TRAINING SAVE TO LIVES

摘要

From teaching CPR to making sure employees know the proper way to call 911, safety-focused scrap processors know that good training can make the difference between life and death. If an employee, customer, or visitor had a heart attack or suffered a life-threatening injury at your worksite, would you-or anyone else there-know what to do? If so, could you do it quickly enough? In the worst cases of cardiac arrest-when the heart actually stops-the window of lifesaving opportunity is narrow. "You've got four to six minutes-alter that, the person's gone," says Mike Mattia, ISRI's director of risk management. "You could be right next to a fire station, and even they couldn't get there in time." Even if the person's heart is restarted after those six minutes, he or she will likely suffer brain damage, notes Mattia, whose background includes five years with a fire department rescue team.