CPR - should be mandatory in HS

BunsenBurner
Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:31:46 +0000

babyontheway, while the machines do all the work, they have to be located and taken out of the wall case to be used what they are intended for. And that is what training is mostly all about. At my work, everyone undergoes mandatory fire extinguisher training which does not involve actual use of fire extinguishers. People are shown their location, reminded of the PASS rule, etc. Every once in a while, we do splurge and pay the local fire department to let us extinguish a real fire that they set in a metal barrel in the empty parking lot. Everyone is also shown the locations of the safety eye wash stations and showers. People tend to roll their eyes (“gee, we know all of this!”), but as real life events show, in panic and disarray, even trained people may get the “deer in the headlights” syndrome. A safety shower would have saved the life of the young lady who perished after a chemical spill/fire at her UCLA lab.
[UCLA faces possible criminal charges for chemistry lab death](http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2010/January/29011003.asp)
So sad!