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St John WA trains about 200,000 Western Australians including children in first aid as part of its commitment to building strong and resilient communities.
St John WA's First Aid Focus program delivers lifesaving first aid skills to tens of thousands of students in remote and disadvantaged areas across the state each year.
A Fremantle business is selling locally designed boardshorts to help expand St John WA's defibrillator network along regional coastlines after a man died of cardiac arrest on a Denmark beach.
Western Australia is home to an unseen army of 33,000 people, trained and ready to swing into action to potentially save a life – often before an ambulance is even dispatched.
Western Australian businesses and community groups are being called upon to help save lives by having on-site defibrillators registered for public access in a cardiac emergency.
The staff and guests at Aloft Hotel in Perth are safer than most – and that's not just a throwaway line created by a public relations department to promote a sense of wellbeing.
Gaming technology has been used by St John to create an interactive and immersive, online training course that puts vital first aid skills in the hands of all Western Australians.
