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TWO power station workers have suffered horrific burns and shrapnel injuries in an explosion and are screaming for the pain to end.

Elsewhere, a pedestrian lays bloodied and moaning with his mangled leg caught in the wheel arch of a crashed 4WD.

These were just two of the confronting scenarios presented to participants as mock accidents in the Power Industry Safety Day, at Eraring, today.

The competition, which was first held in 1958, tests the first-aid training and fire-fighting skills of the state’s energy generation companies.

Antony Cotic, the site materials and facilities manager for the event hosts, Origin Energy, said it was always a day of friendly competition with a deadly serious purpose.

“Many of the 100 participants we have here today represent a cross section of occupations from the power industry, including tradesmen such as fitters and electricians, as well as OH&S, support, and site services staff,” Mr Cotic said.

They are people who have undergone first-aid and fire control training at their work sites.

“If there was an accident or injury at their workplace, they are the people who would be the first responders until the emergency services arrive,” Mr Cotic said.

“We do this every year to keep our skills and training up to date.”

Employees from Origin Energy, AGL, Energy Australia, and Delta Electricity took part in a range of fire-fighting drills against the clock, and three accident scenes where first-aid skills were tested.

Barry O’Regan, of Freney First Aid, was among the team of adjudicators who assessed and rated the participants’ first-aid work at the mock accident scenes.

“This is practical, pragmatic training,” he said.

It’s unsettling to watch the accident scenes play out.

In the car accident scenario, one casualty is unconscious and pinned by a 4WD against a tree, while another man lays screaming in agony with his leg caught in the wheel-arch.

To add to the realism, fake blood and wounds are applied.

If that isn’t enough to rattle the first-aiders, an hysterical witness is added to the scenario. She’s in their faces, making shrill demands, and adding to the overall stress levels of all involved.

Mr O’Regan said it was all good stuff.

“Getting high-quality training that is realistic is important so that you have the framework to deal with a scenario like this in real life,” he said.

“It means that the visual shock effect is diminished.”

Mr O’Regan said the intensity of the acting by the casualties was matched by the calibre of the first-aid administered by the teams under pressure.

He said the same principle applied to everyone, not just power industry staff: the quality of your first-aid training  would ultimately determine the quality of your performance in a real-life emergency.

He said first-aid training was like insurance: “It’s something you buy which you hope you’ll never have to use.”

Mr Cotic said the day was also a valuable chance for power station employees from rival companies to enjoy camaraderie.

“Being in the power generation industry, we all know and understand the hazards and risks we face every day,” he said.

“There is definitely camaraderie there, but a friendly rivalry, too.”

Prior to today, Eraring last hosted the safety day in 2013, when it won the first-aid competition.

Energy Australia is the event’s defending overall champion.

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A campaigning couple, who have been responsible for providing life-saving first aid training for thousands of people, are coming to Burnley.

Joanne and Dan Thompson, who founded Millie’s Trust in memory of their daughter who died when she was just nine-months-old after choking on food at nursery in 2012, are to run a family first aid awareness course. After the tragedy the couple focused their energy on setting up the charity that is devoted to raising awareness of how important first aid is and also running training courses which they believe everyone should be entitled to.

Joanne, who is from Burnley and Dan, along with a team of fully trained volunteers, now plan and host child and baby first aid courses for anyone, including parents and grandparents aswell as nursery workers.

Thousands of people across the UK and Ireland have received first aid training and two years ago the couple, who live in Wilmslow and now have a baby son Leo, took their campaign to the heart of the Government, meeting with ministers to make their mission, which includes compulsory first aid training for all schoolchildren, law. Millie’s Mark is now the new quality mark for excellence in Paediatric First Aid for early years settings administered by the National Day Nurseries Association and it was created by the Department for Education following a very successful petition by the Thompsons. Joanne, who is a former pupil of Padiham Primary and Ivy Bank High, Burnley, schools, was named as Lorraine Kelly’s Inspirational Woman of the Year in 2014.

The first aid course will run from 10am to 4pm on Tuesday, August 1st at Burnley Fire Station. Topics covered include an introduction to first aid, CPR, choking, the recovery position, bleeds and burns, allergies, febrile convulsions and seizures, meningitis and broken bones. All those attending will receive a certificate of attendance. For anyone with a child under the age of 12 months or are struggling to leave a donation, the course is free. If you are not in this bracket a donation of £20 is suggested. All attendees will be asked to leave a £20 deposit to secure each place that is booked. Following your attendance on the course, you can leave the deposit as a donation or you can request a refund of the deposit back to you. Anyone not in a position to pay a £20 deposit to secure your place, is asked to contact [email protected] so that other arrangements can be made.

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If you are the victim of an acid attack or witness one taking place, it’s important to act as quickly as possible to minimise damage to the eyes, skin and surrounding tissues.

Urgent first aid advice has been issued by ambulance officers after a corrosive substance was thrown over five people in 90 minutes last night in London.

One of the victims suffered “life-changing” facial injuries due to chemical burns caused by the acid, police said.

The first step to take if someone has been attacked with acid is to make sure the area around them is safe and to take measures, such as wearing gloves, so you don’t come into contact with the chemical.

“If the chemical is in powder form, it can be brushed off of the skin,” said the advice from St John’s Ambulance.

The charity warned people not to waste time searching for an antidote to the chemical, and not to attempt to neutralise burns caused by acids or alkalis unless properly trained.

The most effective action to take is to try and flood the burn with water to disperse the chemical and stop the burning, it said. Bottled water is fine for this if it is the only thing to hand.

Try and douse the burn with water for at least 20 minutes, ensuring that no contaminated puddles are allowed to collect under the victim.

While flooding the injury, try and gently remove any clothing with the substance on it and call an ambulance as soon as possible, while checking the casualty is still breathing and responsive.

If the substance has entered the victim’s eyes, hold their eye under gently running cold water for at least 10 minutes, thoroughly irrigating the eyelid both inside and out, said the first aid experts.

Do not allow the casualty to touch the injured eye, as they may have acid on their hands, and do not forcibly remove a contact lens.

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“Make sure that contaminated water does not splash the uninjured eye,” said the advice, adding someone helping should ask the casualty to hold a clean, non-fluffy pad over the injured eye, and arrange to send them to hospital.

Since 2010, there have been more than 1,800 reports of attacks using corrosive substances in London, according to the Metropolitan Police.

The number of acid attacks in the capital have increased from 261 in 2015 to 458 last year.

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A man who spent time living as a castaway on an Australian island has opened up about life with the nation’s most famous 74-year-old survivalist, David Glasheen — and the salty predators that lurk close by.

For years, the world has become enraptured by the story of the Australian millionaire turned castaway, who walked away from his life and became Australia’s real life Robinson Crusoe in 1997.

Last month marked his 20-year anniversary as a real-life renegade on Restoration Island — enduring the toughest landscapes in what has been described as the largest unspoilt wilderness in northern Australia and one of the last remaining wilderness areas on Earth.

“Dave told me, ‘only a mad man would think to swim carelessly in these waters’,” visitor Alvaro Cerezo told news.com.au.

Island castaway David Glasheen lives on remote Restoration Island off the coast of north Queensland near Lockhart River. Picture: Brian CasseySource:Supplied

Alvaro Cerezo on Restoration Island.Source:Supplied

Mr Glasheen offers the island to visitors, but in a chat with news.com.au recently he expressed just how difficult the journey can sometimes be.

“If things go wrong, your life is at risk and you’re really aware of it,” Mr Glasheen said.

“The wild is pretty severe, it’s a tough world. Things are forever going wrong, and you’ve just got to deal with it.

“You’ve got to work with the elements. People assume you turn the tap on and the water comes out. You start to realise it’s not like that. You’re in charge of all that here.”

Mr Cerezo spent five days on Restoration Island in 2015 after connecting with Mr Glasheen through a private island broker friend the pair share. It was only last month that he shared his incredible journey on the “very inhospitable” island.

“When you are on Restoration Island, you cannot see any light from the mainland at night and neither from any boat,” Mr Cerezo told news.com.au.

“That is something I really appreciate when being on a secluded island.”

Mr Cerezo, whose business it is to find idyllic islands and host private visitors, says it was his first time surviving on an Australian island and was “surprised” by the number of predators surrounding Mr Glasheen’s camp.

Except for the annual grocery shop to Cairns, Mr Glasheen spends most of his time on the island, where he has lived in a renovated WWII outpost.

Despite his plans to build a health retreat on the island, he describes his home as a “bush camp” with a “five-star environment” and “half-star accommodation”.

But Mr Cerezo warned the threat or menace of crocodiles on Restoration Island is “very real”.

“According to Dave, there are crocodiles watching him from the water many afternoons while he works.

“Predators is a major issue in this part of the world, Australia is really a different country,” Mr Mr Cerezo said.

He said swimming and scuba diving in the area was off-limits due to the enormous risk of a salt water crocodile attack. In fact Mr Glasheen’s former dog, Quassi, survived two attacks before succumbing to a Taipan snake’s bite. The inland taipan is the most venomous snake in the world.

Along with crocodiles and snakes, tiger sharks and great white sharks are known to lurk around the beaches. Insects, including the weaver ant, which spray formic acid onto its victims, also produce unusual smells.

“The island was nice, but you don’t feel as safe as most other desert islands. I wouldn’t be fully relaxed while snorkelling deep in the sea as crocodiles may be staring at you from the distance. I wouldn’t sleep near the shore because you never know.”

Mr Cerezo said after five days with Mr Glasheen, he was “extremely social and talkative”.

“I think he definitely became more human. He used to be was very materialistic in the past.

“During the past few years I have spent some time with other castaways like him on their desert islands and these other castaways were always a bit eccentric and complicated. Dave was a really easy going person.”

A stock market millionaire in the ‘80s, Mr Glasheen was living the high life in Sydney as the chairman of a Sydney-based company that specialised in gold mining in Papua New Guinea.

At this stage he was worth a cool US$28.4 million, which he invested in luxury real estate along Sydney Harbour. But after the “Black Tuesday” crash (known to the rest of the world as the Black Monday crash) on October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones dropped a record 508 points, and subsequently, Glasheen’s stock began to rapidly drop too.

“I got whacked, I wasn’t aware it was going to happen. I should have sold the whole lot [of stocks].”

Mr Glasheen lost $7.25 million that day alone, and the next few years would see his life spiral into bankruptcy and a broken family that couldn’t be pieced back together; he divorced his wife in 1991.

By 1993, after the banks had moved in, Mr Glasheen heard of a lease available on an undeveloped 64-acre island within a national park in Cape York, on Australia’s remote peninsula: Restoration Island.

David Glasheen, pictured with his former dog Quasi, had previously joined an online dating agency to try and meet a woman to share his island home. Picture: Brian CasseySource:News Limited

David Glasheen with Quasi and mannequin mate.Source:News Limited

For Mr Glasheen, this island existence is the perfect paradise. He says Australians are famously “mean”, but wouldn’t want to live any where else in the world. He has no motive to move back to the mainland, and plans to take his last breath here. He doesn’t see the point of living “outside” of the island.

“I’ve been offered places elsewhere in other countries. I love Australia, it’s a great country, it’s just got a lot of stupid people, that’s the problem.

“We don’t appreciate how good the place is, it is one of the greatest places on earth, I don’t know a better place and I’ve travelled a fair bit.”

But Mr Cerezo says his time on Restoration Island is a wakeup call to the difficulties of island life. Despite this, he agrees, Mr Glasheen isn’t going anywhere.

“He is very determined. He won’t move from the island for ‘all the money in the world’,” Mr Cerezo said.

“I wouldn’t recommend this kind of life to everyone. In my life I have met so many people that one day decided to live on a private island, but after a year they gave up.”

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Farmer Glen Rowe, from Victoria’s Wimmera, told 9NEWS he didn’t think twice about getting up close and personal with his six-year-old kelpie Jack after the dog strangled himself on his farm.

“He’s my main man on the farm, very important to have a good sheepdog,” Mr Rowe said.

Jack became strangled after he fell from a quad bike while attached to a lead. (9NEWS)

Jack found himself strangled after he fell off the back of Glen’s four-wheel motorbike while still attached to his lead.

“[I] thought, gee whiz, I got to get him going. So I lied down on the back of the motorbike and pressed on his chest.”

The farmer realised the chest compressions wouldn’t save Jack so he resorted to mouth to nose resuscitation.

“So I put my hand over his nose and blew into his nose and did that a few times then he started to breathe,” he said.

Jack, 6, provides vital help around Mr Rowe’s farm. (9NEWS)

Not long after, Jack began to perk up.

“I thought, you beauty, this is working!” Mr Rowe said.

Jack has spent his life by Glen’s side helping round up sheep and although they are close, Mr Rowe said he never even lets Jack lick him.

“I’m not one of these people who let the dog lick them. Yeah, you do love your animals you get a lot of satisfaction from animals.”

‘You beauty this is working!’ Farmer Glen successfully perfomed CPR on Jack. (9NEWS)

The RSPCA said the outcome of Mr Rowe’s effort is remarkable.

It said CPR is important in an emergency and recommends following the same course of action if needed.

Pet owners are advised to begin compression if no heartbeat is found and then to check the airways to make sure everything is clear before starting mouth to mouth.

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Mylan, which last year came under fire for hiking the price of the lifesaving emergency allergy treatment by 400 per cent, held its annual general meeting last Thursday, where shareholders rejected an executive compensation plan which included a $US97.6 million package for Robert Coury.

According The Washington Post, the non-binding vote was led by major proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services, which described Mr Coury’s pay packet as “egregious”.

It’s only the third company in the S&P 500 index this year to not receive a majority of shareholder support for its executive compensation plan, and Mylan is only one of four companies in the index that has failed the vote more than once since 2011.

“This is a company that’s had broad dissent from their pay package year after year, and hasn’t seemed to adequately respond to shareholder criticism,” ISS head John Roe told The Washington Post.

EpiPens are used to treat life-threatening allergic reactions from bee stings, food allergies or other triggers. Mylan has a near monopoly on the product, which sufferers must replace every year.

Mylan chief executive Heather Bresch was last year dubbed the “the Martin Shkreli of allergies” by critics who likened the EpiPen price hikes to the former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO’s infamous 5000 per cent increase in the cost of HIV medication Daraprim.

Ms Bresch was paid $18.2 million ($US13.8 million) in 2016, down from $25 million ($US18.9 million) in 2015.

In a statement to the newspaper, a Mylan spokeswoman said the board would “carefully consider these results, as well as future shareholder input, as we continue our investor outreach and in designing our compensation programs going forward”.

She said that any allegations of disregard for consumers, government officials, shareholders, regulators or any other of our valued stakeholders are patently false and wholly inconsistent with the company’s culture, mission and track record of delivering access to medicine”.