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The revised workplace first aid standard, released September 17, 2026, adds guidance on CPR and AED preparedness, on staffing levels for trained responders, and on product-specific awareness training. Here is what changed, how to turn it into a site readiness checklist, and how to build the Q4 budget case.

Teenage lifeguards at a Virginia club used an AED twice on a 14-year-old who fully recovered. A second pool rescue in Florida the following day. Both turn on the same question, asked out loud mid-emergency: where is the AED?