Safety of Students Operating in the Field - Essay Example

At the moment changing the clothing may take a long process. For this reason, this memo will provide some basic guidelines on how to handle a bee attack and avoid insects. Additionally, the memo will highlight the steps to be followed after a bee attack. The memo will also provide guidelines on how to treat and handle immediate stings and long terms management of bee stings.

Regardless of the color of the clothing, the students wear on the field these guidelines should be highly considered when preparing for fieldwork (Thomas & Scott, 56).
- Students should avoid strong scented colognes and body perfumes. Bees are easily attracted to strong scents. Considering that students are in bright attires, strong colognes make them easy targets of insects.
- Apart from the official students wear, students should avoid bright colored attires especially those with floral prints.
- During fieldwork students should avoid eating and drinking sugary drinks and food. Bees and wasps are easily attracted by the scent of sugar. This may increase the probability of a bee attack.
- Students should avoid walking barefooted while in the field. Some wasps make their nests on the ground and stepping on the nest one may get their foot stung. Additionally, bees may be sucking nectar from flowers on the ground walking barefoot may result in a string.
- Students should avoid flower gardens.
- In case of a bee sting, a student should consult a medical professional to remove the sting to minimize the effects of the sting.
- Most importantly, in case a bee settles on one's clothing one should remain still and keep calm not to provoke the bee.

In case of a bee sting, a person should as quickly as possible seek professional help to get the sting removed (Pearson, 112). The urgency in this case reduces the amount of venom that enters the body after the sting. After the sting has been removed swelling can be minimized by compressing the affected area with ice. Bee venom is acidic and applying a base on the wound at high volumes would effectively neutralize the venom (Stengler & Balch, 78).

All the concerned students are expected to follow the provided guidelines effectively and this would greatly reduce the increased cases of bee stings during fieldwork.