As part of our commitment to community involvement, NECIT Services will be installing defibrillators in every NECIT van in their service fleet, providing a lifesaving service in emergency situations across the North East.
Following a charity event dinner hosted by Red Sky Foundation, attendees from NECIT Services were inspired by the organisation’s hard work raising vital funds to support cardiac care for infants, children and adults. One particular initiative Red Sky Foundation champions is increasing the availability of Community Public Access Defibrillators (cPADs) throughout northern England.
In the event of a cardiac arrest which takes place in an out-of-hospital setting, only one in ten people survive – largely down to a lack of access to a defibrillator. For every minute that defibrillation is delayed, the victim’s chance of survival falls by around 10%. Ensuring that there is a defibrillator available in public settings is therefore the best and most efficient way at improving these odds.
NECIT has therefore committed to installing one defibrillator in every service van at a rate of one per month. Our engineers travel across the region to deliver expert welding inspection and certification services, and will be able to take their defibrillator wherever they go for use in emergency situations. We will ensure they receive training on the correct use of the defibrillator, and NECIT will ensure that every machine is correctly maintained and ready for operation.
In addition to our fleet, we will also equip every college signed up as an approved NECIT examination centre with a cPAD, giving our communities readily available access to this medical technology for use in an emergency.
NECIT’s defibrillators will be registered on The Circuit, a database hosted by the British Heart Foundation which maps available machines to be quickly located by both civilians and healthcare professionals or paramedics for emergency use.
With these two initiatives working in tandem, this will mean NECIT’s network of emergency defibrillators will span the North East, increasing access to this lifesaving technology wherever a NECIT engineer ventures.
