The document provides guidance on first aid requirements and recommendations for workplaces. It states that under the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981, employers must provide adequate and appropriate first aid equipment, facilities, and personnel. At a minimum, workplaces must have a suitably stocked first aid box and an appointed person to oversee first aid arrangements. Employers should assess the specific risks in their workplace to determine the appropriate first aid needs. The document also provides a suggested list of basic first aid supplies to include in a first aid kit.

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6. Advice from the HSE
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8. The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 require you to provide adequate
and appropriate equipment, facilities and personnel to enable first aid to be given to
9. your employees if they are injured or become ill at work.
10. What is adequate and appropriate will depend on the circumstances in your workplace
11. and you should assess what your first aid needs are.
12. The minimum first-aid provision on any work site is:
 A suitably stocked first-aid box;
13.  An appointed person to take charge of first-aid arrangements.
14. It is also important to remember that accidents can happen at any time. First-aid
15. provision needs to be available at all times people are at work.
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5. What should I put in the first-aid box?
6. There is no standard list of items to put in a first-aid box.
It depends on what you assess the needs are. However, as a guide, and where there is no special
7. risk in the workplace, a minimum stock of first-aid items would be:
8.  a leaflet giving general guidance on first aid eg HSE leaflet Basic advice on first aid at work
9.  20 individually wrapped sterile adhesive dressings (assorted sizes);
 two sterile eye pads;
10.  Four individually wrapped triangular bandages (preferably sterile);
11.  six safety pins;
 six medium sized (approximately 12 cm x 12 cm) individually wrapped sterile un-medicated
12. wound dressings;
13.  two large (approximately 18 cm x 18 cm) sterile individually wrapped un-medicated wound
14. dressings;
 One pair of disposable gloves.
15. You should not keep tablets or medicines in the first-aid box.
16. The above is a suggested contents list only; equivalent but different items will be considered
acceptable.
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2. ZONE CONTROL SYSTEM
FIRST AID
ZONES – COLOUR CODES RISK
Aspects to consider – as suggested by the HSE
Page Floor Plan Layout – EXAMPLE ONLY o You are required by law to make an assessment of significant risks in
Make a simple your workplace. What are the risks of injury and ill health identified in this risk
drawing of the assessment?
LEVEL i.e. UPPER LEVEL - Accommodation floor premises, drawn o Are there any specific risks, eg working with:
ZONE -2  hazardous substances;
roughly to scale,
which shows any  dangerous tools;
Reporting System
relevant structural  dangerous machinery;
features, such as  dangerous loads or animals?
o Are there parts of your establishment where different levels of risk can be
stairs staircases the
identified?
usage of o What is your record of accidents and cases of ill health?
particular areas, o What type are they and where did they happen?
for example o How many people are employed on site?
public areas, o Are there inexperienced workers on site, or employees with disabilities or
kitchen or special health problems?
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accommodation o Are the premises spread out, eg are there several buildings on the site or
floor. multi-floor buildings?
o Is there shift work or out-of-hours working?
Evaluate, remove
o Is your workplace remote from emergency medical services?
Fire Protective Emergency Signs or reduce, and
o Do you have employees who travel?
Equipment Escape And protect from risk
Routes Signage List as described What to do in an Emergency
items in each
section If an employee is involved in an accident, a near miss, a
dangerous occurrence or is otherwise personally injured, they
People Equipment Materials Identify the must immediately report the incident to their
Hazards Supervisor/Manager, even if it is of a minor nature.
Identify the Risk In event of an incident which is classified under the Reporting
And the people at of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences
Risk Regulations 1985 (RIDDOR), the incident must be reported
Safety Hints immediately to the local HSE by telephone. Following this, the
This guidebook gives you a template to draw a rough sketch of each Zone and an aid when legal documentation must be completed and posted within ten
transferring your information on to your master copy contained in your Zone Control File System. days if required
You must indicate on your drawing, doors, fire doors, emergency lighting, lighting, stairways,
stairwells, smoke detectors, Fire Protective Equipment, Emergency Escape Routes, Signs and (UK only)
Signage, Equipment and Materials which may ignite.
You must draw a before and after a fire-risk assessment sketch to demonstrate what precautions
you have taken, if any. We can help with you with the preparation of your Fire Risk Assessment Accident Log Book
and offer a full line drawing service if required.
For further guidance and advice go to www.firesafetyguides.communities.gov.uk and
download the information provided.
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