Deliveroo offers free first aid training to its delivery drivers. Themeal delivery servicewants to offer its couriers, who drive around 14 cities, the skills to come to the rescue in emergency situations.
Eighty Deliveroo delivery drivers will receive first aid training from the Red Cross in the first round. In this, they learn about the first minutes after an accident. The delivery drivers are given practical exercises in, among other things, the stable side position if a victim is unconscious, skin wounds and burns, how to perform the abdominal thrust in case of choking and how to deal with bruises and broken bones.
Life-saving skills
"These guys and girls deliver by bike in all the neighbourhoods of many big cities," says Stijn Verstijnen, director Deliveroo Netherlands. "In the process, they encounter a variety of situations and may witness, for example, a heart attack from a fellow road user. This training provides them with life-saving skills with which they can help others in the cities where they work."
Zzp construction
With the free course, Deliveroo seems to want to boost its image as an employer. The meal delivery company has been in the news a lot in recent years for refusing to employ couriers on a permanent basis. Trade unions agitated against Deliveroo's zzp construction. Under pressure from politicians, Deliveroo decided to at least insure its self-employed couriers against industrial accidents.
