It is well recognised that testosterone and alcohol or drugs is a dangerous combination. If you add a weapon into the occasion then the risk to security staff rises exponentially. Often, in attempting to protect the public and defusing potentially violent situations, security staff become the focus of serious assault.
During the course of our work, instructors at Speciality Oxygen have attended hundreds of incidents of assaults at venues and establishments ranging from pubs, to clubs, to mass gathering events. In many cases the injuries we encounter have the potential to kill, and not uncommonly, they have.
When life threatening injury does occur, standard First Aid Courses have distinct limitations in managing them. On occasion, when treatment in the first few minutes can make all the difference between life and death, an ambulance crew may not make it in time – especially if the police have established a safety cordon in the interim. Often the ambulance crew don’t have either the training or equipment to provide the necessary treatment required. You don’t have to take our word for it though, as instructors to the military, we have also provided advanced training to specialist firearms officers and Search and Rescue teams who recognise the deficits in the ambulance service response.
The potential to make a difference to survival therefore may lie with the security staff or stewards who are already at the scene. At Speciality Oxygen we know how hard it is to stand and watch somebody die because of a lack of knowledge or suitable equipment – we have witnessed the effects on people numerous times in both civilian and military settings.
The Specialist Major Trauma Management Course for Security Staff is a vital extension to the regular First Aid at Work courses that exist across the UK. The SMTMC is designed to train staff to recognise and treat the life-threatening traumatic conditions you might encounter during the course of your work. Our instructors are the specialist doctors and paramedics who treat these injuries all of the time. Experts in the field of both military and civilian pre-hospital care, they have and continue to work in some of the busiest and best pre-hospital trauma systems in the World. The credibility of our instructors is of utmost importance to Speciality Oxygen. We do the job for real, we teach specialist military and other personnel from genuine experience rather than teaching from books! Neither are our instructors ex-soldiers with ‘add-on’ medical training – our staff are all doctors and paramedics who are active in pre-hospital trauma care in civilian and military operations.
We are acutely aware of your operating environment and the need for bespoke no-nonsense, relevant and useable training. We teach how to recognise and treat life threatening major trauma as soon as it occurs either to you or in front of you.
The SMSTC for Security Staff is an exciting development for the treatment of victims of serious assault. Previously only available to the military and specialist non-military teams, Speciality Oxygen believes we have a moral interest in training other high-risk civilian groups. We also believe that your employers have an ethical and legal duty of care to you and your clients to provide this level of training when it exists, to mitigate the risk of unnecessary death in the event of serious injury occurring.
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