Impact Safety with Shane Clark

22/03/2025

Awesome day Prestwold Hall sharing our story for Your Local Air Ambulance WNDLR of how their life saving charity gave me the best possible chance of survival.

04/03/2025

Done a bit of joinery last week, hard work but got there in the end.

11/01/2025

Following from our first talk at the East Midlands Major trauma conference in November 2023, we were invited to share our story for the hs2 development in early 2024. Then in July, we were asked to share my story at the hs2 supervisors forum - a meeting of the managers and supervisors from each sublot along the development. A big part of us sharing our story, is sharing how it impacted us as a family. Not just my personal story of survival, but the ripples and impact it had for us all. From our children, at different life stages and their personal growth, to our relationships and family dynamics as we progressed, and to our family unit as a whole.

Sometimes it's easier to see and accept how well I've recovered rather than to think about the continued struggles that we face. Even now, more than 5 years later, we still face struggles as a family that we wouldn't wish on anyone. We share these difficulties, as raw as the day it happened, during our talks.

Our mission... if we can prevent one family going through what we have had to, then my story is worth sharing.

21/12/2024

I have many mentions and will share more of my story and my goals looking forward in due course, but I have to give a special mention to our amazing Your Local Air Ambulance WNDLR who we did some fundraising for with our primary school, back in June for my 5 year surviversary 💛 With a visit from their mascot, Blade, and one of the crit care cars too.

These guys played a huge role in my recovery, with their rapid response car attending me on site at the time of my accident. They are solely funded by donations and with each mission costing around £2,300, every little helps! They are equipped to do more at the scene of a mission than land paramedics (who I am also incredibly thankful for) - I was sedated on scene to prevent further injuries to my brain, as I put up quite a fight!

https://theairambulanceservice.org.uk/stories/shanes-story/

21/12/2024

Where it all began! Well, not quite but explanation to follow...

In November 2023, we were invited to speak at the Major trauma conference at Pride Park to share our experiences of being a patient and relative of our wonderful major trauma unit, based in QMC following a catastrophic accident at work in June 2019. The accident resulted in many injuries including fractures to my spine in several places, a broken wrist, fractured ribs along with many other orthopaedic injuries, but the worst, by far, was my fractured skull and severe traumatic brain injury. My injuries were so significant that I wasn't expected to survive. After a very long and gruelling five months in intensive care, neuro wards, East Midlands Major Trauma Centre and finally neuro rehab within City hospital at Linden Lodge Neurorehabilitation Unit, I came home to my family.

Since then, we have been sharing our story in the hopes of preventing other families having to go through what we did. You will never see a change like this coming until you're living it.

More to come soon!

14/05/2024

Wow

04/05/2022

Here's my story on air ambulance site.

This is Shane's Story. Our Patients. Their Stories. The Air Ambulance & Children's Air Ambulance patient stories.

27/02/2022

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The unfortunate truth of owning and running a business.

Running a business is really hard.

What they don’t tell you is that it can cause severe stress and anxiety, and drains you mentally to the point of depression in even the most laid back people.

People will talk about you, compare you to others, use you, they will view you as a service and not a person anymore.

Friends and family will expect discounts and people will value you and your hard work less than a big chain store.

You have to worry about if you forget to email/message someone back, are they going to think it was on purpose? Did you disappoint them? Will they hold that against you? When in reality you just can’t get to everyone’s messages and emails.

Starting up and running a successful business puts incredible strain on personal lives and relationships, many of which fail because there is just often no work life balance. You need to be the director, the worker, the admin, the marketing team, the accountant, the cleaner..... All whilst being a parent, a husband or a wife, family support, friend... it’s one of the hardest things you will try and balance

There’s a reason you don’t see many people succeed in businesses after 5 years. If they are successful they are overwhelmed. It takes a toll. It’s freaking exhausting. Especially the past couple of years when so much has been out of our control.

Here’s a small reminder that we are just normal people trying to earn a living with hectic lives. Be kind, be patient, support businesses…….and hopefully more of us will stick around!

I copied this from another business owner that I support and they support us. ❤