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

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on quality assurance measures beyond mentioning that they are required.

First Aid Training for State Public Safety Workers

This law allows state-employed lifeguards, firefighters, and peace officers to have optional first aid training if they want it, with the Emergency Medical Services Authority in charge of approving this training.

What This Bill Does

• Allows state-employed public safety workers like lifeguards, firefighters, and peace officers to have optional first aid skills training.
• Requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority to be in charge of giving permission for these extra skills.
• Needs the authority to make sure that any extra first aid skills are taught safely and correctly.

Who It Names or Affects

• State-employed lifeguards, firefighters, and peace officers who want to get more first aid training.

Terms To Know

Emergency Medical Services Authority

The group that sets rules for emergency medical care in California.

Quality Assurance

Checking if something is done well and safely.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify the cost or who pays for the training.
• Does not list specific first aid skills beyond CPR and basic first aid.
• The bill does not mention when exactly this law would start to be used.

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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