06/27/2017

Prepare Your Staff for Workplace Emergencies

Consider following these three tips

Half of all U.S. workers don’t know where the office automated external defibrillator (AED) is located, according to two recent American Heart Association (AHA) surveys. And, because the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration estimates there are 10,000 cardiac arrests in the workplace each year, not knowing where an AED is kept or how to use it can be a big problem.

While the majority of American workers won’t ever need to use the office AED, if you do have to, it’s good to remember that “your adrenaline will be running high, and it helps to have that rote, muscle memory to really know where to get it,” said Robert Farmer, the senior vice president of human resources at Missoula Federal Credit Union and a member of the Society for Human Resource Management’s Special Expertise Panel.

But that leads to a broader question: How can associations prepare their employees to respond if an emergency medical situation does arise? Farmer shared three tips.

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