Road Trauma
Presenter: Emergency Services representatives

This lecture will involve oral presentation, use of whiteboard, powerpoint slides and the showing of a video either by – Road Accident Awareness Program (Qld Fire and Rescue) or Paramedics or Care Flight

Rescue Associations:

• Statistics on Volunteer Rescue Association call outs. (Last year they had 126 call outs which equals 5278 hours)
• Trafficking Crowd Control (If you are not able to render assistance get well out of the way)
• The volunteers resuce association numbers are “000” or mobile “112”
• The rescue association will help search for lost persons down wells etc. and helps ambulance services if a person is too heavy to lift
• Practical assessments

 
Other Emergency Services:

• History of ambulance service
• Ringing “000” and what to expect
• Audience participation on their experience in dialing “000”
• Dispel rumours, myths about using the ambulance
• Reinforce the dangers associated with the four factors mainly concerning road accidents:

1. Speed
2. Alcohol
3. Drugs
4. Fatigue

• Effectiveness of advertising campaigns in the media
• Relaying personal experiences of accidents attended and statistics
• Video on Traffic Offenders Program and accidents
• Thoughts on the video by persons watching