incident reports Workplace asthma emergency policy • Risk assessment and Individual’s asthma management plan • emergency management Emergency first aid management for asthma • strategies may include: Identification of competencies and training • requirements Identification and risk assessment of avoidable and • manageable asthma triggers, including: allergens - respiratory infections - exercise - drugs - food chemicals and additives - gastro-oesophageal reflux - smoking - air pollutants - occupational factors - temperature change - Asthma triggers Physical hazards may • Workplace hazards include: • Environmental hazards • Proximity of people Emergency asthma • • Hazards associated with casualty management • spacer, or obtaining and using the workplace’s First aid principles and emergency first aid kit containing an asthma inhaler procedures may include: reliever and single-use spacer Checking and maintaining the casualty’s airway, • Assessing • breathing and circulation the site for Following the Emergency Asthma First Aid protocol • danger to self, recommended by the Thoracic Society of Australia and casualty and New Zealand (TSANZ)/Asthma Australia/ National others, and Asthma Council Australia/The Asthma Foundation of minimising the Victoria, where the individual’s Asthma Action Plan is not danger available, or the casualty is not known to have a history Determining the • of asthma casualty’s medical history Appropriate emergency assistance may include: • of asthma Doctors - Checking the • Nurses - availability of the Paramedics/Ambulance Officers - individual’s Asthma Designated first aiders/first aid officers - Action Plan, reliever Police - medication and their Fire brigade - may include: Worksite equipment, machinery and substances Risks • Environmental risks, including those known to trigger • asthma episodes Contamination by bodily fluids •
Risk assessment and emergency management strategies may include: Physical hazards may include: • Emergency asthma incident reports • Workplace asthma emergency policy • Individual’s asthma management plan • Emergency first aid management for asthma • Identification of competencies and training requirements • Identification and risk assessment of avoidable and manageable asthma triggers, including: - allergens - respiratory infections - exercise - drugs - food chemicals and additives - gastro-oesophageal reflux - smoking - air pollutants - occupational factors - temperature change • Asthma triggers • Workplace hazards • Environmental hazards • Proximity of people • Hazards associated with casualty management First aid principles and procedures may include: • Assessing the site for danger to self, casualty and others, and minimising the danger • Determining the casualty’s medical history of asthma • Checking the availability of the individual’s Asthma Action Plan, reliever medication and their spacer, or obtaining and using the workplace’s emergency first aid kit containing an asthma inhaler reliever and single-use spacer • Checking and maintaining the casualty’s airway, breathing and circulation • Following the Emergency Asthma First Aid protocol recommended by the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ)/Asthma Australia/ National Asthma Council Australia/The Asthma Foundation of Victoria, where the individual’s Asthma Action Plan is not available, or the casualty is not known to have a history of asthma • Appropriate emergency assistance may include: - Doctors - Nurses - Paramedics/Ambulance Officers - Designated first aiders/first aid officers - Police - Fire brigade Risks may include: • Worksite equipment, machinery and substances • Environmental risks, including those known to trigger asthma episodes • Contamination by bodily fluids
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