Initiative to reduce number of deaths in training and recruitment industry

Health and safety neglect currently costs Britainís employers up to 6.5bn each year and 70% of accidents could be prevented if employers put proper preventative measures in place.

One of the biggest risks in the workplace is stress related heart problems and although employers can offer advice to their workforce on how to minimise stress at work, being prepared on site for heart-related disorders, such as cardiac arrest, is the ultimate health and safety precaution.

Trust Medical, provider of a unique, comprehensive first aid and lifesaving solution, has launched an initiative to help prevent cardiac deaths for training & recruitment workers which will provide the right training and equipment to tackle serious heart problems at work.

Trust Medical supplies automated external defibrillators (AED) for workplaces and training, which is overseen by NHS state registered paramedics. The AEDs are manufactured by global healthcare leader, Philips Medical Systems.

People with stressful jobs are twice as likely to die from heart problems than their unstressed colleagues , highlighting a definite link between workplace pressure and
Cardiovascular disease. More than 1,750 people die of cardiac arrest every week with the most common time to suffer an attack being between 8.00 and 11.00 in the morning.

Currently only 5% of UK cardiac arrest victims survive and yet this figure would increase to 90% if victims were defibrillated within one minute of an attack.

Abe Elkinson, director, Trust Medical says: ìSpeed is key in the fight against cardiac arrest - for every minute that passes with no treatment, the chances of survival decrease by 10%. This is why being prepared is so important. In the workplace, defibrillators should be thought of like fire extinguishers, they should be easily accessible.î

Trust Medical is pledging to raise the level of awareness of first aid in the training & recruitment industry and reduce the number of deaths with the launch of an innovative lifesaving package which will train workers in how to operate an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) and potentially save a colleagueís life.

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