 this Thursday afternoon. Now coming up next Monday is restart a heart day and did you know that more than 70% of cardiac arrests actually happen in the home and that every year here in Ireland almost 5,000 people die from sudden cardiac arrest and often it can be well it's not that the heart sex can be prevented but a fatality can be prevented if CPR is done and done quickly and done correctly and to that end safe tech in letter Kenny they're located at Riverside Retail Park are having some free slots to teach CPR and AD. There's two four-hour slots actually that's available to book one at nine in the morning and one at half past three and booking is essential as numbers are limited. Well the managing director there Maria Sweeney now joins us. Maria it's important I suppose we should all really know how to do CPR and I remember I was doing a bit of coaching years ago and and did a like a half morning but then you know time moves on and you forget how to do it so it should be should be topped up every so often. At least minimum every two years it should be topped up John. So the programs that we're running on Monday are cardiac first responder programs and the successful participants at the end of the the programs we'll receive a two year certificate from FEC. And it'll cover it'll cover the basics. Yeah it's basically concentrates on CPR and the AD or defibrillator. Yeah and it's yeah because there's more defibrillators now around than we ever had but you know it's all very well having access to one but then it can just you know for most people it's just and they're in a panic situation as it is and then somebody says well there's a defibrillator here and then does anybody know how to use it? Yeah exactly that can happen quite often like what I would do I would encourage anybody whether they're sitting in their workplace today or sitting at home even just go on and do a search you know for your nearest defibrillator just before I came in just there now I did the search for the nearest one to Highland Radio so yeah do you know where it is John? I think it's over Kelly's. Yeah right answer yeah so like it's really it's really good to know this just in case something like that does happen so absolutely yeah and it can happen when we least expect it so it's you know it's better been forewarned and or forearmed I suppose yeah and these there's two there's four slots and there's two of them available one in the morning one in the afternoon and it's and it's a great idea to mark your restart a hard day and and it fits in well I suppose for what you do at Safe Tech I just went online just to have a look at and it's a long list and award-winning because it's about all sorts of training and consulting. Just there in March we were 20 years running so yeah so we've been adding on different programs and services over the years John so it's anytime I've been to the Chamber Awards your name always seems to come up so training programs and this is but you know I suppose it's like you say they're 20 years but over those 20 years a lot has changed out there in the workforce and now you you know there's a lot of training for just ordinary everyday jobs like around us here and then for the sort of careers and jobs that you would expect specialized training and I'm thinking about maybe you know in construction or working at height you cover them all yeah we cover them all like and we we sort of work to demand like for example in the last few years we've been in like electrofusion programs and we've started running the ATV programs now in relation to the new legislation that's coming in for quad bikes and so it's coming in now in the 20th of November where all construction family or sorry construction farm sector must have this certificate now to actually operate a quad bike or an ATVs they call it okay okay and yeah health and safety work first aid and just looking down through the the list of things that you do there and cpcs carrots what are those yeah so we are the only company in republic of Ireland that provides the construction plant carrots and construction site safety carrots for the uk oh for the uk yeah and that's where that's where they fall in that's the plant carrots for the uk yeah but then there's there's there's similar rules and regulations about getting on on sites here because I mentioned construction but you know it's it's it's and it's very important yeah um but you need you need the the search or the cards now to get on a site and work and work there yeah and working for utilities I see here as well and you know even child care yeah you've done so much research yeah like child care like all the sectors um health care child care um you name it we we try and and manual handling of goods and people because there's there's a skill attached to you know let's say you you're a care assistant or something and you you know you have to physically um lift people to help them yeah there's there's a way to do it yeah so we have centers all around well we have five centers in Ireland so we actually deliver nationwide um and yeah people movement handling is one of the one of the popular ones and that has to be refreshed refreshed every three years so um yeah it's it's quite popular and are there when you do a lot of these training programs are there a lot of certificates and so on that do have to be refreshed yeah most of them do there's there are a few certificates out there like the likes of qqi possibly and nvqs where there where there's no um expiry date on them but most there you know they do have expiry dates and you have to refresh before the expiry date and I'm guessing that you deliver these programs in a variety of settings because can't all be done down uh down at the riverside some of them's online and then some of them out on sites and places yeah like since covid the only one good thing that came out of covid was we we started doing loads of programs remotely so we deliver to where it doesn't matter where you are now in the uk scotland cork whatever we can we can deliver to you so yeah that was you can reach you can reach them yeah we have a plant center in drum king that's where we deliver all our machinery courses and all and we've sent her in gallway cork and Dublin so um big operation busy yeah it's quite busy many people's employed at the minute 27 yeah okay now just going going back to um restart a heart day i just remind people that there's two four slots available but you have to book yeah you book you can either book through facebook or um just ring into the office and just give your name and your email address and and and pick your slot the slots are starting at nine o'clock and at one thirty so whichever one you prefer and they are free and they're free yeah yeah okay and uh a great opportunity for not just individuals as well but maybe maybe groups who might like to you know come along um whether from a workforce or just a group that you gathered up to learn about cpr techniques and life saving skills so that is for next monday but please do book in advance go on to facebook or call uh safe tech and the number is yeah so it's zero seven four nine one two seven seven eight six great well the the best of luck with that maria thank you very much okay then talk to you later thank you