Lifesaving skills go off-road (From Worcester News)

Lifesaving skills go off-road

6:00am Friday 10th February 2012 in News

LIFESAVING skills and equipment can now be found at an off-road driving centre.

Eight members of staff at Land Rover Experience at Eastnor, near Ledbury, were trained in basic life support as well as CPR and defibrillation by West Midlands Ambulance Service trainer Diane Pearson.

It is the first Land Rover Experience site to have a defibrillator installed and it is hoped the new skills can be used throughout the village if and when required.

There will be a member of staff with basic life support training on site every day it is open, covering about 6,500 people who visit it and use its 50 miles of off-road tracks every year, as well as the 50,000 who visit the neighbouring Eastnor Castle.

Dave Griffiths, centre manager of Land Rover Experience at Eastnor, said: “It means we can look after our guests, our staff and people who visit the castle.

“It is part of our duty of care to those who visit us. We would be the first point of contact if anything happened to anyone in the village and we could be at the castle very quickly if a guest there had a cardiac arrest.”