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March 07, 2020
Overview
Employers must make sure employees get immediate help if taken ill or injured at work.
The law applies to every workplace and to the self-employed.
You must have:
- a suitably stocked first aid kit
- an appointed person or people to take charge of first aid arrangements
- information for all employees telling them about first aid arrangements
Assess your first aid needs
What ‘adequate and appropriate’ first aid arrangements are depends on the work you do and where you do it. You’re best placed to understand the nature of your work, so you should assess what your first aid needs are.
You must consider:
- the type of the work you do
- hazards and the likely risk of them causing harm
- the size of your workforce
- work patterns of your staff
- holiday and other absences of those who will be first aiders and appointed persons
- a suitably stocked first aid kit
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March 07, 20202 March 2020 – A team of WHO experts has landed in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, to support the ongoing response to the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in the country.
The team will work with health authorities and other stakeholders to review ongoing readiness and response efforts, visit designated health facilities, laboratories and points of entry, and provide technical guidance.
Overall, the objectives of the mission are to: identify transmission dynamics and at-risk populations; provide guidance on strengthening and scaling up the response to the ongoing outbreak, including agreement on priority control measures; and provide guidance on strengthened readiness for areas not yet affected by the outbreak.
To date, 1501 COVID-19 cases, including 66 deaths, have been reported in the country, as of 2 March at 15:00 Cairo local time. According to -
March 07, 2020The complexity of global supply, coupled with “just-in-time” inventory practices and narrowing sources of supply, have created vulnerabilities for virtually all enterprises.
The coronavirus, known as COVID-19, is wreaking havoc on global supply chains woefully unprepared for the massive scale of the emerging disruption. Large corporations such as Ikea, Starbucks, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Tesla are closing or slowing operations close to the epicenter in China. Mattel expects product delays due to factory closures, while Apple expects to ship 5%-10% fewer iPhones this quarter. The complexity of global supply, coupled with “just-in-time” inventory practices and narrowing sources of supply, have created vulnerabilities for virtually all enterprises.
Exacerbating the problem is that the spread of COVID-19 is a moving target. Although COVID-19 originated in China it is now spreading quickly across continents and is already in countries such as South Korea, Australia, -
March 04, 2020Industry sectors: Safety and Security Secon (Int'l Security Conference and Exhibition) takes place in Goyang/Seoul, Korea (South) In 2014 Secon attracted more than 45000 visitors and 450 exhibitors. Takes place every year ( since 2001 ) Statistics: 2014 Visitors: 45000 Exhibitors: 450 Net sqm: 10000 Show Dates: March 18-20, 2020 Time: 09:00 to 17:00 Venue: Goyang/Seoul, Korea (South) Kintex
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February 29, 2020Industry sectors:
Information Technology, Telecommunications
Safety and Security
ITS (Int'l IT, Security and Communication Exhibition) takes place in Almaty, Kazakhstan from 17.03 to 19.03.20.
Takes place every year
Show Dates: March 17-19, 2020
Time: 09:00 to 17:00
Venue: Almaty, Kazakhstan
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February 29, 2020Information for the public on the outbreak of coronavirus in China, including the current situation in the UK and information about the virus and its symptoms.
Contents
- Number of cases
- Risk level
- Returning travellers
- Information about the virus
- Summary of action taken
- Diagnosis and analysis
Number of cases
On 28 February the Chief Medical Officer for England announced a new case of coronavirus.
If more cases are confirmed in the UK, it will be announced as soon as possible by the Chief Medical Officer of the affected country.
As of 28 February, a total of 8,986 people have been tested in the UK, of which 8,966 were confirmed negative and 20 positive.
The Department of Health and Social Care will be publishing updated data on this page every day at 2pm until further notice.
Risk level
- Number of cases
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February 29, 2020FRIDAY, Feb. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A report from doctors battling China's coronavirus outbreak raises concern that people who have no symptoms and initially test negative on medical tests might still harbor and spread the COVID-19 virus.
The case involves an asymptomatic 20-year-old woman who appears to have spread the illness to five relatives who later became ill.
If similar reports are found elsewhere, "the prevention of COVID-19 infection would prove challenging," warned researchers led by Dr. Meiyun Wang of Henan Provincial People's Hospital in Zhengzhou, China.
While the rate of new cases in China appear to be slowing, outbreaks in countries such as South Korea and Iran have experts worried that COVID-19 could go global.
As of Friday, a total of more than 75,000 cases and 2,236 deaths were reported in mainland China.
For many infectious respiratory illnesses, people have to be symptomatic to transmit the infection to others. -
February 29, 2020Leading health experts from around the world have been meeting at the World Health Organization’s Geneva headquarters to assess the current level of knowledge about the new COVID-19 disease, identify gaps and work together to accelerate and fund priority research needed to help stop this outbreak and prepare for any future outbreaks.
The 2-day forum was convened in line with the WHO R&D Blueprint – a strategy for developing drugs and vaccines before epidemics, and accelerating research and development while they are occurring.
“This outbreak is a test of solidarity -- political, financial and scientific. We need to come together to fight a common enemy that does not respect borders, ensure that we have the resources necessary to bring this outbreak to an end and bring our best science to the forefront to find shared answers to shared problems. Research is an integral part of the outbreak response,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “I appreciate -
February 29, 2020More than 25 000 people across the globe have accessed real-time knowledge from WHO experts on how to detect, prevent, respond to and control the new coronavirus in the 10 days since the launch of an open online training.
The learning team of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme worked with technical experts to quickly develop and publish the online course on 26 January – 4 days before the 2019-nCoV outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern.
Approximately 3000 new users have registered for the training every day since its launch, demonstrating the high level of interest in the virus among health professionals and the general public. In addition, more than 200 000 people have viewed the introductory video to the course on YouTube.
The high engagement levels emerged as the international community launched a US$675 million preparedness
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