Despite OSHAs requirements that employees be trained in First Aid and CPR if the company is more than four minutes away from emergency medical care - many informally or perhaps even formally tell their employees to do nothing more than call 911.

Is the intention of OSHAs First Aid Standard being lost here?

How do you feel about a company that tells its employees “hands off?”

Good Samaritan Laws have been enacted in all 50 states so that people will help in times of crisis without fear of being found at fault if things do not turn out as hoped. Despite the fact that there have been no successful judgments against a good samaritan who attempted to help at the scene of an accident or emergency, many people and companies/corporate executives remain leary of helping, fearing that they somehow “take on responsibility” by attempting to help.

Despite the lack of successful judgments against people who try to help, the Good Samaritan law is perceived as fluffy. How come?