Defibrillator Training

In December 2016 the HSE (Health & Safety Executive) made it known to First Aid training providers that defibrillator training must now be included with all First Aid training in the workplace, this had been mentioned earlier in the year and many First Aid training providers began including the training in their workplace training courses, and Warwickshire First Aid Training has included the extra training as standard from August 2016.

If an AED (defibrillator) is required and used within the first 3 minutes of an incident then this can improve the survival rate of the casualty by around 70%. AEDs (defibrillators) are more commonplace these days they can be found in locked cabinets in public places and are accessible via ambulance control, many businesses have them on their sites these days too.

Types of defibrillator

Defibrillators come in 2 different types Automated and Semi-automated (correct at time of writing) and they all do exactly the same thing, they all give you voice prompts on what to do, where to attach leads, pads etc, Automated will give the casualty a shock automatically if required and the Semi-automated requires the user to press a button to deliver a shock to the casualty.

More companies are having them on site

We have certainly noticed an upward trend of companies having defibrillators on their sites, and also ensuring their own First Aiders have had adequate training to use them too and because before December 2016 many did not receive any training how to use them and so we have been running standalone courses with them to ensure they have the skills and knows how to use these machines safely, confidently, and competently.

Recently we did a couple of weeks First Aid training with a logistics company, and off the back of our first aid training with the company they doubled their defibrillators on all its sites and they also doubled the number of first aiders too, to ensure they had more than adequate cover so in the event of an incident it could be managed successfully.

If you want to find out more about our first aid courses, please get in touch with our Customer Service Team, they are very knowledgeable about all our first aid training courses and are able to answer any questions you may have too.