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Welcome to European Union project CoSafe. |
Cooperation for Safety in sparsely populated areas
Within the CoSafe project homepage you can find information about
the project, activities, participants, contact addresses, news, and
a photo gallery with pictures from the different meetings and
scenarios.
Report
from Finnish teams:
Development of risk assessment tool
for major accidents has been tested during the rescue exercise in
Taivalkoski, Finland. The results were analyzed and the main
conclusion was that the safety personnel were quite satisfied with
the method. However some development ideas were exposed. The
patient's safety, the communication during the situation and
ensuring the on-site leader's role should be emphasized. We are
doing necessary modifications to the method in February. After that
the method will be tested by the medical emergency staff in Oulu.
Next phase in developing a risk assessment tool for major accidents
is to determine how outputs from risk assessment can be used in
planning and preparing for major accidents. The patient safety and
the safety of the safety personnel are strongly connected because of
this, risk assessment tool needs to be developed for accommodate
also patient safety. This development will be done in co-operation
of medical and safety experts in spring 2010.
Goal of the CoSafe
team is that the method could be sent to partners in June 2010 for
testing with the instructions and specifications.
Report from the Icelandic team:
The NPP Secretariat
organized an annual congress in Reykjavik called the „LAVA09“which
was attended by a representative from the Icelandic CoSafe project
team and from the Swedish Lead Partner. The preparation included a
poster making concerning the SNAM exercise in September 2005 as well
as a Power Point show representing the work of the CoSafe team so
far and what products are in process.
The CoSafe team has also
been working on analyzing the electronic questionnaire which was
sent to all possible groups of disaster responders. The first
analysis will be introduced at the CoSafe meeting which takes place
in Akureyri in March 2010 (see below).
The main work now is
focused upon the international meeting which takes place in Akureyri
during the 16. – 20. March 2010. This CoSafe meeting will be
accompanied to some extent by a project group called „The
Cross-border Mountain Rescue project“. The CoSafe team will have
their normal project meeting and workshops in Reykjavík and Akureyri
during this period. However, the meeting will be broken up on the
17th of March with an open seminar „Awareness of mountain disasters:
risks and rescue“. The seminar takes place during the Wednesday and
is organized for both project groups (CoSafe and Cross-border
mountain rescuers) and open to all interested groups. Icelandic and
foreign speakers are on the agenda, which is quite interesting, and
there will also be an exhibition about rescue clothing, CoSafe
products etc.
Report from the Scottish team:
The Scottish CoSafe team has continued to work on products and
services and will finalise its list of active projects before going
to Iceland in March.
Around 6.30 am on the cold and snowy morning
of January 2nd a head on collision between two cars occurred on the
road to Harris just outside Stornoway.
The driver of one
vehicle died at the scene of the accident. Travelling in the other
car was a family of six, two adults and four children. A multi
agency response involving the police, ambulance service, fire
brigade and primary care physician effectively triaged and
transferred the injured to the Western Isles Hospital. Initial
assessment and treatment of the family occurred in the accident and
emergency department. One child had a spinal injury and was
transferred by air ambulance to the neurosurgical unit in the
Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, three others were managed in the
Western Isles Hospital the most serious injury being a ruptured
kidney. A CoSafe led formal debriefing session with representatives
from all involved agencies usefully highlighted concerns with
communication, transmission of radiographic images and access to the
hospital in very cold conditions, but it clearly demonstrated how a
successful outcome can be achieved by coordination at the accident
site, flexibility and everyone playing to their strengths.
Report from the Swedish team:
The Swedish
team has conducted a mapping of emergency and disaster equipment.
Focus has been on vehicles for transportation of casualties,
equipment for prevention of hypothermia, communication and specific
equipment (i.e. oxygen, chemical protection suits). In connection to
this we have developed a program (working title GUIDE) in
cooperation with the department of computer sciences, Umeå
University. The program is under development, but a working
prototype exists and is a base for further discussions and
development. With this program, you are able to search for vehicles
and critical equipment from a map. You pinpoint an accident site and
make a search perimeter from the accident site (for instance a
search radius of 50 km). You can then search for specific equipment
(i.e. tents and stretchers) and get all units that keep this
equipment. This program can easily be transferred to any map in the
world.
- Latest updated information you always find at our homepage
www.cosafe.eu
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