Workplace Health, LLC

10/31/2025

Make sure you visit our Bluegrass Med Care Page to vote for your favorite pumpkin!

10/17/2025

10/13/2025

October is Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) Awareness Month and serves as a reminder that SCA emergencies can happen to anyone without warning. Knowing what to do in the first minutes of SCA is critical, and with high-quality CPR and AED training, ordinary people can become lifesavers.

As reported by the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation there are more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests each year. In other words, SCA affects 1,000 people of all ages each and every day. Tragically, nearly 90% of SCAs are fatal.

When SCA happens, even small delays in emergency response matter. For every minute that passes without CPR and defibrillation with an AED, a victim’s chance of survival decreases substantially. Bystander CPR can double or triple the odds of survival compared to doing nothing. Yet, despite this well-established fact, only about 40% of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims receive bystander CPR before EMS arrives.

These facts speak to why it’s important to empower more people with high-quality training and the confidence to act!

Awareness is an important first step in increasing bystander response to SCA. In addition, SCA Awareness Month gives us an opportunity to:

Educate more people about recognizing sudden cardiac arrest versus a heart attack.
Motivate communities who can broadly adopt the basics of “Call — Push — Shock”: call 911, provide CPR, and use an AED if available.
Promote installation and accessibility of AEDs in schools, workplaces, and public spaces.

To improve SCA outcomes, we talk about the Chain of Survival, a sequence of actions that can dramatically increase survival rates. The first three links in the chain — early recognition, immediate CPR, and defibrillation — are actions that everyday people can take before EMS arrives.

Here’s what you can do:
Recognize cardiac arrest & call 911
Start CPR immediately
Use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
Perform these steps in rapid succession to increase the chances of survival from SCA.

Without trained bystanders, the Chain of Survival breaks. By becoming fully certified in CPR and AED training, you equip yourself with the muscle memory, decision-making skills, and confidence needed to step in when seconds count.

Here’s how full-certification training helps:
Reduces hesitation — practice helps you to act decisively under pressure.
Improves technique — hands-on skills practice allows you to refine and improve your CPR technique.
Strengthens confidence — when you know what to do, you’re more likely to act when needed.
Supports systematic readiness — certification training for employees bolsters workplace emergency plans.

What You Can Do This Month
Schedule a CPR and AED training class.
Encourage others. Invite co-workers and friends to train alongside you.
Help place AEDs. Check your workplace to ensure an AED is accessible, visible, and maintained.
Spread the message. Use social media, community forums, or your networks to promote SCA awareness and preparedness.❤️

10/06/2025

07/29/2025

How can you keep up with every employee's hydration every couple of hours?!? You can't, but they can.

This is one of our favorite charts from the military. Copy and post these in restrooms and employees can look at their own urine to gauge if they are hydrating well enough. By the time they get thirsty they are already behind.

Remember to encourage frequent breaks, use shade or available air conditioning, hydrate, consider altering work assignments to avoid the hottest parts of the day, and review signs & symptoms and first aid for heat injuries.

07/25/2025

We are seeing a LOT of heat-related illnesses and injuries recently! Take a minute with your staff to review signs & symptoms of the different heat problems and how to treat them. Attached are English and Spanish versions of a CDC flyer for you to print and post. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us!

07/02/2025

OSHA's Safe & Sound Week is coming up! This is a great free program with a lot of safety resources you can use year-round to improve your safety program as well as ways for employees to participate in-house and with social media. And they have added a TON of new stuff this year. Consider signing up (it's free!) and having a look for yourself.

06/26/2025

Harnesses for the win!

06/22/2025

If you use Phillips AED products, a recent change with our supplier now allows you to order supplies and equipment directly. Give yourself a discount! Go to https://lnkd.in/etxMdkEc and use the code "workplace10" for 10% off all products on that site.

If you use other brands, you can still contact us directly to place orders.

05/25/2025

Happy Memorial Day weekend!

Please take some time during your celebrating to remember why we can celebrate. We take this time to remember the men and women of our armed services who have fallen in defense of our nation. May God forever keep them in His service, bless their families, and continue to bless our country.

05/19/2025

Beginning around 8 AM on Monday, May 19th, all of the 9 NOAA Weather Radio broadcasts provided by the NWS Louisville office will go offline for the duration of an update. NOAA Weather broadcasts are expected to return to service sometime on Wednesday, May 21st.

The National Weather Service (NWS) Louisville, KY office will be conducting a required, scheduled update to the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) from Monday May 19th through Wednesday May 21st. The NWS uses the AWIPS computer system to display and integrate weather and water information, and to send life-saving information, such as weather and water warnings, to the public.

During the time of this update, forecast and warning operations will be conducted by service back-up offices in Paducah (PAH) and/or Indianapolis (IND) to minimize any potential interruption to services. No impacts to our core services of forecast products and weather watches, warnings and advisories are expected during this period. The KLVX radar will remain operational, and its products will continue to be distributed as normal. The NWS Louisville office will remain open and staffed at all hours throughout this update period to help support the NWS Paducah and Indianapolis offices, answer public and partner phone calls, and additional functions that can be completed without AWIPS.

However, impacts will occur to the NOAA Weather Radio transmitters that are maintained by the NWS Louisville office and serve central Kentucky and South-Central Indiana.

During periods of planned or unplanned outages it is important to have multiple ways to receive warning information. These alternative sources include local television/radio, weather apps on your mobile device, such as the FEMA or Red Cross App, and at the NWS website at https://www.weather.gov/lmk.

A listing of NOAA Weather Radio transmitters that are broadcast from the NWS Louisville office can be found online at https://www.weather.gov/nwr/stations?State=KY.

05/19/2025

This week is National EMS Week, a tradition since 1974. We think that this week applies to those we work with because your on-site emergency response teams and first aid-trained staff are the very first link in assuring a good outcome when the unexpected happens in the workplace! Do you set aside time on a monthly basis for these staff to not only meet and talk about safety, but also practice their skills? Taking a class every two years is not enough to actually be ready when an emergency happens. Consider having frequent short reviews of common medical emergencies, skills practice and even setting up scenarios for both in-house and community responders. (By the way, we can help you with all of those things!

Take the time now to review how your emergency response plans interact with your local EMS services. As we talk about in the emergency classes we provide, make sure that you plan on how to get outside assistance to the patient's side as quickly as possible. Will they know what door to go to? Are staff on hand to meet and guide them through your plant when they arrive?