A-3.001, r. 10 - First-aid Minimum Standards Regulation

Section 5 Disposition versions

2020-09-17

5. A vehicle used by an employer in the operation of his establishment and intended solely for the transportation or use of workers employed by him must be provided with a first-aid kit if it travels in areas where no first-aid kit is accessible in accordance with section 4.

The minimum content of the kit is that prescribed in section 4 where the vehicle can carry more than 5 workers and where the workers are more than 30 minutes from a medical service.

The minimum content of the kit in vehicles not covered by the second paragraph is the content provided for in clause 5.3 of CAN/CSA Standard Z1220-17, First aid kits for the workplace.

O.C. 1922-84, s. 5; O.C. 1798-87, s. 2; O.C. 891-2020, s. 2.

2012-09-01

5. A vehicle used by an employer in the operation of his establishment and intended solely for the transportation or use of workers employed by him must be provided with a first-aid kit if it travels in areas where no first-aid kit is accessible under section 4.

The minimum content of the kit is that prescribed in section 4 where the vehicle can carry more than 5 workers and where the workers are more than 30 minutes from a medical service.

The minimum content of the kit in vehicles not covered by the second paragraph is the following:

(a)  a first-aid manual approved by the Commission;

(b)  the following instruments:

— 1 pair bandage scissors,

— 12 safety pins (assorted sizes);

(c)  the following dressings (or equivalent sizes):

— 5 sterile adhesive bandages (25 mm × 75 mm) individually wrapped,

— 5 sterile gauze squares (101.6 mm × 101.6 mm) individually wrapped,

— 1 roll sterile gauze bandage (50 mm × 9 m),

— 1 roll sterile gauze bandage (101.6 mm × 9 m),

— 2 sterile bandage compresses (101.6 mm × 101.6 mm) individually wrapped,

— 2 triangular bandages,

— 1 roll adhesive tape (25 mm × 9 m);

(d)  antiseptics:

— 5 alcohol swabs individually wrapped.

O.C. 1922-84, s. 5; O.C. 1798-87, s. 2.