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Shopping Centers Today -> April 2002
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IPC INITIATES CPR TRAINING
IPC International Corp., Bannockburn, Ill., has established a National Corporate Training Center in cooperation with the American Heart Association to train thousands of its security employees in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Among other things, staff will learn to use automated external defibrillator (AED) machines to help resuscitate cardiac arrest victims, said Richard Schur, vice president of training and development at IPC International.
Initially, said Schur, the American Heart Association will train IPC employees throughout the United States as CPR instructors. The training takes about six hours. Once IPC has built up a pool of instructors, it will train its own employees.
“Over a year, we will have trained several thousand employees,” Schur said.
The idea is to allow IPC security officers to provide lifesaving services to the mall patrons that they also watch over and to routinely offer such services as a standard part of the company’s mall security measures, he said.
For more than two years, IPC has been putting AEDs in the properties where it provides security. The devices analyze the heart rhythm, determine whether a person is in cardiac arrest, advise the user on when to activate a shock and then deliver it when necessary.
“The security industry is ideal for making sure that timely response is available in every community,” said Mike Bell, director of training and field operations at the American Heart Association. “It’s absolutely critical that officers are trained in these lifesaving resuscitation practices.”
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