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Employment (First Aid) Regulations

Commencement: 17 October 1983

EMPLOYMENT (FIRST AID) REGULATIONS

Order 44 of 1983

To prescribe the first aid facilities that an employer is required to provide at the place of work.

1. The first aid facilities that an employer is required to provide at the place of work shall consist of not less than the following at all times −

An adequate supply of suitable bandages 1 tin of lint

1 packet of gauze

An adequate supply of cotton wool and/or swabs

Elastoplast (or similar)

1 bottle of iodine

1 bottle of S. V. M.

1 bottle of antiseptic fluid

1 packet of Aspirin (or similar)

1 pair of scissors Safety pins

2 "kidney" bowls

2. Where the number of employees (including eligible families) exceeds twenty, the quantity of such first aid items shall be doubled, and for each additional person thereafter the quantity of such items shall be increased proportionately.

3. First aid items shall be kept under adequate supervision and be readily available for use.

4. Nothing in these Regulations shall prevent the employer from providing such other facilities that he may consider necessary in the circumstances of the place of work.