First Aid in the Workplace

In line with the Health and Safety (First Aid) regulations 1981, an employer has a responsibility to ensure that first aid provision in the workplace is sufficient. This includes:

• Carrying out an assessment to decided how many First Aiders are needed and where they should be located
  
• Providing training and re-qualifying training for those First Aiders
  
• Providing sufficient first aid kits and equipment for the workplace
  
• Ensuring that all staff are aware of how and where to get first aid treatment

The selection of a First Aider depends upon a number of factors. The person best suited to be a First Aider will volunteer, and will have:

• Good reliability, disposition and communication skills
• An aptitude and ability to absorb new skills and knowledge
• An ability to cope with stressful and physically demanding emergency procedures
• Normal duties in the workplace that can be left, to respond immediately and rapidly to an emergency

Guide to cover

Lower risk category:
Places of work eg shops, offices, libraries with 50 to 100 employees - at least one First Aider is required with one additional First Aider for every additional 100 employed.

Medium risk category:
For example, light engineering, assembly work, food processing, warehousing with 20 to 100 employees, at least one First Aider for every 50 employed (or part thereof). One additional First Aider for every additional 100 employed.

Higher risk category:
For example, construction, slaughter houses, chemical manufacture, dangerous machinery or sharp instruments with 5 to 50
> at least one First Aider One additional First Aider for every additional 50 employed.

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