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Lifesavers at Work

Every day, from offices and warehouses to classrooms and building sites, ordinary working people across the country do something extraordinary: they save lives.

Our inaugural Lifesavers at Work Awards celebrate the people and organisations making a difference through first aid training, recognising those whose skills and actions have helped save lives. Their stories show the difference it can make when someone nearby knows what to do.

“Every one of the winners was an ordinary person who refused to give up on someone whose life was slipping away. These people are alive today because someone nearby knew what to do, and that should be true for everyone in this country.”

Shona Dunn, CEO, St John Ambulance

Workplace Hero

This award celebrates an individual who used their first aid skills to save a life at work, keeps those skills up to date and helps their workplace stay prepared. 

Winner

Adrian Cummins, Vehicle Data Manager, Holman UK, Wiltshire

Ade put his workplace first aid training into action when Paul McGettigan suffered a cardiac arrest outside their offices in June 2026, delivering CPR and helping save his life until paramedics arrived.

Beyond the Workplace Hero

This award recognises those who used first aid skills learned through their workplace to save a life outside of work.

Co-winners

Stacey Charman, Chellie Messenger and Claire Agnew, Windlesham House School, West Sussex

These winners used their first aid skills to save cyclist Kip Knowles after he suffered a cardiac arrest on the South Downs, delivering CPR and using a defibrillator until he began breathing again. Nominated by Kip’s wife, Lucy, the three colleagues’ quick thinking and teamwork helped save his life.

Leaders in Workplace First Aid

This award recognises a company that has put new policies and training in place, so its workforce are as prepared as possible for an emergency.

Winner

TotalEnergies Marketing Services Limited

Following a colleague’s cardiac arrest at work, TotalEnergies Marketing UK expanded first aid training across its three UK sites. Working with St John Ambulance, it has trained more than 30 additional employees in CPR and defibrillator use, alongside regular briefings and emergency simulations to help staff respond confidently in an emergency.

Leaders in Workplace Health & Wellbeing

This award recognises a company that has taken steps to improve workplace health and wellbeing, putting policies and initiatives in place to support its people's physical and mental health.

Winner

Manchester Metropolitan University

The university has trained nearly 3,000 students in physical and mental health first aid and suicide prevention.

Highly Commended

BAM UK & Ireland

Construction and infrastructure company BAM UK promotes physical and mental wellbeing through workplace first aid training, defibrillators and mental health support for employees and subcontractors. 

The St John Hero

A special award for St John Ambulance trainers who have gone above and beyond in their teaching or by using their skills outside the workplace. There are two St John Heroes this year!

Co-winner

Clive Butcher

Clive’s first aid training helped a learner respond to a life-threatening emergency just two days after attending his course on catastrophic bleeding and tourniquet use. After sharing his experience of saving a friend’s life in Afghanistan, the learner remembered the importance of tourniquets when their stepfather suffered a severe bleed following an injury to his knee surgery wound. They were able to act quickly and confidently, believing the skills learned during Clive’s training helped save their stepfather’s life.

Co-winner

Sarah Blood

One of our amazing Commercial trainers, Sarah, went from teaching people how to save a life to doing exactly that. When a man suffered a cardiac arrest, Sarah responded without hesitation, delivering CPR and using an AED until paramedics arrived. He survived and is recovering - and, thanks to Sarah’s actions, he has a future. 

Thank you to all the nominators, the winners, their employees and their families. All nominations brought these important stories to light, and they show what a difference trained people make.

Workplace First Aid Training

The skills that save lives come from the right training. By investing in your team and in first aid, you'll be making the first step in building confidence across your organisation and helping ensure they're prepared to respond in an emergency.
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Over the past 5 years, St John Ambulance have proudly trained over 1.2 million individuals through our workplace training programmes in First Aid, Health & Safety and Mental Health First Aid. Our workplace first aid courses help employers meet their legal responsibilities and prepare staff to respond effectively, teaching practical first aid skills from CPR and defibrillator use to responding to common workplace emergencies. We also offer mental health first aid, so your staff can start supportive conversations, guide individuals towards professional help, and respond effectively to mental health crises.

All profits from workplace first aid course sales are reinvested in the charity's work, helping to fund the training and equipment for our volunteers, and training the next generation through our young responders programme, helping keep our communities safe.

Every staff member you train takes those skills home to their family, onto the high street and into their community and strengthens our goal of putting the power of first aid in everybody’s hands.

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