Priorities

On finding a casualty:
- ensure your own safety;
if necessary, remove the casualty from danger or danger from the casualty (but see the note below on enclosed spaces);
- give immediate treatment to the casualty who is not breathing and/or whose heart has stopped, is bleeding severely or unconscious – others can be treated later;
- send for help.
If there is more than one unconscious or bleeding casualty:
- send for help;
- treat the most serious injury first in the order of:

• not breathing and/or heart stopped;
• unconsciousness.
• serious bleeding;

If the casualty is in an ENCLOSED SPACE:
- DO NOT enter the enclosed space unless you are a trained member of a rescue team acting under instructions;
- send for help and inform the master.
It must be assumed that the atmosphere in the space is
hostile. The rescue team MUST NOT enter unless wearing breathing apparatus which must also be fitted to the casualty as soon as possible. The casualty must be removed quickly to the nearest safe adjacent area outside the enclosed space
unless his injuries and the likely time of evacuation makes some treatment essential before movement.