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# Council workers set to share lifesaving skills after training session
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/council-workers-set-to-share-lifesaving-skills-after-training-session/
- Published: 2024-11-09T08:09:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-11-08T19:13:25.000Z
- Description: Workers at Lichfield District Council have learnt how to help someone suffering with a catastrophic bleed – and are set to pass on their skills to the wider community.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 19:07, News

WORKERS at Lichfield District Council have learnt how to help someone suffering with a catastrophic bleed – and are set to pass on their skills to the wider community.

The Stop The Bleed session showed more than 20 staff members how to apply pressure, pack a wound and improvise a tourniquet to halt the flow of blood.

The workshop was delivered Sir Keith Porter, co-founder of the charity Citizen Aid which works to prepare people to help themselves and each other when there are multiple casualties.

A professor of clinical traumatology, Sir Keith explained that the actions of the general public in the first few minutes following an incident are often crucial to the survival of a casualty.

> “People can bleed to death within a few minutes unless someone is there to take appropriate action.  
>  
> “For those people who are present safety is the first priority but they need to know what to do.”

Cllr Richard Cox, cabinet member for community engagement, said:

> “The training session demonstrated lifesaving techniques which staff are now able to share with their teams and people across the district.”