Posted By Melanie Farrow as a London Borough we are looking at the need for the provision and use of defibrillators (along with all the necessary training) in our main council buildings under our wellbeing agenda but are meeting with some opposition from our insurers. I would really appreciate any information/comments you can offer on this subject if your employees use this equipment, e.g. Process, how you dealt with insurance, who your insurer is, are you self insured, suitable staff, payments to staff, where was equipment purchased from and sited, what training provider did you use etc. If you haven’t yet ventured into this area, do you have any other arrangements in place for resuscitation other than First Aiders in buildings

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Posted By Dr. Will Andrews Melanie, I agree with David, liability to organisations with properly installed AED programmes is less than without AEDs. The trick is to get the programme 1. overseen and signed-off by doctors as recommended by the UK Resus Council and 2. to have all the other elements you asked about, hardware, maintenance, training, admin. help included in your programme by a fully-insured specialist in this area. This shouldn't work out any more expensive than doing it yourself. Small plug at the end, I started a specialist organisation specifically to do all this and would be delighted to answer any further questions. wa@wellbeing1st.com