Emergency medical services: state-employed public safety personnel: optional first aid skills.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify whether performing advanced skills is mandatory after training.

First Aid Training for State Safety Workers

This law allows state-employed lifeguards, firefighters, and peace officers to get optional first aid training from the Emergency Medical Services Authority.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority to provide optional first aid and CPR skills training for state employees who are lifeguards, firefighters, or peace officers.
• The authority must develop quality assurance measures to ensure safe use of these skills.

Who It Names or Affects

• State-employed lifeguards
• State-employed firefighters
• State-employed peace officers

Terms To Know

Emergency Medical Services Authority

The agency that sets standards for first aid and CPR training.

Quality assurance measures

Steps taken to ensure the safe and effective use of first aid skills.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify what happens if a state worker does not want this optional training.
• The bill does not say how much it will cost or who pays for the training.
• It's unclear when exactly the new rules will start.

Official Summary Text

SB 796, as amended, Richardson.
Emergency medical services:
first aid training.
state-employed public safety personnel: optional first aid skills.
Existing law requires specified lifeguards, firefighters, and peace officers to be trained to administer first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Existing law requires the training to meet standards prescribed by the Emergency Medical Services Authority, and to be provided at no cost to the lifeguard or firefighter employee.
Existing regulations authorize those lifeguards, firefighters, and peace officers to perform specified optional first aid and CPR skills if the lifeguard, firefighter, or peace officer has been trained and tested to demonstrate competence and if authorized by the medical director of the local emergency medical services agency.
This bill would require the authority to act as the authorizing entity for
the
optional first aid and CPR
training
skills
for the lifeguards, firefighters, and peace officers described above that are employed by a state agency, and would require the authority to develop and implement quality assurance and improvement measures, as specified, to ensure the safe and effective use of those skills.

Current Bill Text

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