Biker Down

[mic]

looks like a cool free course in emergancy first aid for bikers. im doing it next month.

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Biker Down the FREE Emergency First Aid course for Bikers provided by Fire and Rescue Services across the UK!

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Biker Down, the FREE First Aid Course for Bikers was originally started by Kent Fire and Rescue Service's Fire Bike Team.


fb page where you can find your local group (if they do it in your area)

https://www.facebook.com/bikerdownuk

and the website

https://www.kent.fire-uk.org/your_safety/road_safety/motorbike_safety.aspx
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[jh4691]

Free is good. Thanks.

[bamt]

I did it a couple of months ago. It's well worth going to - lots of advice that is specific to bike accidents rather than general first aid, how to manage the scene plus also when and how to remove a helmet safely.

I would recommend everyone go on one (not at all being selfish and hoping that should I end up lying on the road the next biker along has been on the course)

[sidewinder]

Brilliant course to do.we got given a decent first aid kit at the end to.

[Jonathan A]

Does it result in a proper first aid qualification?
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[mic]

From a 3 hour course? I'd guess no.
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[bamt]

There is no qualification (or certificate) at the end. What it does give is a biker-centric first aid view; what the most important things are to look at based on typical biker injuries. That's something that doesn't come on a generic first aid course. Of course, if you have both then that's even better!

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Not done that particular course but recently finished another refresher in basic first aid. The instructor was an ex-paramedic and also a biker. We were ahead of schedule so he showed us the basics for helmet removal if the casualty isn't breathing.
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[mic]

Just done the 3 day first aid at work course again (didn't renew in time) so am feeling the first aid love at the moment. And of course should I be with some poor sod who has an off, I'd want to do whatever is best at the time, whether I have a certificate or not
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[sidewinder]

[ouchthathurt]

As a paramedic, im well up for these courses, they save lives. i have seen a young biker die because of a occluded (blocked) airway due to the positioning of his neck and tongue, the helmet pushed his head far forward as he lay on the floor. if a member of the public who all stood about helplessly watching (most people know never to touch a crash helmet) knew the correct method for removing a helmet, he would have been ok, apart from being KO'd from the crash (which is why he didnt remove his own helmet) the PostMortem showed no other injuries, except a few scratches and a bit of slight gravel rash. He died because he couldnt breathe. in this case helmet removal would have seen this 19yr old walk away with a sore backside and a scuffed bike. correct and immediate 1st aid saves lives, simple as.


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[conker]

I did a BikerDown, was great, though they said they couldn't teach helmet removal but said use common sense, if they aren't breathing you can't make the situation worse, they'll die anyway without intervention.

As understand it, the idea is to prevent twisting and rotation of the neck and spine.

I've done a few first aid courses over the years, baby first aid when my boy was born, biker down, and when I was a youth in cadets, they should teach this in schools.

Hopefully, if I even need to use it, I'll be calm and remember some of it.

[1198]

Never remove a helmet - unless (s)he's not breathing was the shortened version of what I've always been taught on first aid courses.

[map]

Reading the facebook page it's not clear where else other than sout of England they are.

However, did follow a link to TwistandRide.Net training. This has a map you can click on for local schemes in the UK (although nothing in Scotland it would appear)
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[BrownTrousers]

Quick bump for this very worthwhile thread.

The BIKER DOWN course is getting a positive reception and is being rolled out to more and more fire services.

I attended the first ever one run by Suffolk Fire and Rescue yesterday and can confirm it was excellent.

1 hour on accident scene management
1 hour on first aid (incl how and when to remove a helmet safely)
1 hour on 'the science of being seen'

Plus free first aid kit, tread depth gauge, cups of tea and a handful of Jaffa cakes.

Can't recommend it enough. Suffolk have 2 more courses this summer in Ipswich and Lowestoft but a bit of google-fu may bring up other services in your area doing it.


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[Rogerborg]

Great idea, Failbook page is fail. Essentially impossible to find out information unless it happens to be shoved in your face at the right moment. There might be a course near me, maybe, at some unspecified time, if I ask Joe who'll forward it to Bob's mate Kev.
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[Beehive Bedlam]

Not interested would ride around the wreckage.

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[BrownTrousers]

[Albigularis]

[talkToTheHat]

Found a poster for this in the window of a bike shop. Took a handful of e-mails to book a date that wasn't already booked out, so these seem pretty popular. Going with the girlfriend as well. The guy who runs these in south Yorkshire was at he ERS mentioned in another thread.
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