Rural

Machinery, livestock, chainsaws, augers, quads and horses produce crush and laceration injuries rather than grazes. And an ambulance that is forty minutes away on a good day may be an hour and a half if it has to find the right gate.

That gap is what your KIT has to cover. The SURVIVAL First Aid KIT - Large carries the depth to treat three or more people and keep going when one dressing is never enough.

ONE KIT IS NOT ENOUGH ON A PROPERTY

The house, the shed, the ute and the tractor are four different places, and injuries do not politely happen near the one KIT you own.

Put a full KIT in the house and the shed, and a vehicle KIT in anything that leaves the yard. The SURVIVAL First Aid KIT - Medium mounts easily in a ute or a tractor cab.

Make sure everyone who works on the place knows where each one is, including contractors and shearers who are only there for a week.

BLEEDING IS THE ONE THAT KILLS

A chainsaw or an auger injury can be fatal in minutes, which is well inside the time it takes anyone to reach you.

The SURVIVAL Trauma First Aid KIT is built for exactly this, and its product page names heavy machinery, arborists and remote workers among its uses. Carry it where the dangerous work happens, not in the house.

SNAKES ARE A DAILY FACT, NOT AN EVENT

Hay sheds, wood piles, chook pens, irrigation lines and long grass. On a property you will see them, and eventually someone will be bitten.

The SURVIVAL Snake Bite KIT should be somewhere permanent and obvious, not in a drawer. It carries a SMART Bandage with a printed pictogram that changes from a rectangle to a square when you reach correct tension, developed with snake safety experts SSSafe. SURVIVAL recommends proper first aid training alongside any KIT.

EYES, EARS AND LUNGS

Grinding, welding, spraying, grain dust and a lifetime of engine noise. Rural injuries are not all sudden, and the slow ones cost more.

The SURVIVAL Safety Centre KIT is portable personal protective equipment rather than first aid: UVEX Pheos safety glasses, a UVEX P2 face mask and earplugs. Prevention belongs in the same shed as the treatment.

Also see Remote & Outdoor Work, High Risk Workplace and 4WDing.