Templates / Site set-up and welfare

First aid kit check

Checklist · Every month, and after a kit is used

Checks each first aid kit is stocked to the site's first aid needs assessment, in date and easy to find, and that a first aider or appointed person is named.

Use it in Sitro: add it to a project and fill it on a phone, free for 14 days.

The law and guidance behind it

Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981, Regulations 3 and 4
HSE L74, First aid at work

The questions

Where and when

Kit location
Date

The kit

Easy to find, marked with the white cross on green
Stocked as the first aid needs assessment says (dressings, plasters, gloves, eye pads, triangular bandages)
Nothing past its use-by date
Eye wash where there's a risk to the eyes
Burns dressings where there's hot work

First aiders

A first aider or appointed person named on the notice board, with how to reach them
Cover on every shift and when the first aider is away

Actions

Anything found that needs putting right (write "None" if nothing)
Action taken or who it was passed to

Sign-off

Checked by
Date and time
Signature

A template to adapt to your site, not legal advice.