When bitten by a snake, you should do these things first

When the warmer seasons see a spike in temperature, it’s important to educate your workers as part of their health and safety practices.
Discuss what to do if anyone is bitten by a snake, where snake bites commonly occur, and the importance of identifying deadly snakes.

The Royal Flying Doctors Service (RFDS) has estimated that there are around 3,000 snake bites in Australia every year, with recent figures recording 550 hospitalisations and two deaths due to snake bites each year.

According to both the RFDS and the Australian Snakebite Project, in attacks where the snake was positively identified, the brown snake was the most common biter (41%), followed by the tiger snake (17%) and red-bellied black snake (16%). Three-quarters of the people bitten by snakes are males in their 30s—a common demographic among Australian farmers.

Despite popular opinion that snake bites happen out in the bush, the RFDS recorded that 57% of snake bites actually occur near houses, not in the bush. Half of all bites occurred while people were out walking, with gardening and trying to catch a snake the most common other scenarios.