Witnesses say a fourth-grade boy choked on meatballs during lunch in a New York City school cafeteria this month and later died.
The New York Post reports that 9-year-old Jonathan Jewth fell to the ground during lunch Dec. 5 and was unconscious before help arrived. They say cafeteria workers at Public School 47 in the Bronx didn't know what to do and failed to help him.
Do your cafeteria personnel know what to do? Have you trained them on what to do? This death was most likely preventable. A nine-year old boy's life, whose life was in the care of the school, is gone.
Sheepdog thinking will prevent this from happening.
Take the time.
You'd think they'd have someone there who knew the minimal requirements of first aid for that environment. So simple that they didn't think to do it. If they had a safety professional, the many "what if's" could and should have been considered. Most of those safe guards for "what if's" don't cost anything more then what they are already spending, just allocating resources a little differently.
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