Volunteer Community Responder Program

A cardiac arrest can happen to anyone, anywhere and at anytime. CPR or an AED improves the chances of survival.

By becoming a volunteer community responder, you could save someone's life just by being nearby. You don't need to know CPR or how to use an AED.

If you're a Nova Scotia resident and at least 18 years of age fill out the registration form and upload a photo of your government-issued identification. Once approved, download the GoodSAM Responder app.

The GoodSAM Responder app is how you'll be notified of a cardiac arrest happening near you. If you can respond, you'll receive directions and a list of AEDs near the scene.

Responding to a cardiac arrest can cause physical injury or psychological trauma. For more information about mental health and well-being resources and support in Nova Scotia visit https://novascotia.ca/mental-health-and-wellbeing.

Before completing the Responder Registration Form you must watch the watch the "Learn CPR" and "Learn AED" videos.

After submitting this form we will send you a verification email to activate your account. If you can't find this email, please check your spam folder. If you need another activation email, please click here - Lost the verification email.

First Name: *

Last Name: *

Email: *

  

This email address already exists on the platform, if you proceed, this would overwrite your previous registration.

Mobile Number: *

  

Password: *

Your password needs to have at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter and one number.

This email address already exists on the platform, if this is you, please enter your current password.

Repeat Password: *

Occupation: *

Select Ambulance Care Assistant Ambulance Technician Coastguard Community First Responder Dentist Doctor Firefighter First Aider (e.g. Red Cross/St John) Flight Crew Member (first aid trained) Lifeboat Crew Lifeguard Medical Student (first aid qualified) Mountain rescue Nurse Nursing Student (first aid qualified) Occupational Therapist Operating Department Practitioner Other Health Student (first aid qualified) Paramedic Physiotherapist Policeman/woman Other

Upload formal photo ID (eg Drivers licence, government ID, government workplace ID)

(NO PDFs, Images only)

Terms and Conditions :

To be registered into the EHS AED (Automated External Defibrillator) Registry, the guardian or inspector, and if applicable the responder(s), must agree to the Terms and Conditions and Release of Liability that follow. Please read the Terms and Conditions and Release of Liability carefully as it limits the liability of others to you and limits your ability to recover against others in respect of your participation in the Registry. By signing the Terms and Conditions and Release of Liability, you agree to the terms stated therein. Terms and Conditions and Release of Liability (In order to register into the EHS AED Registry, be an inspector and or responder you must be a resident of the province of Nova Scotia and minimum 18 years of age.) Thank you for your interest and consideration in becoming part of the EHS AED Registry Program. Please carefully read this Agreement. By signing your name at the bottom of this document, you acknowledge that you have read this Agreement and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, do not use, enroll or continue to use the Registry. GoodSAM medical ("GoodSAM"), is a crowdsourcing, community-based, application that allows people to map their AEDs in a fixed location and allows for layperson citizens to register as volunteer responders (with approval from EMC once registration complete) to assist sudden cardiac arrest patients. EMC Emergency Medical Care Inc. ("EMC") is the Emergency Health Services ("EHS") operator in the province of Nova Scotia and is responsible for the program management oversight of the Registry under the program brand of EHS AED Registry in the province of Nova Scotia. The Registry is an online and app-based information system intended to help link automated external defibrillators ("AEDs"), AED users and sudden cardiac arrest victims, and to help AED owners manage and track data and information concerning their AEDs. Through its GoodSam™ product, GoodSam endeavors to provide EHS Medical Communication Centre ('MCC') access to information regarding the location of AEDs stored in the Registry. They also endeavor to provide cardiac arrest locations to verified AED responders who have signed up with the system. Through the Registry, GoodSam endeavors to notify designated AED owner or their designate(s) via email of the expiration date of batteries and electrodes based on the information submitted by the AED owner or designate. Whether or not an owner or designate acts on the notifications received is entirely within the discretion of the owner or designate. 1. Enrollment You may enroll as an individual AED owner or designate or a volunteer responder (with verification from EMC). If you are enrolling on behalf of an entity, you shall represent that you are authorized to accept these terms on behalf of the entity. Further, if you enroll as an AED owner and/or designate, you represent that you own or are an authorized agent of the owner of the AED(s) you register or have the right to provide information regarding the AEDs that you register ("Registered AEDs"). You confirm that you are eighteen (19) years of age or older and that you will submit all required enrollment information, and that all such information is to the best of your knowledge accurate and complete. 2. Permitted Use Information will be entered via the online AED registration form or responder registration form via the www.savelivesns.ca website. Information sent via paper or fillable PDF forms will be entered into the registry via the EHS AED Registry Program Coordinator. Paper and/or PDF fillable forms is available for an AED owner and/or registration only. Responders must self-register on the GoodSAM platform themselves. The EHS AED Registry Program Coordinator will be the main point of contact and have access to the EHS AED Registry. If you are an AED owner and/or designate with a valid account and password, then, provided you comply with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, you are authorized to access and use the web pages assigned to your AED owner or designates account to receive AED maintenance messages and record the results of AED inspections and maintenance tasks. You grant to each EMC, EHS, and GoodSam the right to use the information you have provided or will provide under this Agreement for the purposes of maintaining the information within the GoodSam system, the Registry and, if permission to include your registered AED(s) in the publicly accessible interactive map or phone application (the "Interactive Map") is given, to use the location name, street address, city, province, postal code and/or location description you have provided for the purposes of the Interactive Map or app. 3. Privacy GoodSam is a United Kingdom corporation that has agreed to hold all information on Canadian AWS (Amazon Web Services) servers. You, the AED owner and/or designate and/or responder, agree that your personal information is being provided and stored within the GoodSam platform on Canadian AWS servers in Canada and that such information will be used for the purpose of linking AEDs, responders, and cardiac arrest patients through the GoodSam responder application or GoodSam online. No person and/or organization will have access to your information from another country and the information is encrypted at all times within the GoodSAM application located within Canada. 4. Your Materials You agree that any data and information, including but not limited to, enrollment information (e.g., the location of the Registered AEDs and names, telephone numbers, and emails of your AED owner and/or designates and responders) will be used only as outlined within these agreed upon Terms and Conditions. You are granting the GoodSam Application, EMC and the EHS Medical Communication Centre ("MCC") the right to use your AED location data in conjunction with GoodSam's responder app in the province of Nova Scotia. All data related to the AED within a radius of a suspected cardiac event called into 9-1-1 will be transferred to the EHS MCC. 5. Terms and Termination The term of this Agreement will commence upon your completion of the enrollment process as indicated by your acceptance of this Agreement and will continue until terminated. 6. Responders GoodSam's Responder platform can auto-notify individuals who are willing to respond to a nearby cardiac arrest location to provide help, either by providing hands-only CPR and/or picking up a nearby AED and bringing it to the location. This is a voluntary process. The method of contact choices are up to the responders and can include the option not to be contacted at all. There is always the choice of accepting or rejecting a response. By signing this Agreement, you are confirming that each responder is a volunteer, no responder is paid to respond to an alert, and that each responder has been properly trained in the use of your AED and has been instructed, and they have agreed, to respond in a way that will not cause harm to themselves or others. Furthermore, the undersigned agrees to hold EMC harmless for any action taken by these responders should a responder not take the necessary precautions when responding to an alert. Auto-notifications may also contain personal addresses which you agree to keep confidential as well as any other information that you gather during a potential rescue scenario. By agreeing to these terms and conditions, responders understand the inherent risk of physical or psychological injury when responding to a cardiac arrest situation and are to respond only when prepared to do so. The responder understands that no scene or patient can be predicted. 7. Limitations of Liability Other than in respect of a breach of the confidentiality obligation in the second paragraph of section 6 (Responders), THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF OR BETWEEN (i) EMC AND EHS, AND EACH OF THEIR AFFILIATES, ON THE ONE HAND, AND (ii) YOU, THE INSPECTOR AND/OR RESPONDERS IDENTIFIED HEREIN, ON THE OTHER HAND, FOR ANY REASON AND UPON ANY CAUSE OF ACTION WILL BE LIMITED TO ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100). THIS LIMITATION APPLIES TO ALL CAUSES OF ACTION IN THE AGGREGATE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, BREACH OF CONTRACT, BREACH OF WARRANTY, NEGLIGENCE, PRODUCT LIABILITY, STRICT LIABILITY, MISREPRESENTATION, AND OTHER TORTS. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THE REGISTRY OR WITH ANY APPLICABLE TERM OR CONDITION GOVERNING ITS USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO TERMINATE THIS AGREEMENT. 8. Volunteer Protection If the "Organization" designated in the "Site" information box on Page 1 hereof is a "non-profit organization" as that term is defined in the Volunteer Protection Act, then the limitations on liability and entitlement to legal costs provisions of that Act may apply to you. Please refer to the Act for further details. 9. Compliance with Laws In the performance of this Agreement, you will comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules, orders and other requirements, now or hereafter in effect, of any governmental authority having jurisdiction, including, without limitation, Good Samaritan laws applicable to AED owners. 10. Governing Law This Agreement is governed by the laws of the province of Nova Scotia.

  I confirm that I am 18 years of age and that I have the skills and knowledge to perform CPR and use an AED or have watched the Learn CPR and Learn AED videos.

  I acknowledge that volunteering and participating in GoodSAM events can cause physical injury or psychological trauma; and understand that it is my personal responsibility to monitor my mental health and seek appropriate assistance as required.

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