4-year-old dies after riding Disney attraction

[Wizard69]

What I want to know is:

Who's the idiot at Disney who made the height requirement so low? I would have made it at least 50-52". That way you are at least between 8-10 years old before you can ride it. 4 years old is too young for sunch an intense ride. Even 8-10 is kinda young but at least they are a lot older than 4 and can maybe withstand the G forces a little better.

[SRT_GB]

Nope, attraction hosts are not trained in CPR.

It wouldn't be fair to train only ROs in CPR because an emergency situation requiring CPR could happen anywhere, on a ride or in a restaurant, as a result or an accident or of natural causes.

I thought we might get trained on the automatic defibrillators, but instead we were told that only other guests or trained CMs could use them. Again, no offer of training -- just the warning that dicipline up to and including termination could result from an untrained CM using them.

I remember when they first implemented the AEDs out here they had open sign-ups for first aid/CPR/AED training. But I haven't heard of this being offered since. Another thing about the AEDs: We are allowed, but not required, to bring them to the scene of an emergency where they may be needed. We can't be held accountable for not bringing one to an emergency scene, as this is not part of our job.

[CujoSR]

Preforming CPR is entirely vollentary (I can never spell that damn word). No Cm can be blamed for not wanting or not knowing how to preform CPR. If someone wanted to and was told by management not to, then there is a problem.

[dannydp]

In the park where I worked summers running rides I'd been told not to perform any medical assistance. I was a trained and liscensed, but not insured, EMT. Unfortunatly in Mass if you see something happening and you are trained to fix it you are required to help them, you are also not covered under the good semeratin <sic> laws since you are a trained professional. It was a nice catch 22. The only time I actually did get involved in something was when a guest was dieing of heat stroke I informed the boss what the proper things were to do (bring them to cool/shaded area, give them cool drinks, preferably gatorade or the like, loosen/remove clothing) unfortunatly he actually died of it on route to the hospital.