturdy amount of pressure on the wound. Then, begin CPR. If the breaths did not go in try again, you may not have maintained a good seal the first time, if the breaths still do not go in, the victim's airway is obstructed. Follow the steps for Unconscious Choking. 
Step 6: Check Pulse Pulse check is no longer done for adults. However, one should check the pulse of children and infants. For children, check the pulse on the side of the neck. For infants, check the pulse on the middle of the inside of the arm, between the elbow and the shoulder. Step 7: C For Circulation Check the pulse and breathing, and act accordingly. If there is a pulse and breathing, place them on their side in the recovery position. Step 8: Rescue Breathing If there is a pulse but no breathing, breathe for the victim. They do not require compressions - only breaths. So do what is called "rescue breathing". Give one breath every 5 seconds, and give 24 breaths in about 2 minutes. At the end of two minutes, stop to re-check the pulse and breathing again, and decide how to proceed. Step 9: CPR If the victim had no pulse / no breathing, perform CPR. CPR is a combination of compressions and breaths and it serves to let oxygenated blood throughout the entire body. It keeps the brain and other vital organs alive, until advanced emergency personnel can take over. When we do CPR, we're going to do 30 compressions and 2 breaths and we're going to do them five times every 2 minutes. For CPR for a child, you can use two hands, but if you're dealing with a very small child, you probably want to do a one-handed technique. The one-handed technique involves putting one hand on the center of the chest and the other on the forehead. Keep that airway open and put your shoulders directly over the victim's chest and keeping your arms straight. Compress down one to one and a half inches as you do your compressions. Count out loud while doing the compressions: one and two and three and four… Ensuring that you compress the victims chest at least 2/3 of the width of the chest. Remember to keep your hands placed on the victims chest on the breastbone at the level of the nipples. 
Step 10: Stopping CPR Once you begin CPR, do not stop to recheck. Continue without stopping, until you see signs of life, another trained person takes over, a defibrillator is ready to be used, the scene becomes unsafe, or you are too exhausted to continue. Step 11: Recovery If the victim shows signs of life, recheck their airway and breathing, and if they are breathing, place them in the recovery position with the stomach to the ground and the head to the side, resting on their arm. Escaping from a Submerged Vehicle The need to escape from a sinking vehicle is a rarity. According to available data less than one-half of 1 percent of all auto crashes involve submersion. Yet, it does happen, and we need to ask the question whether we would be able to survive such an experience? With enough know-how, survival is definitely possible and we need to equip motorists with information that will enable them to survive. Motorists seldom have to confront a bridge collapsing underneath them and the risks are more often associated with cars driving off quay-sides or into rivers. Also included are problems that arise when the parking brake isn't applied properly with cars simply rolling down embankments into lakes or rivers. More common occurrences include being swept off the road in a flash flood as a result of a natural disaster. It is important to acknowledge that not all experts agree on all the survival tips and the precise sequence of escape - but there are some common threads that need to be identified and learnt from. On balance, it seems that the best course of action is to try and get out as soon as possible. What to expect from a sinking vehicle?
Basic Survival Tips 1. Staying calm
2. Seatbelt
3. Opening windows / doors
Equip yourself with a few necessities
Golden safety rules
Firearms, Accidents and Road Safety Introduction/ Background to Firearm Safety Too many people die daily in firearm accidents. The Arrive Alive website is well aware of the many firearm incidents to which our paramedics have to respond –and has decided to share safety advice and suggestions with our road users. It is interesting to note that some 90 million people in the United States have an estimated 200 million guns. Gun deaths in the United States average about 80 a day, 34 of them homicides, according to U.S. government statistics. With safety from crime a very important consideration for South Africans, many have become firearm owners and are transporting firearms in their vehicles. We would like to assist in creating safety awareness about firearms both when on and away from our roads! We would like to include some rules and recommendations that can be applied when handling firearms. The purpose of this section is to eliminate or minimize the risks of unintentional death, injury or damage caused by improper handling of firearms. Fundamentals of Firearm Safety The Fundamentals of Firearm Safety
Contributing factors to Firearm Accidents Before offering safety suggestions about firearm usage, we need to investigate firearm accidents and identify the contributing factors to these accidents:
*Faulty handling of the firearm. A handler may execute the steps of procedures such as loading, firing and emptying in the wrong order or omit steps of the procedures. * Misunderstandings about a firearm's status. For instance, a handler may think the safety is on when it is not. A round of ammunition may be in the chamber or in the magazine while the handler thinks it is empty. A handler may receive a firearm and assume it is in a certain state without checking whether that assumption is true. Yüklə 0,56 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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