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January 24, 2009

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An instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service. First aid equipment is equipment which has bandages, cotton balls, medicines etc. First aid equipment has personnel and facilities are important resources in assisting...

An instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service. First aid equipment is equipment which has bandages, cotton balls, medicines etc. First aid equipment has personnel and facilities are important resources in assisting workplaces to manage workplace injuries and illnesses. What first aid facilities require:

First aid equipment are facilities which people are needed in the workplace to respond to illness or injury, including the risk of exposure to biological hazards, blood and bloody substances.

Be sure your family is fully prepared for households' first aid, home shop first aid, outdoor first aid, and travel first aid emergencies. Keep your household and keep a first aid kit everywhere there is likely to be an emergency around the house, in each car, in backpacks, and in your RV or boat. One of the most innovative, high-value lines of first aid kits and First Response kits in the industry, these first aid kits are all developed for real life first aid emergencies.

First aid equipments have the following things:

1. a pair of clean scissors
2. bandages and cotton balls
3. some medicines like aspirin for pain relief, and fever,
4. Antiseptics ointments and sterilize cloth.

First aid is the immediate and temporary aid for persons injured until the medical treatment can be provided.Itconsists of series of simple life saving medical techniques at a non-doctor or lay person can be trained to perform with minimum equipment. All the work sites should have a person with first aid or medical training readily available in case of emergency. The equipmentsuppliesincluding a variety of dressings and instruments, as well as an up-to-date first aid manual, should be stored where they can be reached quickly and easily in case of an accident.

First aid station:

It consists of sterilize bandages, injections, medicines such as aspirin for pain and fever. Some medicines should be there in the kit you should have some medicines which get relief for pain and fever. First-aid does not include treating minor illnesses and those acting as first-aids are not authorized to dispense drugs, including aspirin tablets. Therefore a first-aid kit should not contain any drugs. Training in first-aid, under the above Regulations is provided by the Society and the Saint John's Ambulance Brigade. The courses are approved by the HSE and cover an extensive range of first-aid procedures

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July 15, 2009
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Sisay @ 3:17 pm #

The equipment you have mentioned are few in number.Are this alone or other lists of equipment available? If available, please mention me? what material I should have to have in my first aid box? Wuold you mind if you tell me list of first aid material and their usages? I am currently entitled to under take first aid in our office. Our office hase arround 750 workers deployed in different working classes, such as printing press working class, garage working class, canteen workers and different working office.
Sincerly,

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