Building staff trained in CPR and defribillator

The standards & regulations, I have no idea, but if you or a loved one ever needs help, you'll be glad that they know what they're doing rather than just standing there looking panicked & helpless. It's held that these procedures, properly used, do indeed save lives. I wonder we don't all learn it in school.

I don't think there is any mandatory training. One of our doorman had a heart attack last summer and I believe all that was done was calling 911. Unfortunately it was too late, and I suspect would have been even if there had been a defibrillator and or a trained person available. (There are doctors living in the building I don't know if anyone tried to reach them.) Nevertheless I think its a good idea for building staff to be trained in life saving techniques and would support such a program for our building. True our staff is relatively small but if the cost were say $5K, it would not be much per unit and if it saves one life....its more than worth it.

It is a great idea; the more people skilled in these things the better.

In terms of requirements my understanding is that it's limited to defibrillators being required in some commercial and institutional settings but not in residential buildings -- and even then the requirement is for the equipment and its maintenance, not staff training. (AED training is basically familiarization; you could pick one up without training and use it effectively - it tells you everything once you turn it on. CPR, however, covers more scenarios and requires real training.)

Questions to work out in a non-mandated setting (e.g. residential building) might include:
- is this considered a job duty? (e.g. discipline for failing to respond or for performing the rescue attempt improperly; possible loss of indemnification under the good samaritan laws)
- will there be a mechanism for summoning staff to an incident? (you still want people calling 911 rather than just the doorman) or is it just for incidents they happen to encounter?

Really? You want your building staff to assume the responsibility and liability of saving lives? Are you going to compensate them for that duty? Are you going to pay for their legal defense should something go wrong? Were we not such a litigious society, perhaps. But we are a bunch of bloodthirsty wolverines. If I were a building staff worker I'd refuse the training. I wonder what their union's POV is on this matter.