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?”

Anthony and I attended Super CPR Saturday this weekend. In a very non-scientific poll of the people who attended, the majority of attendees were there getting trained in CPR due to a work requirement. I think in the past the only times I’ve gotten trained were for work, as well. What is it about us that makes us not want to be prepared?

We hear about the need to “be prepared” all the time in ads, on tv, in the news…yet how many people out there in California actually have an earthquake preparedness kit? How many people planned for the never-occurring Y2K scare? How many people after Hurricane Katrina now have supplies to take them through another natural disaster?

I would be interested to hear from people why you do or do not take the steps to plan for emergency. Is there anyone out there who is totally prepared, well-stocked, and ready for an emergency to happen? How about the everyone else? Any comments / thoughts / philosophies on why or why you are not prepared?

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?