Safety code will help ambulances find non-postal locations

The National Ambulance Services (NAS) can now pinpoint the scene of an emergency using a location code that is not based on a building or address.

The NAS has today announced that it is using a Public Safety Location Code (Loc8) created by a Cork-based company that can identify and dispatch emergency crews to non-postal locations on a map.

Unlike an Eircode, an eight-digit Loc8 code can identify any location on a map, regardless of whether it is at a postal address.