Savannah River Remediation (South Carolina) is implementing a virtual reality program to help new employees get a feel for walking in unfamiliar and unusual environments where tripping hazards can be common. In virtual reality, users wear a headpiece with goggles, foot and belt sensors, and hold hand controllers while “walking” through the simulations.
When it comes to preparing for medical emergencies, there's only so much firefighters can learn from practicing on mannequins. That's why, for the second year, the Rochester (Minn.) Fire Department is partnering with Mayo Clinic's Multidisciplinary Simulation Center to give its crew a hyper-realistic training.
The American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) has published the first U.S. industry consensus standard written specifically for the construction and demolition of wind turbines. ANSI/ASSP A10.21-2018 was approved in April by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). ASSP is secretariat of the A10 Accredited Standards Committee.
June is National Safety Month, an opportunity to help prevent unnecessary injuries and deaths at work, on the roads, and in our homes and communities. With this year’s theme, No 1 Gets Hurt, we are encouraging readers to think of at least one change you can make to improve safety this month.
The Rhode Island General Assembly approved a bill last fall mandating that public places in Rhode Island capable of holding 300 or more people have an automated external defibrillator (AED) and a qualified person to administer it.
Most U.S. employees are not prepared to handle cardiac emergencies in the workplace because they lack training in CPR and First Aid, according to new survey results from the American Heart Association (AHA), the world’s leading voluntary health organization devoted to fighting cardiovascular disease.
Workplace success stories with AEDs are nothing new. Take for example ArvinMeritor, Inc. , which manufactures integrated systems and modules for passenger cars and light trucks. It has 150 manufacturing facilities worldwide. Many of these facilities are in very remote areas. After experiencing five sudden death cardiac arrests in recent years, ArvinMeritor, Inc., in 2005 initiated a Cardiac Arrest Response System (CARS) that includes placing Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) in all 150 of the company's manufacturing sites worldwide.
Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are an important lifesaving technology and may have a role to play in treating workplace cardiac arrest. Most sudden cardiac deaths occur outside of the hospital.
It is estimated that 5 percent or less of victims of sudden cardiac deaths are successfully resuscitated and discharged alive from the hospital.
National CPR and AED Awareness Week is June 1-7, and the American Red Cross encourages people to get trained in CPR and how to use an automated external defibrillator (AED). Jenifer Fox, a recent University of Washington (UW) graduate, knows first-hand how CPR can save a life.
On any given day, educational institutions house more than 20 percent of the U.S. population. As such, educational settings are ideal locations for AED deployment.
In the past, concerns regarding legal liability and litigation have been perceived as a barrier to purchasing and deploying AEDs.
