Dubai, UAE - With the increased use of machines and appliances on a daily basis, the world is getting more complicated every day. Even with safety measures in place (or due to lack thereof), research shows that an estimated 2.3 million men and women around the world succumb to work-related accidents or occupational diseases every year. At the same time, approximately 76% of all preventable injury-related deaths occur in homes. These numbers are devastatingly horrifying as they were very much avoidable with little effort.

This is why first aid training is important. Taufiq, spokesperson for HSS, one of the top health and safety solutions firms in Dubai explains: “There is a common belief that first aid only involves a set procedure that is to be carried out after an accident occurs. However, comprehensive first aid training will teach you that the first rule of safety is to secure the environment and prevent harm before it happens.”

Despite what the numbers show about injury epidemiology, people make more and more mistakes and risk injury and in worst cases, death. This is why first aid courses aim to teach the general population effective and efficient ways to prevent accidents at home and the workplace. With a critical shortage of individuals with first aid knowledge and skills, it has become the need of the hour to encourage more people to enroll in first aid training and learn to secure their surroundings.

Taufiq continues: “Thus, there is an ever-growing demand for certified first-aiders as part of industrial and commercial establishments as well as for personal use. Being trained in first aid will make people be more aware of their surroundings and act cautiously, thus preventing accidents.”

Safety starts with prevention; which is why it is one of the fundamental ideas of first aid. If you are interested to learn more about home or workplace safety and have a more in-depth knowledge of how to aid and support victims of an accident, enroll in basic first aid and pediatric first aid training courses at the HSS facility in Dubai.