E.P.S. TRAINING

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23914, 5 April 1943, Page 3

E.P.S. TRAINING

SYLLABUS FOR FIRST-LINE UNITS An outline of the. training to be given front-line E.P.S. personnel is given in the latest issue of the "Civil Defence Bulletin,” which says the syllabus provides for 30 hours of training spread over a period not exceeding six months from a date immediately following determination of unit establishments, which should not be later than March 31. “Assuming all personnel involved require to undergo training in the general personnel course,” says the publication, “the units, subjects, and time will be:— “Warden, law and order, communications.—Period, 30 hours. Subjects: General duty, elementary first aid, elementary fire-fighting, protection against high explosives, unexnloded bombs, crowd dispersal, resuscitation, stretcher bearing, personal and general hygiene, elementary chemical warfare. “Medical.—Period, 141 hours. Subjects: General ■ duty, elementary fire-fighting, protection against high explosives, unexploded bombs, elementary chemical warfare. “File.—Period, 24J hours. Subjects: General duty, elementary first aid, protection against high explosives, unexploded bombs, resuscitation, stretclrarbearlng, personal and general hygiene, elementary chemical * warfare. “Works.—Period, 28i hours. Subjects: General duty, elementary first aid, elementary .fire-fighting, protection against high explosives, unexploded bombs, resuscitation, stretcher-bearing, personal and general hygiene. “Priority is to be given to training of the principal units in accordance with the following table:—General duty, four hours; elementary first aid, six hours; elementary fire fighting, four hours; protection against , high explosives, one hour and a half; unexplodefi bombs, two hours; crowd, dispersal, one hour and a half; resuscitation, four hours; stretcher-bear-ing, two hours; personal and general hygiene, two hours; elementary chemical warfare, three hours.” Those already qualified in particular subjects are not required to take those courses, but are liable for re-examina-tion at the end of the training period.