Tasks/Requirements

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1. First Aid

During Scouting activities, small accidents can happen. There can also be painful encounters with plants or animals.

1. Show how to treat small cuts and abrasions.
2. Demonstrate how to stop a nosebleed.
3. Using the bandage card, demonstrate how to cut and apply bandages for the following locations: finger, fingertip, finger joint, thumb joint, between fingers, on a knuckle, and nose.
4. Explain, using pictures or in nature, what to do when encountering the following plants and animals: stinging nettles, giant hogweed, oak processionary caterpillar, tick bites, bee and wasp stings, and ant bites.

Weather conditions and the elements can also cause injuries.

1. Describe the difference between heat exhaustion and heat stroke and explain how to treat them.
2. Explain how to recognize hypothermia and how to handle it.
3. Describe the degrees of burns, how to cool them, and how to care for them.
4. Explain how to prevent blisters on your feet and show how to treat them.
5. Show how to remove a splinter and care for the wound.
6. Explain when to call 112 in case of an accident and demonstrate what to say.

Tip: follow the Scouting First Aid course from Scouting Academy (available for scouts and older sections).

Larger accidents can also occur at Scouting. It is important to know what to do.

1. Demonstrate how to apply a finger dressing, pressure bandage, and quick bandage.
2. Show how to cool and bandage a sprain or bruise.
3. Explain when and how to give back and abdominal thrusts in case of severe choking and demonstrate this carefully.
4. Demonstrate the use of the Rautek grip to move a casualty in an emergency.
5. Show how to place a casualty in the recovery position.

Tip: follow a First Aid course at, for example, the Orange Cross or Red Cross.

1. Fire Safety

Fire always comes unexpectedly, but you can make an evacuation plan in advance.

1. Prepare for a possible fire by looking at the clubhouse floor plan and getting familiar with the locations of emergency exits and firefighting equipment.
2. Make your own floor plan on which you draw the escape route from your section room.
3. Participate in a fire drill in your clubhouse and discuss it afterwards with the leaders.

Fire always comes unexpectedly, but you can prepare for what to do in case of fire.

1. Explain what must happen during an evacuation, using your clubhouse emergency plan.
2. Describe which firefighting equipment is suitable for different types of fires and how to use it.
3. Demonstrate how to extinguish a pan fire. Consider safety: do not use real fire!
4. Show how to open a room door in case of fire to check if anyone is present.
5. Explain and show what to do when you come into contact with fire and smoke.

Fire always comes unexpectedly, but it does not arise out of nowhere.

1. Explain the fire triangle.
2. Research the most common causes of house fires and how to prevent them.
3. Compare the flammability of different materials such as wool, cotton, polyester, nylon, and acrylic. Determine which materials are most flammable and which are most fire-retardant. Demonstrate your findings to your group, taking fire safety into account.
4. Draw up a fire safety plan for a major activity or event of your group where fire is used, considering firefighting equipment, escape routes, and fire rules.

1. Safety During Hikes

Unexpected situations can also arise during hikes.

1. Assemble a first-aid kit that you can take during a day hike.
2. Explain what to do if you encounter a (wild) animal on the way, such as loose dogs, wild boars, wolves, snakes, or foxes.

A hike often has a safety plan.

1. Draw up your own safety plan for a hike in the Netherlands. The safety plan includes at least the following components:

• preparation/scouting the route
• visibility on the way
• suitable equipment (footwear, clothing, etc.)
• protection against various weather conditions
• rules for busy roads and crossings
• rules in case of an accident or incident
• contact details of emergency services
• agreements about walking alone or not
• rules when you get lost
• food and drink

A hike often has a safety plan.

1. Draw up your own safety plan for a hike in a remote area abroad. The safety plan includes at least the following components:

• preparation/scouting the route
• visibility on the way
• suitable equipment (footwear, clothing, etc.)
• protection against various weather conditions
• rules for busy roads and crossings
• rules in case of an accident or incident
• contact details of emergency services
• agreements about walking alone or not
• rules when you get lost
• food and drink

1. Learn how to communicate in emergencies, for example using semaphore, maritime signal flags, or Morse via light or sound signals. Show how you do this by transmitting a short message.

1. Safe and Healthy at Camp

A day at the beach during camp is a fun outing, but you must prepare well for it.

1. Make a plan to go to the beach as sustainably as possible with your section. Think about transport, food, and handling waste.
2. Explain how to swim safely in seawater. Indicate how to deal with tides and currents, and with rip currents.
3. Tell what the different warning flags at the beach mean.

Both food safety and personal hygiene must be monitored extra well at camp.

1. Draw up a cleaning plan for camp, with clear cleaning tasks, hygiene rules, and the use of environmentally friendly cleaning products.
2. Make a plan or agreements for hygienic storage of leftover foods so they last longer.

If you want an extremely sustainable camp, you need a sustainability coordinator!

1. In consultation with your leaders, take the initiative to create a sustainability plan for your summer camp. During the camp, you take on the role of sustainability coordinator. Optionally use the game Duurzaamheidspad from Scouts en Gidsen Vlaanderen as an aid:
   https://scoutsmap.be/artikelen/ecologisch-op-kamp-dat-doe-je-zo~20814

1. Social Safety

In addition to physical safety, it is also important that you feel safe during Scouting activities.

1. Explain what social safety means.
2. Indicate what being a "good scout" for others means to you. Create a top five of things that, in your view, help you be a good scout for others.
3. Choose one point to give extra attention to in order to contribute to a good atmosphere in your group. Make a personal agreement with your section leaders about this.

Within Scouting we strive for a safe environment for everyone. Preventing transgressive behavior is therefore extremely important.

1. Find out what a trusted person within Scouting does and get to know the trusted person in your own group (if there is one).
2. Find out whether your group has fixed agreements about dealing with transgressive behavior and what they are.
3. Think of (extra) agreements that you can make with your section to prevent transgressive behavior and discuss them with your leaders.

All Scouting volunteers have a certificate of conduct (VOG) and adhere to Scouting Nederland's code of conduct.

1. Read Scouting Nederland's code of conduct. In your own words, tell what the most important points are and what you yourself consider important about it.
2. Delve into the topic of social safety and study the cycle of a safe group.
3. Think of a number of questions about your section based on what you have read. Optionally use example questions from the Scouting game Power Up Your Game on social safety.
   Discuss your questions with a few other members and the leaders of your section.
4. Present the outcomes per question to your section.