A rising number of businesses are giving training to their staff on how to help in the aftermath of a terror attack. This comes after concerns about the amount of time it could take for emergency services to reach victims.
This follows up from the evidence at the London Bridge inquest about the delays from ambulance service getting to the injuries after the fears of a second attack.
London Ambulance Service (LAS) senior managers will face questions at the inquest over whether their current major incident response plans are right for purpose.
The inquest heard how paramedics did not reach the scene of most of the deaths at the London Bridge for three hours after the attacks had begun – even when the killer was killed in the first 10 minutes. Two police officers who had been stabbed had to be taken to hospital in police cars soon after the attack.
A training facility in Berkshire has staff from a data management company who have just completed a course on how they should react if they are caught up in a terror attack or any major event. The course is aimed at teaching people the basics on how they should respond in an attack and how to do potentially life saving medical aid to anyone who has been injured.
Following recent terror attacks security firm Pangolin, who run the course, have seen a demand for their classes.
Michael Heron, CEO of Pangolin Group, said:“I think most paramedics would want to get in there and most police do want to get in there,”
He added: “So on an individual level, nobody does not want to help, that’s why they joined and I think that people would accept that level of risk, provided people are properly trained, properly equipped.
“Firefighters go into burning buildings to save people and some of them pay the ultimate price, but that is what they joined for.
“So I think at an individual level, people would accept the risk but at a corporate level, as in a managerial level, I think it’s different.”
On June 3rd it was the second anniversary of the London Bridge terror attack where eight people were killed and 48 seriously injured. Three men drove into pedestrians before stabbing people in Borough Market, it was said that the attackers stalked people like “predators” and has 12 inch kitchen knives which they bought in Lidl supermarket weeks prior to the attack. .
