In a push to save lives in the event of heart attacks on the job, Labour Minister David Piccini is proposing legislation to require automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) at Ontario construction sites with more than 20 workers.
Piccini will announce Friday in Whitby that construction firms can apply for reimbursement for the $2,300 machines.
“Every second counts in a cardiac emergency,” Piccini said in a statement obtained by the Star. AEDs are already in a number of locations across the province.
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The Heart and Stroke Foundation says putting them on construction sites is a “step forward” given that 60,000 cardiac arrests take place outside hospitals in Canada every year. Â
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