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| Insurance for your Public Access Defibrillator Programme
Introduction
We will again continue our previous topics regarding CPR and the use of a defibrillator, but we interrupt that for some important news.
Insurance
Southern Safety are pleased to be involved with a number of Public Access Defibrillator programmes around Ireland. There are various types of programme in operation but the one thing they have in common is the desire to offer the best available programme to their community in order to save lives.
There are AED's in GAA and soccer clubhouses, schools and businesses and on the walls of communities all over Ireland, there are a great many Public Access programmes in Ireland, but there is no template for a programme or definitive advice on how to access a defibrillator.
Many public access programmes have their AED’s in locked boxes in their communities. This is usually because of the very real fear of theft or vandalism and partly because no insurance company would insure an AED stored in a publicly accessible cabinet.
This has now changed. The Michael Linehan HeartSafe Programme in Killarney always desired to have their AED’s available to the public at all times but the lack of insurance was a severe deterrent to this and was a source of delay.
This has now been resolved and brand new, heated AED cabinets with “Break Glass to Access” defibrillators will begin to appear around Killarney in the coming weeks.
Over one hundred people have been trained in the community to date, putting the programme well on target to train four hundred people in the first year. Each of these now knows they can access the AED at any time without the need to wait for a key or a code, greatly cutting down the waiting time in the first, vital few minutes.
There are a small number of easily satisfied conditions relating to this, we would be happy to discuss these at any time.
Please contact us for further information.
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