Pegasus Post: October 11, 2016

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[Edition Tuesday datE] October 11 2016
PEGASUS POST
CONTINUING EDUCATION
PODIUM FINISH: The Canterbury team after their third place finish in
Gisborne.
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CANTERBURY HAVE finished
third at the National Scholastic Surf
Championships in Gisborne.
Aranui High School’s Estella
Hungerford played a key role in her
team’s strong performance. She finished
second overall in the under-14 girls’
division final. Hungerford scored 9.17 in
the semi-final to advance to the final day
of competition where she scored a 9.3 to
finish behind Gisborne’s Tanira Tamanui.
Zac Van Eekelen and Zayne Stringer
from Shirley Boys’ High School also competed
for Canterbury at the event in the
under-16 boys’ competition.
Van Eekelen advanced from his heat
with scores of 9.43 and 11.5. He was unable
to go further than the quarter-finals
where he scored a 7.27. Stinger was unable
to advance from his heat with a score
of 5.43.
Canterbury finished on a total of 13,760
points behind Taranaki on 23,045 and
Auckland 14,765.
ACHIEVERS
FUTURE STAR: Estella Hungerford
finished second overall in the
under-14 girls competition.
SPORTS
INTERNATIONAL OPPOSITION: Aranui High School’s first XV rugby team had
the rare opportunity of playing an international team last week. They played
a South African under-18 schools team who were in Christchurch with the
Southern Cape Sports Tours group. The South Africans were too strong for
Aranui at the Lincoln Rugby Club on Thursday with the final score 0-49. While
the result didn’t go their way the game against BUSINESSES
the South Africans is sure to
be a match the team will remember forever. Earlier in the year Aranui won the
Wednesday secondary schools competition.
Ensuring a safe
ACHIEVERS
work place
SPORTS
Learning first aid is not only a
part of ensuring a safe work place, but also
an integral part of our engagement with
the wider community. We all learn the
necessary skills to ensure that in times of
emergency we are able to assist our work
colleagues, but are we able to take these
skills home, into the community or on to
the sports field?
not all work places are the same and
the injury risk for each place can be wide
and variable. The office attended by
administrators does not carry the same
risk as those people working with heavy
machinery, or perhaps at some distance
from a regular ambulance service. it is
therefore essential that you pick the right
first aid course to suit all of your activities –
both professional and social.
take, for example, an office worker who
does not have a high risk work environment
BUSINESSES
and whose concern might be to ensure
that they can deal with minor cuts and
superficial injuries, or the ability to perform
effective CPr. These skills can be achieved
on a course of eight hours duration and
would generally fit into low to medium
risk area. But take this same person on to
a sports field either as a spectator or player
when a higher level injury occurs. The eight
hour course covering unit standards 6402
and 6401 (or 26551 and 26552) does not
cover head neck and spinal injuries, eye
injuries, hypothermia and poisonings.
The majority of injuries occur outside of
the work place, in fact one in three injuries
occurs in the home, making it the most
common place for injuries to happen.
new Zealand children are twice as likely
to die through injury as children who live
in australia. They mostly die as a result
of motor vehicles accidents or falls in the
home. fatalities from leisure and sport are
not far behind those in the workplace.
The wider 12 hour course teaches the
additional unit standard 6400 and provides
a wide knowledge base for medium to high
risk environments. This course covers many
of the skills required to deal with the most
common injuries, such as falls (which can
result in head, neck and spinal injuries) and
dealing with complex scenes such as motor
vehicle accidents.
if you are not sure on the course best
suited to your needs, ask your accredited
first aid training provider. They can explain
the course content and give you options
that will best suit your needs. Look beyond
the workplace and consider your family and
your location. Check that you have a good
quality first aid kit that is up-to-date with
replenished items, and that everyone knows
where it is located.
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