Adoption Date: 1/20/2004
5000 - NON-INSTRUCTIONAL/BUSINESS OPERATIONS
NON-INSTRUCTIONAL OPERATIONS
5685 CARDIAC AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS (AEDs) IN PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITIES
The
School District shall provide and maintain on-site in each
instructional school facility functional cardiac automated external
defibrillator (AED) equipment as defined in Public Health Law Section
3000-b for use during emergencies. Each such facility shall have
sufficient automated external defibrillator equipment available to
ensure ready and appropriate access for use during emergencies in
quantities and types as deemed by the Commissioner of Education, in
consultation with the Commissioner of Health. Determination of the
quantity and placement of AEDs must be made with consideration of at
least the factors enumerated in Commissioner's Regulations. An
instructional school facility means a building or other facility
maintained by the School District where instruction is provided to
students pursuant to its curriculum.
Whenever an instructional
School District facility is used for a school-sponsored or
school-approved curricular or extracurricular event or activity and
whenever a school-sponsored athletic contest is held at any location,
the public school officials and administrators responsible for such
school facility or athletic contest shall ensure that AED equipment is
provided on-site and that there is present during such event, activity
or contest at least one staff person who is trained in accordance with
Public Health Law in the operation and use of an AED. School-sponsored
or school-approved curricular or extracurricular events or activities
means events or activities of the School District that are,
respectively, associated with its instructional curriculum or otherwise
offered to its students. A school-sponsored athletic contest means an
extraclass intramural athletic activity of instruction, practice and
competition for students in grades 4 through 12 consistent with
Commissioner's Regulations Section 135.4.
Where a school-sponsored
competitive athletic event is held at a site other than a School
District facility, School District officials shall assure that AED
equipment is provided on-site by the sponsoring or host district and
that at least one staff person who is trained, in accordance with Public
Health Law, in the operation and use of the AED is present during such
athletic event. A school-sponsored competitive athletic event means an
extraclass interscholastic athletic activity of instruction, practice
and competition for students in grades 7 through 12 consistent with
Commissioner's Regulations Section 135.4.
School District
facilities and District staff responsible for carrying out the duties
enumerated in Education Law Section 917 are deemed a "public access
defibrillation provider" as defined pursuant to Public Health Law
Section 3000-b and subject to the Public Health Law requirements and
limitations.
Therefore, it is the policy of our School District to
provide proper training requirements for District AED users, to ensure
the immediate calling of 911 and/or the community equivalent ambulance
dispatch entity whenever the AED is used, to ensure ready identification
of the location of the AED units as enumerated in the District's Public
Access Defibrillation Collaborative Agreement.
The District
will provide for regular maintenance and checkout procedures of the AED
unit(s) which meet or exceed manufacturer's recommendations. Appropriate
documentation will be maintained in accordance with law and/or
regulation. Further, the District will participate in the required
Quality Improvement Program as determined by the Regional Emergency
Medical Services Council.
Pursuant to Public Health Law Sections
3000-a and 3000-b, the School District (as a public access
defibrillation provider), or any employee or other agent of the School
District who, in accordance with the provisions of law, voluntarily and
without expectation of monetary compensation renders emergency medical
or first aid treatment using an AED to a person who is unconscious, ill
or injured, shall not be liable for damages for injury or death unless
caused by gross negligence.
Policy References:
Education Law Section 917
Public Health Law Sections 3000-a and 3000-b<br.
8 New York Code of Rules and Regulations
(NYCRR) Sections 135.4 and 136.4