Facilities and staff · OSH Code
First aid
- All the time
- Employer
What to do
Provide first aid boxes or cupboards, readily accessible during working hours, at least a fully equipped one in every department or section, each in the charge in every shift of a worker or supervisor certified in first aid, and display a notice of the first-aid facilities, the person in charge and the nearest hospitals in English or Hindi and the local language rule 54.
Who it applies to
The employer of every factory, mine, building or other construction work, industrial premise for manufacture of beedi and cigar, motor transport undertaking, dock work and plantation rule 54.
When
During working hours rule 54.
How
Add first aid boxes where a department or section has more than 200 employees rule 54.
Train at least thirty-three percent of the workers in first aid, with refresher training every three years, and at least one woman where women are employed rule 54.
Arrange speedy transport of a seriously injured or ill employee to the nearest dispensary or hospital, preferably by ambulance van rule 54.
Mines also need first-aid stations, including at every other place where more than 50 persons are employed at any one time, and a list of them kept in the mine office rule 54.