Sports First Aid with Harberry Training

Harberry Training will be hosting seminars throughout Ulster to promote safer sport.

The first seminar will be at Civil Service RFC on the 21st April at 7pm please contact Harberry Training to find out more.

Harberry Training is proud to have been approved as the sole provider in Northern Ireland of the National Sports First Aid Qualification.

Each year there are almost 20 million reported sporting injuries in the UK. In a report produced for the Sports Councils for England, Scotland and Wales during 1991, it was calculated that over 3 million injuries remained untreated. Year on year, these figures have remained substantially unaltered.

As part of its overall commitment to help the sporting community, the National Stadium Sports Medicine Centre seeks to make sport safer. They aim to do this through improving the first aid knowledge and skills of people involved in sport and exercise, e.g. athletes, coaches, referees, teachers and even the parents of children engaging in sport.

The Sports First Aid Course was originally devised by the National Sports Medicine Institute with the backing of national sporting bodies, and endorsed by The Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (UK) to tackle the problem at grass roots level. It is the only nationally recognized qualification in Sports First Aid in the UK. The Sports Medicine Centre is a validated and endorsed provider of this course.

We envisage that the end result of improved sports first aid training will be that the very first person present after an incident has occurred will be capable of administering appropriate emergency aid, saving potentially life-saving time. This is of particular benefit when sports leaders accompany sporting teams outside their usual environment or where the sporting environment itself has limited first aid facilities.

Sport and exercise is now recognized as a major benefit for health and government, both local and national, has become proactive in trying to increase exercise participation at all levels in the community. With this in mind it is now incumbent upon those who promote exercise and provide leadership, coaching and the necessary facilities for those encouraged to exercise to ensure appropriate levels of first aid knowledge.

What is the Sports First Aid Course delivered by the Sports Medicine Centre?

The Sports First Aid Course has been designed to:

• Greatly improve the quality of first aid provided in the sport and exercise environment.
• Increase awareness of the importance of sports first aid among people involved in sport and exercise.
• Make sport safer
• Help prevent serious consequences developing from injuries by ensuring that the injuries are dealt with properly when they first occur.

You can read full course details here at Harberry Training or click here to email Eric Wilson at Harberry Training.