EMS Safety

The goals, actions, and work packages of the project support the specific objective 4.2 'New skills for working life' of the EU Regional and Structural Policy Program 'Renewing and Competent Finland 2021–2027.' The project focuses on the sub-area of this specific objective, 'Developing workplace readiness skills during studies and in the workplace,' particularly regarding occupational safety in the social and healthcare sectors as well as the security and rescue sectors.

The goal of the project is to increase the preparedness of emergency care professionals and students to anticipate, recognize, and prevent threat and violence situations, as well as to generate new knowledge about the causes of situations that led to threats and violence, and what could be learned from them.

The main objectives of the project are:
1. To increase the expertise of emergency care students in threat and violence situations (preparedness, recognition, prevention).
2. To increase the expertise of emergency care professionals in threat and violence situations (preparedness, recognition, prevention).
3. To investigate the causes of threat and violence situations in emergency care.
4. To investigate what can be learned from emergency care threat and violence situations.

The project strengthens inter-regional collaboration between universities of applied sciences and welfare areas. This collaboration can help standardize safety practices between regions, facilitating the transition and integration of emergency care professionals and students into new workplaces through unified operating models. The project supports networking that aims at developing regional educational institutions and welfare areas, as well as promoting innovation and foresight expertise.

This project aims to combine the practices of improving the recognition, prevention and preparation of the approach covering the threat and violence in exchange for more reactive practices.

The target group of this group project is paramedics working in welfare areas and paramedic students at universities of applied sciences. The group project aims for a total of 200 participants (80 women) from the above-mentioned target groups. Two companies and two Wellbeing Counties participate in this project.

This project has been prepared with the collaboration of the project partners and work life specialist. The project scope is derived from the development needs of the EMS work life.

The objective of the project is to increase the EMS professionals and paramedic students’ capabilities to recognize, anticipate, and better prepare for threatening and violent situations in EMS and to add new knowledge of such situations and what the EMS community can learn from this.

As a result of this project, we will produce the educational material, methods, and knowledge in how to prevent and anticipate threatening and violence situations in the EMS for use in educational organizations and Wellbeing Counties to support the capabilities of their respective organizations to better prepare and respond to the changing environment in EMS.

By combining the practices, graduating paramedic students will integrate to the workplace more easily and the transfer of EMS personnel moving from one working area or employer to the other will be more efficient. This project supports EMS personnel and students’ development, preparation skills and overall capabilities. With this project, future EMS personnel and EMS personnel preparedness and capabilities will improve in line with emerging societal attitudes.