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Latest HSE Statistics YTD
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All injuries (excluding first aid cases)
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HSE TIP
First raiders are trained to use AED. Insure you know your first aider, AED location and location emergency numbers. AED must be located in a place where it is easily accessible at all time. This is why it is also known as Public Access Defibrillation (PAD).
 
 

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In the event of a cardiac arrest (the heart stops beating), the blood circulation shuts down, and without speedy intervention brain damage and death will follow. Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) performed by bystanders and fist aiders is critically and urgently required. This will result in restoring circulation of oxygenated blood to the vital organs including the brain. However CPR will not on its own restart the heart, it is just a holding measure. There are a number of heart (beats) rhythms that may cause heart to stop and not all are treatable.The treatment comprises of passing 

   

an electric shock thought the heart (defibrillation) to re-establish a normal rhythm. The defibrillation is conducted using Automatic External Defibrillator (AED), a portable electronic device that automatically diagnoses the potentially life threatening abnormal rhythms in a patient and able to correct to normal (sinus) rhythm and heart function. Modern AED are now fully automated and intuitive. They can be used by lay people with minimal training and Designated First Aiders (DFA) in conjunction with CPR. AED analyses the heart rhythm and instructs the responder what to do and when to press the button to deliver the electric shock.

 

What You Need to Know

 
 
First Aid:

It is a PDO requirement to administer first aid including defibrillation (AED) within 4 minutes. The 4 minute response time cannot be met if the defibrillator was only to be used by medical staff. This is why all Designated First Aiders are trained to deliver initial treatment including defibrillation within 4 minutes.

What is after AED?:

AED is followed by assessment and stabilization by a Medical Emergency Professional within one hour. Admission to and care at the nearest local hospital is expected within four hours.

Successful AED:

The chances of successful defibrillation using AED decrease by approximately 10% per minute, so after 10 minutes the chances of a success is almost Zero. In all cases the resuscitation should not be abandoned, unless directed by a medical professional.

 
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GUIDELINE FOR DEPLOYMENT OF AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS (AED) IN A WORKPLACE
There is not a single "formula'' to determine the appropriate number or location for AED deployment in a workplace.

Essential factors to consider when placing an AED include:
 

  • There is low risk of a heart (cardiac) event for an office population as compared to work camp population where employees live as well as work on site.  The risks increase several fold because of the number of hours on site. The greater the number of exposure hours the higher the likelihood of a cardiac event.

 

  • The number of employees at site as well as health risks profile of the population, ethnicity and demographics are also essential factors.
  • Work Areas: Facilities where strenuous work is carried out.
  • Physical layout of facility: Large facilities with several separate buildings.
  • Other considerations:  large off-site conferences and special events such as large company social gatherings.
Criteria for AED site selection:
 
  • A secure but easily accessible and visible publicized location away from the potential for tampering by illegitimate users or theft,

 

  • A nearby telephone to call backup MER and security personnel,
  • Possible locations include: security guard station/posts, large office building (main reception area, walls of main corridors, cafeteria), fitness facility, and assemble points,
  • Remote locations such as large warehouses, industrial complexes and camps, oil rigs, carrier vessels, ambulances, corporate aircrafts, sports facilities, and in restricted access areas,
  • AEDs are not intrinsically safe devices and it may not be possible to use them in all location or it may be necessary to have procedures for their safe use (e.g. gas testing prior to use).