The pair rushed to the rescue when one of their colleagues collapsed and stopped breathing as he was preparing to start work on a site in Birmingham.
Marc Norton, 32, and Jordan Pickering, 22, both helped keep the man alive, thanks to the CPR skills they learnt at a first aid training day with Leicestershire-based firm OMS.
Norton contacted the emergency services while Pickering took over from the contract manager to administer CPR until the paramedics arrived at the Central Electrical Services site.
Richard Tudge, Director at Central Electrical Services, said: “First aid training should be an essential part of company training and the results from this near-fatal incident should serve as encouragement for all companies to introduce such training for their employees.”
Clive Ormerod, Managing Director of OMS, said: “It’s fashionable to see health and safety as annoying bureaucracy but accidents at work can have devastating consequences, and it is times like these that people realise just how important first aid is.”
The electrician who collapsed will be released from hospital shortly after having serious surgery for stents.
Doctors said he would not have survived without his quick-thinking colleagues.