Lifesaving qualifications.

(1) Any person who is charged with the responsibility to perform or act as a whitewater river guide for a commercial whitewater company that takes passengers for hire onto the waters of the state is required to have a valid first-aid card from a course that is approved by the Washington department of labor and industries or the department of health, qualifying that person to perform first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

(2) The outline of the first-aid course will include cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instruction consistent with the most current guidelines of the most recent supplement to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The course outline will include instruction criteria consistent with current Washington state medical protocols.