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The Safe Work Australia model Code of Practice sets out what that looks like, and most states have adopted it. Beyond the law, most head contractors and principal contractors set their own site requirements, and they are often stricter. Check what your client expects before you turn up.

The SURVIVAL Workplace First Aid KIT is nationally compliant with that Code of Practice and is the straightforward answer for most trades.

WHAT ACTUALLY GOES WRONG ON SITE

Cuts from blades and sheet metal, eye injuries from grinding and drilling, crush injuries, falls, and burns from welding and hot work.

The everyday ones are lacerations and eye injuries. The ones that matter are the bleeds. A circular saw or an angle grinder can produce an injury that is life-threatening in minutes, which is well inside an ambulance response time even in a city.

The SURVIVAL Trauma First Aid KIT covers serious bleeding and belongs in the ute, not the site shed.

KEEP IT WHERE YOU WORK, NOT WHERE YOU PARK

A compliant KIT locked in a site office that one supervisor has the key to is a box that ticks an audit and helps nobody.

The SURVIVAL First Aid KIT - Medium mounts easily in a vehicle. The SURVIVAL Grab&Go First Aid KIT is the one you carry up a ladder or into a roof space, because the KIT that is fifty metres away might as well be at home.

SOLE TRADERS AND SUBBIES

Working alone is the risk multiplier nobody prices in.

If you are on a site by yourself, nobody is applying pressure to your arm for you. That makes a tourniquet you can apply one-handed genuinely worth carrying, and it makes telling someone your schedule worth doing.

The Heavy Vehicle First Aid Bundle suits operators with specific obligations through their own standards or their clients'.

TRAINING BEATS EQUIPMENT

A compliant KIT and nobody trained is the most common gap on Australian sites.

Work out who on your crew is trained, whether the certificate is current, and what happens on the days they are not on site. Everything inside the KIT is colour-coded and labelled, which matters enormously when the trained person is the one who is hurt.

Also see Workplace, High Risk Workplace and Car.