Thread one - how ba treats the elderly
Gromit801 - I have never requested that airline staff be trained as Medical experts, you have missed the entire point. I am stating that people who are not trained to push wheelchairs are in danger of making more mistakes/having more accidents that could with a little knowledge be avoided. (see item #4 above)
Let us take your argument to the fullest extent as you are an “airline sympathizer” – why bother to train pilots properly? Or train cabin staff just in case we crash? Or train cabin staff in how to handle the public? With your attitude why bother to train anyone including medics? Why bother to learn how to drive a car – just let everyone get in and drive eh!
People are trained so that less mistakes and accidents happen!
All I am requesting is that people pushing others around in wheelchairs have some training. I have trained hundreds of people in my time – it takes less than two hours to train a person, to make them aware of dangerous pushing and possible accidents. That includes accidents to them self as the pusher, particularly if they are pushing someone heavier than they are either up/down steep ramps or up/down kerbing. It is also vital to get them to wear the correct uniform, which is a pair of shoes that have flat heels, have a good floor grip and are laced up – modern sports shoes are ideal.
In every aspect of employment people are trained BECAUSE we are human and we make mistakes. Hopefully we learn from that education or from the mistakes we make.
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