Prime Atlantic Trains LASWA Staff on Emergency Response Techniques

Peter Uzoho

As part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR), Falck Prime Atlantic, an oil and gas training company, has offered emergency response skills training to staff of the Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA), to prepare them to be able to save more lives during emergencies. The LASWA staff were part of the 400 beneficiaries targeted to be trained by the training organisation under its Basic First Aid/Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Scheme 2019, with the tag: “Saving Lives, One Nigerian at a time.”

The training, practically delivered by a health/emergency response expert, with the aid of special mannequins, taught the participants the step by step method of reviving an unconscious or lifeless patient while waiting for the appearance of a doctor. Speaking at the training recently, the Manager, Marketing and Corporate Communications, Falck Prime Atlantic, Ms Aderonke Adebanjo, said the company offers training in diverse areas including sea survival, first aids, emergency response, crisis management and so on.

Adenanjo added that the firm went into such services to fill a gap it identified in Nigeria, explaining that in workplaces and crowded areas, a lot of people do not know what to do when someone collapses and becomes unconscious or lifeless.

She said: “We want to solve that problem; we want to change that narrative even if it is in a very small way. What we are doing is going across different industries, we were at CMS to train a lot of bus drivers, we were at Iporin market, we trained some of the market traders there. We identified that they had a really bad fire last year, so we shared some fire-fighting awareness training to them.