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All employers must have Automated External Defibrillators.

Submitted by Roberto Salamanca on Tuesday 14th March 2023

Published on Friday 17th March 2023

Current status: Closed

Closed: Sunday 17th September 2023

Signatures: 47

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All employers must have Automated External Defibrillators.

Petition Details

Mandate in legislation, specifically First Aid Regulations 1981 to ensure all employers have at least 1 AED (Automated External Defibrillator) available on their site, based on the employers first aid risk assessment.

Additional Information

Heart and circulatory diseases cause a quarter of all deaths in the UK, that’s more than 160,000 deaths each year – an average of 460 deaths each day or one every three minutes in the UK.
In the UK there are as many as 100,000 hospital admissions each year due to heart attacks: that's one every five minutes.
More than 900,000 people in the UK are living with heart failure.
Strokes cause around 34,000 deaths in the UK each year and are the biggest cause of severe disability in the UK.
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