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First aid and emergency response guidance for Ireland — CPR, choking, burns, AED use, and what to do in the first critical minutes before help arrives.
Someone goes in. The water closes over them. You have roughly 90 seconds before unconsciousness, and maybe four minutes before brain death begins. That is the window. Everything else is paperwork. Ireland has more water...
A tree surgeon drops from a branch. A groundworker stops moving beside a fence line. You are ten metres away and your instinct is to run straight to them. That instinct could kill you. Electric shock casualties in...
Open the first-aid kit in most Irish workplaces and you'll find plasters, a triangular bandage, and some out-of-date antiseptic wipes. That kit was designed for a different era, and it shows every time a worker loses...
Caustic soda does not wait for a supervisor to arrive. It keeps burning through tissue for as long as it stays in contact with skin, and the difference between a recoverable injury and a life-changing one is often...
A worker is seriously injured on a large construction site. Within an hour, the scene has been disturbed, witnesses have moved, and the physical evidence that explains exactly what happened is already degrading. That...
Seconds count. With crush injuries and traumatic amputations, they count in a way that most workplace emergencies do not. Ireland has seen too many of these incidents recently. Farm machinery, construction equipment,...
A severe bleed can kill in three to five minutes. The ambulance is not arriving in three minutes. That is the gap. That gap is where people die. Ireland's National Ambulance Service targets an eight-minute response for...