The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (Lakshadweep) Rules, 2025
Rule 118. Ambulance van
Official text
(1) In any factory carrying on hazardous process. there shall be provided and maintained in good condition, a suitably constructed ambulance van equipped with items as per sub-rule (2) and manned by a full- time Driver-cum-mechanic and helper trained in first-aid for the purposes of transportation of serious cases of accidents or sickness. The ambulance van shall not be used for any purpose other than the purpose stipulated herein and will normally be stationed at or near to the Occupational Health Centre
Provided that a factory employing less than two hundred workers may make arrangements for procuring such facility at short notice from nearby hospital or other places, to meet any emergency.
(2) The ambulance should have the following equipment: -
(a) General --- A wheeled stretcher with folding and adjusting devices; with the head of the stretcher capable of being tilled upward -- Fixed suction unit with equipment; -- Fixed oxygen supply with equipment; -- Pillow with case, sheets, blankets, towels; -- Emesis bag, bed Pan, urinal, glass
(b) Safety equipment ---Flares with life of thirty minutes; Flood lights; --Flash lights, Fire extinguisher dry powder type; Insulated gauntlets.
(1) Emergency care equipment’s-
(i) Resuscitation --- Portable suction unit, portable Oxygen units; -- Bag-valve-mask, hand operated artificial ventilation unit; -- Airways; -- Mouth gases: -- Tracheostomy adaptors; -- Short spine board; -- I. V. Fluids with administration unit; -- B.P. manometer; -- Gugg; -- Stethoscope
(ii) Immobilization --- Long and short padded boards; -- Wire ladder splints; -- Triangular bandage; -- Long and short spine boards.
(iii) Dressings --- Gauze pads - 4" x 4"; -- Universal dressing 10·• x 36"; --Roll of aluminium foils; -- Adhesive tape of 3"; -- Safety pins; Bandage sheets; -- Burn sheet.
(iv) Poisoning --- Syrup of lpecae; -- Activated Charcoal pre-packeted in doses; Snake bite kit; -- Drinking water.
(v) Emergency Medicines --- As per requirement (under the advice of Medical Officer only).