S.L. 424.13 Art. 4Employer to provide equipment and facilities.

(1) An employer shall ensure that each of his workers and any other person present at the workplace shall have rapid access to first aid whenever needed.

(2) An employer shall provide, or ensure that there are provided, such equipment and facilities as are adequate and appropriate in the circumstances for enabling first aid to be rendered to whosoever becomes injured or ill inside the workplace. Such facilities shall include a readily accessible and adequately maintained first aid box. Where more than fifty persons are employed, there shall be an additional box in respect of every fifty persons beyond the first fifty.

(3) First aid boxes shall be made of suitable material and designed to protect the contents, as far as possible, from damp and dust. First aid boxes shall be clearly identified as such by means of a white cross on a green background.

(4) The contents of first aid boxes shall include the following items:

(a) a minimum of ten individually wrapped sterile adhesive dressings in various sizes:

(b) sterile eye pads with attachment;

(c) a minimum of three triangular bandages;

(d) a minimum of six safety pins;

(e) a minimum of three sterile unmedicated dressings in various sizes;

(f) a suitable supply of sterile eye wash;

(g) a minimum of three pairs of surgical gloves;

(h) a minimum of three roller bandages of different sizes;

(i) one personal protection shield for use during artificial respiration;

(j) three individually wrapped gauze pads.