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First Official CPR/AED Awareness Week
June 1- 7, 2008

In December of 2007, Congress declared the first week of June each year as National CPR/AED Awareness Week. This year, June 1-7, 2008 will mark the first official observance. Organizations are being encouraged to establish organized programs to ensure proper response to any emergency, providing CPR and AED Training and increase public access to AEDs.

Sudden Cardiac Arrest is one of the leading causes of death in the United States each year. It affects more that 200,000 Americans each year; that is nearly one death every two minutes. Up to 50,000 of these deaths could have been prevented if someone had initiated the Cardiac Chain of Survival (which includes early access to care and early CPR), and an automated external defibrillator (AED) had been available for immediate use at the time of the emergency.

What are some things you can do in your workplace?

• Encourage work group discussions about Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA).
• Refresh emergency equipment locations and emergency procedures with employees.
• Conducting CPR/AED and first aid training is something you can do now to protect the longterm safety of your employees.
• Placement of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) can save lives of workers who experience cardiac arrest while on the job, OSHA, on December 17, 2001, encouraged employers to consider making this equipment available in their workplaces.
• Become a company that is trained, equipped and prepared to respond to any foreseeable emergency.
• Educate! If someone collapsed from cardiac arrest at your workplace today, how quickly could emergency personnel arrive at your site? What are the victim's chances of survival? Unfortunately, the answers give little room for reliance on a phone call to 9-1-1. Average EMS response time in the United States is at least 10 minutes. Even with the best EMS response, cardiac arrest survival rates drop by 10% for every minute defibrillation is delayed. "An employer has an obligation to provide to all employees a safe and healthy workplace." OSHA 93-01

Please join O S H, inc. in celebrating the first declared National CPR/AED Awareness Week.

Coordinate or get involved in a CPR and AED Awareness Week event in your workplace.

June 29, 2007

O S H, inc. is exceptionally proud to announce that A. Blane Morgan was selected as the Saxcies Safety Trainer of the Year for 2007 by SafetyXChange. At the 2007 American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) conference in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday, June 26th, Blane was given top honors for his dedication to safety education, preserving the safety of O S H, inc client’s employees, and making certain that “we all go home to our families safely every night.”

Receiving this prestigious industry award from Catherine Jones, Editor in Chief of SafetyXChange, and Mark Ziebarth, President of Bongarde, Inc, a safety supply company, Blane commented, “I accepted the award on behalf of all the people I have worked with at O S H, inc. which has led to this recognition; I can’t wait to get home to share it with you!”

Blane has made safety and public service his every day life, providing life saving safety education and preparatory training to thousands of people. His experience as a EMT, firefighter and safety professional has given client’s employees the tools and insight to keep their workplace safe for themselves, coworkers and for customers.

Congratulations Blane and thanks for all that you do for us!

The American Heart Association has released it's 2005 Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care. 

Please see the following correspondence from Philips Medical Systems regarding how these changes will affect the Philips HeartSaver AED's. 
O S H, inc. will be initiating a program to contact each customer to discuss the choices available to upgrade your AED to the new American Heart Association recommendations. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our offices.

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