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Welcome Our Respected Readers,

We often come up to situations where we regret why I decided to participate in this training session or even we analyze that this training didn’t proved to be worth for me. But very less often we prepared ourselves before the upcoming training session for ideas, questions and sketch our plan how to go for course and setting an objective to meet after this training.

Today, we will look into this that how someone can chalk his pre-training plan and focus to be an effective participant who ends in great learning session.

Do you have any question(s)?

No. Why not? How come you are coming to attend a training session and you don’t have any question in mind? Your surely have but you didn’t consider it worth to write it before going to class you don’t miss it during the class. So often participant don’t write their question well before the training session and think they can get maximum from the session because they think they are very attentive and nobody can be 100% attentive during the whole session. I am not wrong it is proved with the help of independent research studies that people often lost attentiveness and their conscious mind if they listen or see something (someone) for longer than 3 minutes. Hence, we may lost what we want to ask so why not to write the questions in your mind before going to real training.

 Do you listen carefully?

Try hard to get the other persons point of view. Don’t accept ideas which seem unsound but remember: on almost every question there are several points of view. So be patience, listen carefully and learn from the experiences of other participants as well.

Don’t monopolize. Do you?

Don’t speak for more than 1 to 2 minutes or so at a time. Make your point in a few words, then give someone else a chance. Don’t make a speech as others may involve into longer discussion and main topic is left behind (a good trainer or instructor will never let this happen).

Don’t shy and why now when you have already decided once to learn/practice!

Don’t let yourself discourage from asking questions. If you didn’t understand, say so. Ask questions and remember: “my strength is made perfect in weakness.”

Disagree but in a friendly manner.

If you didn’t like any idea or comment or thinking of trainer or any other participants from class then it is good to say so but in a friendly manner. Avoid win-loss contests as I have heard that “attitudes are contagious” and you don’t want to be everyone in the class to be in a same role so disagree in a friendly manner.

“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it”.

Being a volunteer student is much of learning experience.     

If there is a need of volunteer in class for demonstration of any technique then you should be the first to grab the opportunity. It could be very good learning experience. Give yourself more and more chances to learn directly from the instructor.

How you plan for lunch session during trainings?

Are you one of those who take care of public relations more than their lunch? If not then it is really good but eat wisely as the session after the lunch may be very sleepy or difficult to pay attention on lectures. Now it is the time to change your seat, make new neighbors and change the seating position as well as angle. Tell this to instructor of class before doing this and tell him the reason.

When this training session will end?

The training session will only end for you when you ask yourself, “what I have learnt and how much I have contributed in the course?” Now if you are satisfied with the answer of your question and your colleagues can notice the change then you can, you can’t relax as you have to share your experience with them, but you consider yourself a winner.

In the end remember only one thing before going to any training session, “failure to plan is planning to fail”.

To Your Success,

Faisal Javed Mir

http://firstaidtosavealife.com

Respected Readers,

We hope that you are finding our posts regularly and we will do our best to continue this service to you. Today we would like to share with you the results of an independent survey conducted in the United States of America. The survey was conducted by Harris Interactive® on the usefulness of first aid kits/cabinets in workplaces.

This telephone based survey was conducted in March-April this year targeting the adults and older. 68 percent of those surveyed said they would be more productive at work if provided access to a first aid kit or cabinet.

The senior director of the company said that the results of this survey has put more emphasis on the first aid kits/cabinets and largely related it to the overall productivity as well. He further stated that the increasing number of absences due to employee illness further makes the case for on-site first aid kits or cabinets in the workplace. He further added that ensuring that employees are equipped with the first aid supplies necessary to combat minor illness and injury in the workplace is essential to maximizing productivity and reducing costs for businesses.

Survey results included these:

• 88 percent of those surveyed agreed employers should be required to provide a first aid kit or cabinet at each office or workplace;
• 74 percent of employed adults think employers should be required to provide at least one at each work site.

The common cold is the leading cause of missed workdays, resulting in an average loss of 8.7 work hours per cold episode, which cited for the estimated economic cost of lost business productivity due to the common cold as approaching $25 billion, most of which is attributed to on-the-job productivity loss.

I would like to mention one example from my personal experience where employer was keen to distribute helmets and personal first aid kits to their employees in every Friday meeting based on their inputs of hazard identification reports in a week time. I have observed remarkable improvement in their employee's approach towards personal safety through this incentive program. I hope someone may want to implement this idea in their company as well.

Also, see our earlier post on “Summary of achievements of first 10 years of 21st century” as well.

Note: This post is only posted on HSE People and not yet posted on our website. This will be released Sunday, June 19, 2011 on our website.

To Your Success,

Faisal Javed Mir

First Aid to Save a Life Pakistan 

Welcome Our Respected Readers,

First Aid to Save a Life Pakistan is doing their best to create an awareness on Sudden Cardiac Arrest and AED programs at masses level in Pakistan. Due to the lack of information and deficiencies in regulations, organizations don’t intent to follow or adopt to a current or upcoming situations where physically they don’t see losses as they don’t have proactive approach and only favors reactive management. But First Aid to Save a Life Pakistan will continue with the same courage and spirit but with more coordinated and well esteemed professionals to pass on the message, what Sudden Cardiac Arrest is and why AED program is necessary or how it can prove to be beneficial for companies and their workforce.

We will say a lot with more details on this but at the moment we would like to collect some facts to plan our future actions and will appreciate your kind participation in our survey.

Because the survey poll can not be merged here into this post, you are requested to visit below link to cast your vote to help us gather true data to work on.

Survey on SCA and AED

To Your Success,

Faisal Javed Mir

Respected Readers,

With the approach of summer, different health and safety organizations release some precautionary alerts on hyperthermia. In our today’s post we will throw some light on it.

Summer can bring heat waves with unusually high temperatures that last for days and sometimes weeks. We very often forget about children, those may be at risk during hot weather as it is heightened for children left alone in vehicles. Hyperthermia (heat-stroke) is the leading cause of non-crash vehicle deaths for children under the age of fourteen. As there are no regulated facts available in Pakistan so very often we don’t come up with preparation about these things because we were never told by city, provincial or federal governmental organizations about the health related statistics and we are less fortune that not a large number of independent NGOs are working in this regard those record such events and tell us some facts so we prepare ourselves in time and educate people around us where we live and work.

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human being can ALTER his LFIE by ALTERING his ATTITUDE.”

Excessive heat may injure the skin or deeper tissues, and in extreme cases, may so upset the working of the body that death may ensue.

Our bodies work most efficiently within a normal temperature range of 36-37° C (97-99° F) In order to keep a level temperature the body must retain heat when the environmental temperature is cold and lose heat when it becomes hot.

Body heat is under the control of a temperature control centre (“thermostat”), situated at the base of the brain, which automatically adjusts the mechanisms that keep the balance between heat loss and heat gain. This word is made up of “hyper” (high) and “thermia” from the Greek word “thermes” which is heat.

The proactive organizations do realize what can affect their workforce and issue health alerts to avoid such incidents in their workplaces. Hyperthermia can be one of the subject on which earlier health alert can be shared with workforce and as global warming is increasing so more unusual and extreme weathers can pose some serious health risks to workforce.

Faisal Javed Mir