Medical Emergencies in the Workplace: Those First Crucial Minutes

Training employees to respond correctly to a medical emergency in the workplace is the purpose of this video. Why should you take the time to teach emergency first-aid procedures to your employees? Because 2,000,000 people are injured on the job every year. Many die or are permanently disabled because the first ones to respond aren’t prepared to help the victim. This video, which was written in conjunction with the American College of Emergency Physicians (Dallas, Texas), will show your employees how to respond to a medical emergency. It is no substitute for formal medical first-aid training. In fact, one of the goals of this program is to get people to see the importance of knowing first aid so that they’ll enroll in first-aid or cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) courses on their own.

NOTE: We suggest that you view "Medical Emergencies in the Workplace" (approximately 20 min.) before showing it to your audience; however, if time doesn’t permit you to do this, reading Section I of the leader’s guide will let you know what to expect. It outlines the video, emphasizing appropriate emergency response procedures to specific accidents. You’ll find it helpful when someone asks you a questions during the discussion period. Section II gives you a discussion format to follow. It also provides you with an introduction you can read to your group and questions you can use to lead your discussion. On the back page, you’ll find a Viewer Log that can be used to keep track of the dates on which "Medical Emergencies in the Workplace" is shown and who the participants are.

¾ inch videocassette – 20 min.
½ inch VHS videocassette – 20 min.

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