St John Ambulance is the premier supplier of industrial paramedical services for mine sites and industrial projects throughout Western Australia. Given the remote nature of many of our clients’ sites, having the highest level of emergency patient care is often the key factor that determines the severity of the consequence to a workplace injury or employee illness.

Our aim is to share our information, knowledge and experience with large industrial organisations in order to improve safety and emergency care in the workplace.

To ensure that your industrial workplace is safer, staff morale is higher and costs are kept to a minimum, St John Ambulance offers a flexible and customised approach to working with industry.

With access to expert paramedical personnel; internationally recognised first aid training; world standard vehicles, equipment and supplies; and the established St John Ambulance network, we can provide you with a complete package that meets all of your industrial first aid and paramedical requirements.

Services offered
The comprehensive range of services for industrial workplaces offered by St John Ambulance includes:

• The sale or lease of ambulance vehicles (when vehicles are available); 
• First aid rooms and medical centres; 
• Contract and relief staff, including fully qualified paramedics and first aid personnel for short or long term projects;
• Medical equipment sales;
• First aid audits and project management; and 
• First aid kit sales and servicing
  

First Aid Rooms and Medical Centres
St John Ambulance offers a personal consultancy service to assist in the establishment of first aid rooms and medical centres. With our help you can set up, equip, staff and maintain your own first aid rooms and medical centres.

A range of quality services and products can be combined to meet your particular requirements, and first aid rooms and medical centres can be purchased or leased.

Hire on-site Paramedics and First Aiders
If you're looking to engage ambulance paramedics, industrial paramedics or occupational first aiders, look no further. St John Ambulance can supply fully trained personnel for your site.

St John Ambulance personnel can advise workers on anything from being careful about the water they drink and protecting themselves from the sun and dehydration, as well as being qualified to advise on more serious medical matters.

In addition to being fully qualified serving on-road paramedics, St John Ambulance personnel contracted to remote sites complete a series of advanced industrial ambulance care and industrial paramedic courses.  With their high levels of training and extensive emergency experience, St John’s Industrial Paramedics are unrivalled in their field.

Whatever the nature of your industry, our team becomes part of your team to get the job done and to get it done safely.

Support and back-up
Through our vast, state-wide network of sub-centres - stretching from Kununurra in the north to Esperance in the south-east, St John Ambulance provides the best qualified staff with unrivalled support and back-up.

St John Ambulance has a state of the art Ambulance Operations Centre situated within ambulance headquarters in Belmont. All ambulance resources are controlled from this operations centre, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. St John Ambulance staff anywhere in the state can contact the Operations Centre at any time should they require emergency assistance or clinical advice. 

Our Operations Centre is supervised by a senior ambulance paramedic who will assist with any clinical assistance required by Industrial Paramedics or Industrial Medics. We also have the ability to conference a call with any Hospital Emergency Department.  Additionally, St John Ambulance maintain a contract with an emergency medicine advisory service (Medical Emergency Solutions), who may be contacted 24 hours a day by any Industrial Paramedic who may require further clinical advice.

Our Operations Centre also has the ability to utilise ambulance resources within the metropolitan and country ambulance services in the case of major incidents anywhere in the state. St John Ambulance have direct communications with the Royal Flying Doctor Service Communications Centre and regularly work with them on country retrievals.

All our staff come with medical protocol coverage from St John Ambulance and are covered by our Poisons Licence, so your company need have no worries about these complex requirements.

Purchase Paramedic & First Aid Equipment
As a leader in the field of first aid and medical equipment for over a century, St John Ambulance can recommend and guide you in the types of products you require for your site. Our extensive range of equipment includes stretchers, oxygen, defibrillators, resuscitators, splints and many other emergency and clinical supplies.

• Provide high level advice on medical risk management;
• Manage your first aid rooms and medical centres;
• Handle your first aid training and kit requirements;
• Supply on-site ambulances (when available);
• Restock your kits, medical centres and ambulances;
• Provide ambulance paramedics; and
• Arrange your medical protocol cover

Be proactive and protect your workers…For total solutions to your industrial first aid and paramedical requirements, contact the St John Ambulance Industrial Paramedical Services team by calling (08) 9334 1463 emailing ips@ambulance.net.au.