This is the first-aid kit required for most low risk workplaces less than 20 minutes surface travel to the hospital with 11 to 50 workers on shift.
This WorkSafeBC Occupational First Aid Level 1 Kit contains the supplies an Occupational First Aid Level 1 Attendant needs to provide first aid to:
- Shifts of 6-30 workers in a workplace with a low risk of injury and that is more than 20 minutes surface travel time away from a hospital
- Shifts of 31-50 workers in a workplace with a low risk of injury that is more than 20 minutes surface travel time away from a hospital (also need ETV equipment, and the first aid attendant needs Transportation Endorsement course)
- Shifts of 11-50 workers in a workplace with a low risk of injury that is less than 20 minutes surface travel time away from a hospital
- Shifts of 2-5 workers in a workplace with a moderate risk of injury that is more than 20 minutes surface travel time away from a hospital
- Shifts of 6-15 workers in a workplace with a moderate risk of injury that is more than 20 minutes surface travel time away from a hospital (also need ETV equipment, and the first aid attendant needs Transportation Endorsement course)
- Shifts of 6-25 workers in a workplace with a moderate risk of injury that is less than 20 minutes surface travel time away from a hospital
- Shifts of 2-5 workers in a workplace with a high risk of injury that is more than 20 minutes surface travel time away from a hospital
- Shifts of 6-10 workers in a workplace with a high risk of injury that is more than 20 minutes surface travel time away from a hospital (also need ETV equipment, and the first aid attendant needs Transportation Endorsement course)
- Shifts of 2-15 workers in a workplace with a high risk of injury that is less than 20 minutes surface travel time away from a hospital
For more information, please see Schedule 3-A Minimum Levels of First Aid and First Aid Kits: Recommended Minimum Contents on the WorkSafeBC website. If you are not sure of your workplace's hazard rating, please look up your industry Classification Unit here and scroll down to the Hazard rating assignment.
Whenever a WorkSafeBC Occupational First Aid Level 1 Kit is required, at least one employee with their WorkSafeBC Occupational First Aid Level 1 or Canadian Red Cross Emergency First-Aid certificate is required to be on shift.
WCB Level 1 First Aid Kit
Kit Contents:
- Blanket (1)
- 14 cm x 19 cm wound cleansing towelettes (24)
- Sterile adhesive dressings (50)
- 10 cm x 10 cm sterile gauze dressings (10)
- 10 cm x 16.5 cm sterile pressure dressings with crepe ties (4)
- 7.5 cm x 4.5 m crepe roller bandages (2)
- 7.5 cm conforming gauze bandages (2)
- 2.5 cm x 4.5 m adhesive tape (1)
- Cotton triangular bandages (2)
- Quick straps (a.k.a. fracture straps or zap straps) (2)
- Windlass style tourniquet (1)
- 14 cm stainless steel bandage scissors (1)
- 11.5 cm stainless steel silver forceps (1)
- Pocket mask with a one-way valve and oxygen inlet (1)
- Pairs of vinyl gloves (6)
- Waterproof waste bag (1)
- First aid records Face shield (2)
- Earloop masks (6)