Serving communities. Saving lives.
Guard Your Heart works with any organization — a department, union, employer, or community group — that wants to protect the people it serves. Here's who we work with.
Cardiac risk is not random. Certain professions, lifestyles, and life stages carry significantly elevated risk. These are the communities Guard Your Heart prioritizes first.
Firefighters, paramedics, EMTs, and police officers face 2–3× the cardiac risk of the general population. Cardiac arrest is the #1 cause of firefighter line-of-duty death for 30+ consecutive years. Most of those events happen off duty — at home.
Linemen, plant operators, field technicians, and energy workers spend decades in physically demanding roles with occupational stress that compounds cardiac risk over a career.
General contractors, specialty trades, heavy civil workers. Physical exertion over decades creates 2–4× elevated cardiac risk — especially in the years approaching and following retirement.
Production line workers, fabricators, plant operators. Shift work, physical demands, and occupational stress combine to create significantly elevated long-term cardiac risk.
Plumbers, electricians, HVAC technicians, pipefitters, ironworkers. These professions often carry union benefit structures that can fund AED programs — and members who have earned the protection.
Family history of cardiac events, high-stress lifestyle, post-retirement risk window, or simply the awareness that 73% of cardiac arrests happen at home. No special designation required to deserve protection.
Guard Your Heart works with institutions that care for at-risk people. They fund the program. Their people get protected.
Department safety budgets, union welfare funds, and workers' comp reserve accounts can all fund AED deployment for active and retired members.
IAFF locals, IBEW chapters, building trades unions — welfare fund trustees can authorize AED deployment as a member benefit with a single board vote.
HR benefits budgets, safety programs, and retirement gift programs can fund AEDs for retiring and active employees. Less than the cost of a retirement watch. More meaningful than anything else.
Companies, foundations, and individuals can sponsor AEDs for at-risk community members through our Honor Sponsorship Program — naming each device in memory or honor of someone they love.
Whether you represent a department, a union, an employer, or just a family — we'll find the right path to get an AED in your home.
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