Sentences with phrase «of an ambulance worker»

Dr Bashar Murad, director of Palestinian Red Crescent Society's emergency and ambulance unit, said at least two of his ambulance workers had been killed since the fighting started, while 35 had been injured.

In the study, bystanders attempted to perform CPR prior to the arrival of ambulance workers only 31 % of the time.

Mundane school rules have urgency at the GLC; students who don't maintain ordered lines might be in the way of an ambulance worker with a gurney or a frail elder with a walker.

Not exact matches

Bronwyn Barter, president CUPE Local 873 who represents workers at the Ambulance Service of BC, said paramedics relied heavily on the Kits Coast Guard.

And yet... «As emergency workers - including personnel from the Red Cross and civil defense corps - responded to the explosion, «angry Christian youth started beating our staff and as a result broke the side glass of our ambulance that was on the scene to provide service,» he said.»

Jamie Richardson, an ambulance worker, took the reins of her bridle in his left hand and pushed gently against the horse's neck, trying to steady her on three legs.

Fire departments across the northern Chicago suburbs are looking to increase the safety of their workers by equipping ambulances with automatic loading systems.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said at least six ambulance workers, and at least 13 other aid workers, have been killed as they attempted to rescue the wounded and collect the dead.

Another was organised at St Paul's Cathedral, where families of the victims will gather with fire, police and ambulance service representatives to celebrate the emergency service workers killed on that day in New York.

Also at noon, Sen. Tim Kennedy and Assembly members Sean Ryan and Monica Wallace will announce the implementation of a new law which expands New York's «Move Over» Law to cover volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers whose vehicles have flashing blue or green lights, Doyle Fire Company # 2, 100 Willowlawn Pkwy., Cheektowaga.

Thousands of NHS workers in England and Northern Ireland, including nurses, midwives and ambulance staff, have been staging four hour strikes.

The mayor laid out plans to spend $ 115 million to boost the minimum wage to $ 15 for tens of thousands of city workers, and $ 5.4 million to expand FDNY ambulance tours in Upper Manhattan, Queens and The Bronx in an effort to boost response times.

NHS workers, including nurses, midwives and ambulance staff, have staged a four - hour strike in England as part of a pay dispute.

Two months ago, when clinician Tim Flanigan arrived in Monrovia to help Liberia combat its Ebola epidemic, it took ambulances a few days to respond to calls, dying people were turned away from designated treatment units, health care workers ran short of personal protective equipment, and dead bodies were left in the street.

At first, the contact tracers were met with some hostility; one town threatened to burn the ambulance some of the workers were traveling in.

Occupations that may be at increased risk of exposure include health workers, laboratory workers, cleaning crews (for hospitals, ambulances, travel facilities, etc.), transportation workers (e.g., airlines, public transportation, taxis), sanitation workers, and morgue workers.

Fuel shortages also made it more challenging for ambulances to respond to emergencies, for utility workers to restore electricity and for relief workers to reach the hardest - hit areas of the city.

The Ministry of Justice says it will support the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Bill, meaning offenders who attack emergency service workers such as ambulance and NHS staff, firefighters, police officers etc. will receive a twice-fold maximum prison seWorkers (Offences) Bill, meaning offenders who attack emergency service workers such as ambulance and NHS staff, firefighters, police officers etc. will receive a twice-fold maximum prison seworkers such as ambulance and NHS staff, firefighters, police officers etc. will receive a twice-fold maximum prison sentence.

That means that a firefighter or ambulance worker, injured in a road traffic accident in the course of their work would receive as little as 10 % of the damages which a colleague would be awarded for an injury that occurred in the fire or ambulance station.

While the criminal charges were later dismissed by a magisterial district court judge, the woman has hired a Pennsylvania personal injury attorney and has filed a lawsuit naming the municipality of Mt. Lebanon, the Medical Rescue Team South Authority ambulance service, two emergency medical workers and Officer Jeffrey Frolo as defendants.

These may include the likes of volunteer firefighters or volunteer ambulance workers who otherwise may not have qualified.

PTSD symptoms and the full range of criteria comprising a PTSD diagnosis have been observed in rescue and ambulance personnel.12 13 Healthcare workers typically are exposed to two types of trauma in the hospital setting: direct (personal involvement in traumatic events through confrontations resulting in their own traumatic experiences, e.g., workplace violence) and indirect (non-personal involvement in traumatic events through others» confrontations resulting in other people's traumatic experiences, e.g., witnessing other people's direct experiences of workplace violence, caring for dying patients «and threats of severe injury or exposure to trauma).4 14 — 16 In the present study, a traumatic event refers to a healthcare worker's exposure to physical violence in the workplace.

Access to health services is dependent upon many factors including an appropriate workforce, and not of any one professional group but a team, whereby the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health worker, the aged care worker, mental health professionals, the optometrist, dentist, ambulance personnel, speech therapist and podiatrist is each as equally vital to health services as is the doctor.

These labs pose a serious threat to the safety of both the public and emergency first responders such as police, fire and ambulance workers.»