health and safety, eat your heart out

Isn't the weather foul at the moment?

We had rather a dramatic day in work yesterday, when one of our fellas slipped in the car park in a heavy hailstorm and couldn't get back up. An ambulance was called and we were advised not to try to move him...but then the ambulance failed to turn up, and time was dragging on and on and this chap was still lying out in the open on the freezing cold, wet, concrete ground in the middle of a hailstorm! We piled coats on him to try and keep him warm, someone found a foil blanket, and we unearthed a couple of tarpaulins to create an impromptu shelter. The hail was torrential at one point, lying thick like snow; there was thunder and lightning, too. It was awful.

The ambulance depot is a 5 minute drive from the office, if that. The hospital is 10 minutes away. We waited an hour and forty minutes before a paramedic arrived in a so-called 'rapid response' vehicle. It was two hours before an actual ambulance finally turned up to take the injured man to hospital, after he'd been lying on the ground in the hail all that time. Appalling! Luckily, he seems to be okay, although they kept him in hospital overnight; he's popped his knee, but nothing more serious than that. It could have been worse - he could have ended up with hypothermia!

Not good. Not good at all.

health and safety, eat your heart out

Isn't the weather foul at the moment?

We had rather a dramatic day in work yesterday, when one of our fellas slipped in the car park in a heavy hailstorm and couldn't get back up. An ambulance was called and we were advised not to try to move him...but then the ambulance failed to turn up, and time was dragging on and on and this chap was still lying out in the open on the freezing cold, wet, concrete ground in the middle of a hailstorm! We piled coats on him to try and keep him warm, someone found a foil blanket, and we unearthed a couple of tarpaulins to create an impromptu shelter. The hail was torrential at one point, lying thick like snow; there was thunder and lightning, too. It was awful.

The ambulance depot is a 5 minute drive from the office, if that. The hospital is 10 minutes away. We waited an hour and forty minutes before a paramedic arrived in a so-called 'rapid response' vehicle. It was two hours before an actual ambulance finally turned up to take the injured man to hospital, after he'd been lying on the ground in the hail all that time. Appalling! Luckily, he seems to be okay, although they kept him in hospital overnight; he's popped his knee, but nothing more serious than that. It could have been worse - he could have ended up with hypothermia!

Not good. Not good at all.