RCO first aid training

[toffe wrapper]

Does anyone know the level of training required for RCO's and first aid.

TW

[ovenpaa]

As far as I know there is no requirement for RCO's to have any formal first aid training.

[Steve E]

As far as I am aware there is no level of first aid training required for RCOs. Some MOD ranges may require the users (civilian) of said range to provide their own first aid kits and that there is a first aid trained person on hand when live firing is being conducted. It should all be in the RASP if you use MOD ranges.

[Alpha1]

There is no requirement for (RCO)Range Conducting officers to be trained in first aid. I don't know if it is a requirement for the Club shooting on MOD ranges to have a trained first aid person.
My main Club 90% of the members including my self are (NRA) National Rifle Association Range Conduction Officers.
We take it in turn to run ranges. The club sponsors any body who is interested in becoming a range conducting officer. The club asked for volunteers to attend first aid training courses and paid for them to go. We have a very comprehensive first aid kit that goes with us on any shoot we attend. Along with our field kitchen. :shakeshout:

[IainWR]

Users of MoD Ranges are required to provide First Aid cover. The RCO should not be doing this - he is in overall charge of any incident. The standard of First Aid required is MATT3 / 1. I understand that a number of people seeking MoD range Licences may have been told this. The NRA discussed this at a meeting on Friday, and it is now the weekend.

We have asked for a definition of the equivalent civilian qualification. I can tell you that Matt3 / 1 stands for Military Annual Training Task 3 Level 1, and from my own military service (about 27 years with the Search & Rescue Force, who have the best-trained paramedics in the world - you try doing that kind of stuff on a heaving ship in a storm, on a mountain ledge in snow, in the back of a helicopter at night or on the battlefield in Afghanistan - I so admired the skills of my crewmen) I can tell you that if you can do CPR to current standards, know the significance of Airway / Bleeding / Circulation and what to do about them, know where you are in GPS navigation terms and can dial 999, you are ahead of the military game. Unfortunately, it may take some time and effort to get that in writing.

Give me a week or three to get some answers if this has come from military range use licensing. And if it has, please tell me at work.

Iain
iain.robertson@nra.org.uk

[DL.]

Users of MoD Ranges are required to provide First Aid cover. The RCO should not be doing this - he is in overall charge of any incident. The standard of First Aid required is MATT3 / 1. I understand that a number of people seeking MoD range Licences may have been told this. The NRA discussed this at a meeting on Friday, and it is now the weekend.

We have asked for a definition of the equivalent civilian qualification. I can tell you that Matt3 / 1 stands for Military Annual Training Task 3 Level 1, and from my own military service (about 27 years with the Search & Rescue Force, who have the best-trained paramedics in the world - you try doing that kind of stuff on a heaving ship in a storm, on a mountain ledge in snow, in the back of a helicopter at night or on the battlefield in Afghanistan - I so admired the skills of my crewmen) I can tell you that if you can do CPR to current standards, know the significance of Airway / Bleeding / Circulation and what to do about them, know where you are in GPS navigation terms and can dial 999, you are ahead of the military game. Unfortunately, it may take some time and effort to get that in writing.

Give me a week or three to get some answers if this has come from military range use licensing. And if it has, please tell me at work.

Iain
iain.robertson@nra.org.uk

The priority of military casualty care is now CABC as per the Battlefield Advanced Trauma Life Support manual and the Military Acute Care manual.
These instructions prioritise catastrophic bleeding over airways.
In Basic Life Support (BLS) the number of compressions to rescue breaths was also changed to 30:2

[meles meles]

All you need in your first aid kit is an aspirin and an sticking plaster. Treatment is as follows:

1. Pop the aspirin in the bullet hole to plug any catastrophic bleeding.
2. Tape the aspirin in place with the sticking plaster

[Blackstuff]

All you need in your first aid kit is an aspirin and an sticking plaster. Treatment is as follows:

1. Pop the aspirin in the bullet hole to plug any catastrophic bleeding.
2. Tape the aspirin in place with the sticking plaster

Put a blood thinner into a bleeding wound?! clapclap I'm guessing (hoping) you're not your range/clubs first aider? :lol: Everyone knows its a 'female hygiene product you stick in a bullet wound

[shotgun sam]

Just to have HD on your ticket smile2

[meles meles]

Put a blood thinner into a bleeding wound?! clapclap I'm guessing (hoping) you're not your range/clubs first aider?

No, but we do have a vested interest in thinning out bald monkeys...