Arriva installs defibrillators May 1st 2007 Public transport company Arriva
London has taken delivery of 16
HeartStart first aid defibrillators
from Laerdal Medical.
The compact, life-saving
machines are deployed in each of
Arriva's London garages for use
should staff, visitors or customers
suffer a sudden cardiac arrest.
Danny Collins, Arriva's
Premises and Services
Manager for the London area
and first-aider at the its head
office in Wood Green says "As
a result of a tragedy in which
a visitor in his mid-thirties
went into sudden cardiac
arrest in the head office
carpark and subsequently
died, we devised a scheme to
purchase one Laerdal Heartstart
defibrillator for head office to start
with and, with the support of
Arriva's directors, deploy
defibrillators at all of Arriva's
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