First Aid Kit News - June 2007
June 29, 2007 – 9:04 amAstronauts to use first aid kit to repair shuttle
Staples from the first aid kit on the shuttle Atlantis will be used to fix the thermal blanket damaged during takeoff.
Public has poor first-aid knowledge
Fifty per cent of Irish people have not participated in a first aid course, according to a new study. The research also shows that while some 40% of respondents use a first aid kit in the home on a monthly basis, 60% of respondents are unsure or do not know what a first aid kit should contain.
Nurse starts home-made first aid
Claire Wiseman is still not sure what drove her to business. Not the lure of big profits -well, at least not yet.Eight months after launching her premium first aid kits for infants and children up to age 12, sales are still counted in only hundreds.And most of those have come as a result of her own efforts on the end of a phone to friends and potential retail outlets.The production line - such as it is - is the spare room in her Meadowbank, Auckland home.
Ideas resuscitate failed first-aid outfit
Innovation and enthusiasm are behind the success of Brenniston, writes Mario Xuereb. HOW do a filmmaker and a writer with limited business experience and no medical know-how take over a failed first-aid kit supplier and treble turnover in less than seven years? “Innovation,” says Michael Boltman, managing director of Brenniston, the company he and wife Pia Abrahams bought from receivers in 2000. The couple, who left their freelance careers for the financial security they needed to start a family, kept making the company’s line of traditional first-aid kits but also launched products they believed were victims of the safety industry’s staid culture.
When families take a trip into the great outdoors, anything can happen in a place where there’s simply not the medical personnel around to help.So what should you do uphold that old Boy Scout motto, “Always be prepared?” The Sartwell’s of Blaine are always prepared. Chris Sartwell has been camping since he was a kid and now he’s teaching his son Sean how to live outdoors. Their camping trip to Bunker Hills Regional Park is a practice run for their upcoming trip to Gooseberry Falls. For every trip, no matter how close they are to medical care, they bring their first aid kit.