Raising employee awareness of cardiac arrest and lifesaving techniques

Employers are required by law to train certain employees in lifesaving techniques to combat cardiac arrest and reinforce prevention in the workplace.

Marie Faucon
EHS Consultant
Update : 
12.09.2025
Publication: 
14.03.2023
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Cardiac arrest is responsible for between 40,000 and 50,000 adult deaths a year in France. A third of victims are under 55, and almost 800 cases of sudden death occur during sporting activities.

In order to increase the number of people trained in cardiac arrest prevention and life-saving techniques, regulations require that certain employees be trained in these techniques.

Who are the employees concerned by this awareness campaign?

The employer must offer it to employees before they retire.

What are the objectives?

This awareness-raising program enables employees to acquire the skills needed to :

  • ensure your own safety, that of the victim or any other person, and provide the emergency services with the information they need to intervene;
  • react to external bleeding and place the victim in an appropriate waiting position;
  • react to a victim in cardiac arrest and use an automated external defibrillator.

How?

Time devoted to raising awareness is considered as working time.

It must take place during normal working hours.

Who can deliver it?

Possible adaptations?

Awareness-raising can be adapted for employees holding certain certificates or attestations. For example, :

  • occupational first-aid (SST ) ;
  • Level 1 civic prevention and first aid (PSC1) ;
  • level 1 team first aid (PSE1) ;
  • level 2 team first aid (PSE2).

All the certificates and attestations concerned are listed in article 2 of the order of September 7, 2022.

In this case, the certificate or attestation must be valid or less than 10 years old.

This adaptation takes the form of information transmitted by any means (e.g. paper, e-mail) on the importance of keeping their skills up to date.

Conclusion

We invite you to review the situation with your training department, so that you can offer this awareness-raising program to employees before they retire.

  • Code du travail Article L. 1237-9-1 / Created by law n°2020-840 of July 3, 2020 [JORF of July 4, 2020]
  • Code du travail Articles D. 1237-2-2 to D. 1237-2-3 / Created by Decree no. 2021-469 of April 19, 2021 [JORF of April 20, 2021].
  • Order of September 7, 2022 relating to cardiac arrest awareness and lifesaving techniques [JORF of September 7, 2022].

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