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    The document discusses regularly reviewing first aid arrangements to ensure they remain adequate and effective. It recommends checking that people with first aid responsibilities understand their roles, reviewing first aid procedures if work practices change, conducting mock emergencies to test effectiveness, and evaluating real incidents requiring first aid. The review should assess whether first aid kits suit workplace hazards, the number and accessibility of kits, maintenance of kits, need for first aid facilities, skills of first aiders, worker awareness, and emergency access.

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    4.

    REVIEWING YOUR
    FIRST AID REQUIREMENTS

    You should regularly review your first aid arrangements in consultation with your workers to
    ensure they remain adequate and effective.

    „ Check that the people who have responsibilities under your first aid procedures are
    familiar with them.
    „ If the way work is performed is changed, or new work practices introduced, review first
    aid against a risk assessment to ensure the arrangements are still adequate.
    „ Organise a mock first aid emergency to check that first aid is effective. Check that kits
    and first aid rooms are accessible and suit the hazards that are unique to your workplace.
    „ If an incident has occurred that required first aid, evaluate the effectiveness of the first
    aid that was provided and make changes if necessary.
    „ If new information is obtained about a previously unidentified hazard, review the first aid
    measures you have put in place.
    The following questions can assist you to review first aid and assess whether improvement
    is needed:

    „ Do the first aid kits and modules suit the hazards at your workplace?

    „ Are more first aid kits required?

    „ Are first aid kits accessible to workers?

    „ Are first aid kits well maintained and identifiable to workers?

    „ Is a first aid room or health centre required?

    „ Are first aid facilities well maintained?

    „ Do first aiders have the skills and competencies required of them and are their
    skills up-to-date?

    „ Do workers know how to access first aiders?

    „ Are more first aiders needed?

    „ Do workers have access to first aiders at all times?

    „ Do workers and other people know what to in an emergency situation?

    „ Is there easy access for emergency services, such as parking for an ambulance?

    CODE OF PRACTICE | FIRST AID IN THE WORKPLACE 17


    APPENDIX A - FIRST AID AND
    THE RISK MANAGEMENT PROCESS

    Step 1 – Identify potential causes


    of workplace injury and illness
    „ Does the nature of the work being carried out pose a hazard to people’s health and safety?
    „ Have these hazards been identified in work that is being carried out?
    „ Has incident and injury data been reviewed?
    „ Has consultation with workers and their health and safety representatives occurred?
    „ Is specialist or external assistance required?

    Step 2 – Assess the risk of workplace injury and illness


    „ How often does a hazard have the potential to cause harm?
    „ What type of injuries would the hazards cause?
    „ How serious are the injuries?
    „ Does the number and composition of workers and other people affect how first aid should be provided?
    „ Could the size and location of the workplace affect how first aid is provided?

    Step 3 – What first aid is required?

    First aiders First aid kits & procedures First aid facilities

    „ How many first „ What kits/modules are needed and „ Is a first aid room
    aiders are needed? where should they be located? or health centre
    „ „
    required?
    What competencies Is other first aid equipment needed?
    „
    do they require?
    Who is responsible for maintaining
    „ What training do the kits?
    „
    they need?
    What procedures are needed
    for my workplace?

    Step 4
    Review first aid to ensure effectiveness

    18 CODE OF PRACTICE | FIRST AID IN THE WORKPLACE


    APPENDIX B - EXAMPLE OF A FIRST
    AID ASSESSMENT

    This assessment of first aid requirements is included as an example only. It does not reflect the consultative processes
    that must occur or detail the assessment of each identified hazard.

    ABC Company - Office and manufacturing operation

    The size and location of the workplace

    Number of floors 2

    Access between floors Lifts and stairs

    Nearest hospital 6 kilometres

    Nearest medical or occupational 2 kilometres


    health service

    Maximum time to medical service 15 minutes

    The number and composition of the workers and other persons at the workplace

    Number of workers 80 (15 office / 65 factory)

    Number of other persons 2 to 5 visitors per day

    Shifts 3

    Overtime worked Yes – regularly

    Remote or isolated workers None

    Injuries, illnesses and incidents

    Last 12 months’ claims data 5 x abrasions

    3 x falls

    Incidents not resulting in injury Incident where a trolley carrying disinfectants overturned

    Other Worker handling a solvent reported symptoms of eye irritation and


    dizziness

    CODE OF PRACTICE | FIRST AID IN THE WORKPLACE 19


    APPENDIX B - EXAMPLE OF A FIRST AID ASSESSMENT

    Nature of the work being carried out and the nature of the hazards at the workplace

    Hazards How the hazard could Likelihood of occurrence and degree


    cause harm of harm

    „ Hazardous chemicals: „ Respiratory „ Possible risk of daily exposure to


    „ Solvents
    illnesses, cancers hazardous chemicals for 2 cleaners.
    and dermatitis Good ventilation is provided. Protective
    „ Disinfectants equipment such as gloves and aprons
    are used by workers.

    „ Noise „ Hearing damage „ Possible risk of daily exposure to noise


    „ „
    for 65 factory workers. Low noise
    Manual handling Muscular strain
    emitting machines have been purchased.
    Protective equipment such as ear plugs
    is used by workers.
    „ Low risk of daily exposure to manual
    handling risks. Mechanical aids, work
    station alterations and systems of work
    significantly eliminate and reduce risk

    Do safety data sheets and labels specify a first aid response? Yes – seek medical assistance if chemicals
    are inhaled or ingested

    Required first aid

    Number of first aiders needed 9 – minimum 3 per shift (1 for office and 2 for the plant)

    Training and competencies Applied First Aid: providing competencies to recognise and respond
    for first aiders to common life-threatening injuries or illnesses using cardiopulmonary
    resuscitation (CPR) and other first aid procedures, and provide
    appropriate first aid for a range of injuries and illnesses.

    Number and location of kits 5 kits: one on the office floor and four on the factory floor

    Contents of first aid kits and Standard workplace kit, with burns module and eye module
    modules

    Kit maintenance Tasked to 6 first aiders

    20 CODE OF PRACTICE | FIRST AID IN THE WORKPLACE

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