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11 D - Snake and Scorpion Safety Awareness

The RJ North Projects document provides safety awareness guidelines for avoiding snake bites and scorpion stings, emphasizing the importance of vigilance in outdoor environments. It outlines preventive measures such as avoiding certain habitats, inspecting materials before use, and maintaining visibility at night. In case of a bite, it advises staying calm, immobilizing the affected area, and seeking immediate medical attention while avoiding common misconceptions about treatment.

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11 D - Snake and Scorpion Safety Awareness

The RJ North Projects document provides safety awareness guidelines for avoiding snake bites and scorpion stings, emphasizing the importance of vigilance in outdoor environments. It outlines preventive measures such as avoiding certain habitats, inspecting materials before use, and maintaining visibility at night. In case of a bite, it advises staying calm, immobilizing the affected area, and seeking immediate medical attention while avoiding common misconceptions about treatment.

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RJ NORTH PROJECTS

ZERO HARM | ZERO WASTE | ZERO DISCHARGE

Snake Bite & Scorpion Sting Safety Awareness


Snake & Scorpion bite whenever they feel threatened as an instinct to protect themselves, but mostly they
avoid the possible encounters with human. Most snakes stay away from undetected area or the area with
less human occupancy. For their self-protection they will warn their opponent and fight back.

Black Cobra Desert Viper Scorpion

How can avoid Snake Bite & Scorpion Sting


• Avoid places where snakes may live. These places include bushes, rocky areas, material stacked in
open yard, deep hole in the ground, area where very less man movements.
• Develop the habit of watching where you step and where you place your hands when outdoors.
• Never put hands in hollow logs, thick grass, bushes, wood piles, building material etc. without prior
inspection. Shake and inspect the staked materials before starting any activity.
• Exercise extreme care while moving around and especially while walking around coiled cables, debris,
scrap areas, shrubs, small bushes plates/sheet material etc. without prior inspection. Don’t move
alone around isolated places, especially while searching for material in the material yard.
• Shake and Inspect cover all, hand gloves and safety boot before wear.
• Don’t take short cut in late evening through poorly illuminated area.
• Avoid resting at undesignated area.
• Put on the lights outside the bunks / rooms in the corridor and let it be ON till early morning. This will
prevent Reptiles moving around the area.
• If you spot them, inform Fire department or Admin to seek professional support immediately, while
keep watching its movement. Spray snake repellent around office and work area to keep snakes
away.
What should you do if a snake bites you or to someone?
• Stay calm. Call for assistance and not to move around. Reassure the casualty.
• The most commonly recommended treatment keeps the bite area immobilized below the level of the
heart.
• Clean the bite wound. Be sure to wipe in the direction away from the wound. Tie a broad bandage two
inches above the wound. The wrap should be loose enough to slip a finger underneath it.
• Get the victim to a hospital as quickly as possible. Anti-snake venom serum is the only sure cure.
• Do NOT approach the snake; don't try to catch it or to kill it.
• DO NOT cut the bite with a knife or a razor blade.
• DO NOT try to suck out the blood / venom by mouth.
• Do NOT put ice on the bite to slow the spread of the venom. Researchers have found freezing of the
stricken limb is a major factor leading to amputation.
• DO NOT apply a tourniquet (tourniquets, which cut off the circulation to the limb, are potentially
dangerous, and are no longer recommended).
Anti-Serum
Not all snake bites require antiserum as not all snakes are venomous and even venomous snakes may
not have transmitted venom to the patient (Dry bite). The most appropriate treatment is to apply
immediate first aid and transfer to the most appropriate medical facility.
Sensitivity: Internal (C3)

Bulletin- August 2023

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