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Question 1

What legal protection is there in providing emergency assistance?

Answer 1

Good Samaritan/ SARAH act.
A law which protects any volunteer giving aid to an injured person in an emergency situation by offering legal protection in the form of exemption from lawsuits and liability, acting as a safeguard to those who help another in a real emergency, life-or-death situation.

Question 2

What is the legal limit in the UK for drink driving?

Answer 2

80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood; other European countries, including Scotland, the limit is 50 milligrams per 100 millilitres of blood.

Question 3

What is a graze?

Answer 3

Lay term for abrasion caused by injury of the skin surface.

Question 4

What is a laceration?

Answer 4

tear/ split through the full thickness of the skin caused by a blunt instrument.