THE ELIMINATION OF PLASTIC IN THE KITCHEN, HOW TO DO IT ?

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS IN GROUP CATERING AND HEALTH CONSEQUENCES

 

The dangers of mountain rescue

Matthieu Lardiere  

DOES BEING OVERWEIGHT INFLUENCE WORK PERFORMANCE

 

Learn or leave clément FRANCE

   

"Learn or leave" 

(Apprendre ou à laisser)

Clément FRANCE

The significant lack of people trained in first aid. How can we train more?

INTRODUCTION

In first aid, France is lagging far behind. Indeed, only 40% of French people are trained in first aid.

French people, we invite you to join any infrastructure offering training, in order to be trained in first aid.

The next rescuer could be you !

STATISTICS

According to the Ministry of Health and the French Red Cross:

About 24 million French people are trained in first aid.

80% of the German, Austrian, Danish and Icelandic populations are trained in first aid and 90% in some Anglo-Saxon countries.

Around 50,000 people a year suffer a cardiac arrest and only 3% survive.

Today, 8,000 lives could have been saved if people were better trained

If nothing is done before help arrives, the survival rate is only 3% to 4%. This rises to 10% with cardiac massage and up to 50% with a defibrillator.

LEGISLATION

There are no regulations that require first aid training. On the other hand, it is strongly recommended to be trained in order to be able to act as quickly as possible in a situation where first aid is required.

According to article R4224-15 of the Labour Code, a company must have first aiders who have undergone SST training in order to be able to provide first aid in the event of accidents. There is no set amount of OHS in the company, but it is recommended to have 10-15%.

By 2022, the government has set a target to train all third year students in the PSC1 module. This objective is planned so that 80% of the population masters first aid techniques.

HOW CAN WE TRAIN MORE ?

There are many training courses offered by different organisations such as :

1. Fire brigade
2. French Red Cross
3. French White Cross
4. Civil protection

• Make first aid training compulsory during schooling (PSC1).
• Provide more training in sports.
• Continue lifeguard training at work.

Today, new applications have been developed to make all first aid recommendations accessible to all people :

• "The app that saves (French Red Cross)"
• "Staying Alive"

You are trained and you want to save lives, download them and these applications will call you in case of need !

"SAUV Life"

"Staying Alive"

FIRST AID PROCEDURES

It is important to know the theory of first aid, but it is not enough. Indeed, it is necessary to practice and train in order to perform our actions in the best conditions.

The following gestures are only an aid. It is strongly advised to go to a training association in order to practice.

In each situation : Protect - Alert (15 / 18 / 112) - Rescue

  CONCLUSION

First aid training and alternatives exist and are sufficiently numerous, but few volunteers go to the training centres or are interested in them.

Thus, we can see that the problem does not come from the establishments offering these training courses but from the Ministry of the Interior which does not impose at any time the learning of first aid techniques from a certain age. By imposing this training, the population will have the duty to be trained in order to perhaps save lives in their turn. It is therefore necessary to add a decree to the regulatory texts of the Ministry of the Interior.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ministry of the Interior, statutory instruments, 2017 https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Le-ministere/Securite-civile/Documentation- technique/Secourisme-et-associations/Les-textes-reglementaires

French Red Cross, "First aid: training for everyone" https://www.croix-rouge.fr/Nos-actions/Urgence-et-secourisme/Chacun-peut-agir/Secourisme- des-formations-pour-tous

French Republic, Public Life, "Safety: train 80% of the population in life-saving gestures," May 2, 2017 https://www.vie-publique.fr/en-bref/19631-securite-former-80-de-la-population-aux-gestes- qui-sauvent

Franceinfo, January 9, 2020, "First aid: only 20% of French people trained in life-saving techniques" https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/soigner/premiers-secours-seuls-20-des-francais-formes-aux- gestes-qui-sauvent_3777607.html

Psychosocial risks in the police: harassment

 

The police profession exposes its personnel to particular risks, which can have an impact on their mental, physical and social health. Confronted with traumatic situations and violence, police officers experience intense events. The number of attacks against them is increasing. The repetition of traumas or the prolonged exposure to violence weakens the individual and contributes to an increase in the risk of suicide. The wear and tear on police officers and gendarmes is reflected in particular in the need to consult psychologists, in the precariousness of family situations (increase in separations within couples, geographical celibacy ten times higher than in the general population) and sometimes in absenteeism

The police in France ensure the safety of the population on a daily basis. They protect us and maintain public order. Today the police are harassed on a daily basis, both morally and sexually. Insults, violence, inappropriate words, inappropriate gestures... All these actions have devastating consequences for the police. Some police officers commit suicide because they are harassed on a daily basis. We are going to discover the harassment of some police officers. Why is there so much harassment of the police in French society?

Today, police officers are increasingly harassed. Attacks on the national police have more than doubled in twenty years, with more than 85 incidents of "violence against persons in positions of public authority" recorded every day for the national police alone, and it is likely that the figures are still underestimated. Although they are present to defend us, more and more acts of violence and harassment are being recorded. This harassment is first of all moral. Indeed, moral harassment is characterized by the repetition of hostile actions whose purpose or consequence is a deterioration of working conditions likely to affect the dignity, health and professional future of the person.

This harassment takes the form first of all of repeated insults. In the neighbourhoods, this is very frequent. Young people often provoke and attack police officers. When police officers are on patrol in sensitive neighbourhoods, they are never welcome. Threats to police officers on the walls, verbal provocations towards police officers, mockery. The first is mostly expressed from a distance, when a patrol passes by or, more directly, when an arrest goes wrong. Some of these acts sometimes seem to have no consequences. But their repetition on a daily basis can seriously affect police officers and have significant repercussions on their physical and psychological health. These insults can go as far as death threats. In some cases, the harassment goes beyond mere verbal abuse.

Indeed, harassment can also involve violence. These are clearly and consciously acts of a higher level of seriousness. Police officers are often subjected to projectiles, often explained by the discontent of young people in the neighbourhood, for example. This violence is nowadays omnipresent. In fact, there is a disproportionate and uncontrollable hatred of the police. These hostilities can cause a feeling of fear and insecurity among the police. This violence also leads some police officers to resign from their duties.

Police assault

The police will always be there, today as yesterday and even more so tomorrow. They will continue to hunt down criminals to the detriment of the inhabitants who ask for nothing more than to be able to live in peace and security. Action must therefore be taken to avoid this type of action as much as possible.

Sexual harassment is a complex concept to define because it covers a multitude of comments and behaviours and can therefore take very different forms. It is also increasingly present in the police. In addition to harassment by citizens, sexual harassment between police officers exists. It is often hierarchical superiors who are accused of 'remarks' and 'jokes' with 'sexual connotations' and around their personal lives, as well as very serious advances. Unhealthy and misogynistic behaviour on the part of police officers who create a "sexual atmosphere" in the service without ever being called to order by their superiors.

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Faced with these risks, the DGPN and DGGN have adopted a policy of improving the quality of life at work and preventing psychosocial risks for several years

A mobilisation programme against suicide has been in place since May 2018. It aims to: 

• Better respond to the emergency (report, take charge and support) through training efforts (e-training module to raise awareness of the detection and management of people in suicidal crisis), through work with support associations, through psychological support measures...

• Preventing situations of fragility (understanding, detecting situations and developing a shared culture) by implementing an external implementation of an external telephone helpline staffed by psychologists which operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the benefit of police officers and their families to facilitate access to psychological care

    

Being a police officer is a hard job to do on a daily basis. The police must be protected.We must therefore support the police force and use these means of prevention to improve the quality of life and health of police officers in the years to come.

Bibliography

Davie.E. (2014, mars). L'exposition aux risques professionnels dans la fonction publique-Une première analyse par métier à partir de l'enquête SUMER 2009-2010. inrs.com

https://www.inrs.fr/media.html?refINRS=TF%20217 

 

 

Marwan Mohammed, Laurent Mucchielli.(2006, février). La police dans les quartiers populaires : un vrai problème!-Mouvements(no 44), pages 58 à 66. cairn.info

https://www.cairn.info/revue-mouvements-2006-2-page-58.htm 

 

 

 

Guide contre le harcèlement sexuel et agissements sexistes au travail: 

 

 

Prévenir,agir,sanctionner. travail-emploi.gouv.fr

https://travail-emploi.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/30645_dicom_-_guide_contre_harce_lement_sexuel_val_v4_bd_ok-2.pdf 

Three rules to handle the Hazards

 

Blog title: Here are magical tricks for teaching a trainee

the right way to handle appropriately chemical Occupational hazards in the

campus chemical Lab!!

The tricks that I will reveal to you in the following pages are very useful as far as Occupational chemical hazards are concerned. The final purpose of this article is allowing professionals in campuses to safely handle chemical products in their workplace in campus labs.

First of all, it is important to keep in mind that your campus Lab is not a common room like your classroom or your kitchen at home... Your campus Lab is a professional space like a workshop where a great deal of chemical products is manipulated, used or stocked in protected shelves or closed cupboards. 

Secondly, it is also important to bear in mind that manufacturers of chemical products have legal duties delivering freely a Safety Data Sheet (SDS) for any chemical product they sell to other professionals. That sheet contains safety rules for preventing any chemical damage against professional users.

 Nonetheless, I definitely think that it is fundamental for a safe management of Occupational hazards that I insist on the fact that there are chemical products ranged or used in your workplace. Yes, apart from inside the lab, there are some chemical products in the kitchen, in the refectory, in the sport room, and elsewhere in the campus. When your trainee manipulates them iappropriately, such products would be harmful : they could damage their skin. The trainee could expose himself in hight risks of inhaling harmful substances that would attack his piratory organs and gravely damage his health. This is why I would strongly recommend getting precautious about chemicals especially during the internsphip. you would train them to use the Individual Protection Equipment (IPE).

By the way, when the sanitary Board makes a request, article R. 4624-4-4 of the Labor Code imposed to any employer to show the safety data Sheet of the chemical products they are using in the Lab or firm. My purpose in tackling this issue in my blog is to enhance a safe practice concerning chemical Occupational hazards Management in campus laboratories. Chemical substance is not systematically dangerous. However, it becomes so, when it is not handled with appropriate manners. When it enters in our body through the skin, or the other ways such as the breathing or inhalation or ingestion, it mixes with the blood and disperses throughout the body. Finally, it becomes harmful for the vital organs. In addition, chemical hazards damage our environnement through pollution.

             

                        SOURCE : https://osha.europa.eu/en/tools-and-resources/infographics

 From that point, there are several reasons why you should respect accurately the Occupational Exposure Limit Value (OELV[1]) in your workplace.  However, that limit value is different according to domestic regulations of the European Union member countries. If you want useful information about Occupational Exposure Limit Value in France, visit the following link: http://www.inrs.fr/media.html?refINR=outil65.

Furthermore, there is a wide range of useful information on Occupational limit value of European countries in the following website https://osha.europa.eu/fr/themes/dangerous-substances. As I am absolutely sure you are wondering how to appropriately handle the internship of your trainee as far as chemical hazards are concerned, you could find other useful advices at the following link: www.inrs.fr/publications/bdd/biotox; and in this yearly published guide entitled Guide to Occupational Exposure values, ACGIH. Your can find this useful document by typing its title in a research website such as google.

If you want to know the OELV of any given chemical substance, you would find that information in the eighth rubric of the safety data Form. By the way, you might find instructions about occupational exposure by inhalation in the norm NF EN 689: Occupational chemical exposures.

I mentioned early that great quantities of items containing chemical products are stocked in your Lab Campus. You have to understand that such items should not be stocked like any common items. When you don’t take particular precautions in putting in place a safe stockage strategy, your lab could explode making your trainee fly away in great speed to the skies before the end of the internship.

I am sure that you want to get the magical trick that would help you avoid such mischief., you might absolutely know that all chemical products are not compatible with one another. Therefore, when you keep stocking together conflicting chemical products, there will be explosions and fires in your Lab. So, before putting in place any plan of receiving new delivery of items, you should smartly read and understand rubrics seven, nine and ten of the SDS of all the new items you are receiving. You should also undertake preventive actions limiting damages in case of fire of explosion of your lab. For that purpose, you should put in place airing by aspiration devices so that pure air could be permanently renewed inside your campus Lab.

 If you want to get additional helpful information about safe manipulation and stockage of your chemical substances while your trainee is with you in your Lab, read the following documents in French from the National Institute of Research and Safety (NIRS):

-       ED 6015 Le stockage des produits chimiques au laboratoire

-       ED 753 Stockage et transfert des produits dangereux.

You could easily find and download these two papers and many others about Occupational safety and Occupational chemical hazards from the website of the NIRS.

In summary, reading this blog enables anyone to manage safely hazards related to chemical substances and products. The main rule to keep in mind is to have a comprehensive chemical Occupational hazard management. That management starts from putting in place an efficient airing system, and reliable and appropriate individual protection equipment according to the activities the workers are executing. The last rule to remember about is to arrange a compatible storage system.

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[1] National Institut of Research and Safety (NIRS) means Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité

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[1] Occupational Exposure Limit Value (OELV) means Valeur Limite d’Exposition Professionnelle (VLEP)

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[1] Individual Protection Equipement (IPE) means Équipement de Protection Individuelle

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[1] Safety Data Sheet means (SDF) means Fiche de Données de Sécurité