Occupational Health and    Safety regulated kits     Number 1 kit      Number 2 kit      Number 3 kit       The type and number of kit(s) your company needs depends on a number of factors: the degree of hazards involved with the work, the number of employees per shift in an area and the distance in travel time to a hospital.
Schedules for First Aiders and Kits Required  In accordance with Alberta First Aid Regulation, all employers are obligated to ensure the health and safety of their workers and that the number of First Aiders at a work site, and their qualifications, comply with Schedule 2, Tables 5,6 or 7. Provincial Regulations on First Aid courses & kits required for low, medium, and high hazard workplaces. The entire document is available in pdf format at http://employment.alberta.ca/documents/WHS/WHS-LEG_ohsc_2009.pdf See Schedule 2 of "Part 11 First Aid," pages S2-1 to S2-7. OH&S Kit and Refill Prices: Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) kits are available in metal, plastic and padded containers.Metal kits are shown above. Call your local St. John Centre to order.

 

Schedule 2 First Aid
Table 1 Low Hazard Work
"Low hazard work" means work at:
(a) administrative sites where the work performed is clerical or administrative in nature;
(b) dispersal sites
(i) where a worker is based
(ii) where a worker is required to report for instruction, and
(iii) from which a worker is transported to a work site where the work is performed.


Table 2 High Hazard Work
"High hazard work" means work involving:
(a) construction or demolition, including
(i) industrial and commercial process facilities,
(ii) pipelines and related gas or oil transmission facilities,
(iii) commercial, residential and industrial buildings,
(iv) roads, highways, bridges and related installations,
(v) sewage gathering systems,
(vi) utility installations, and
(vii) water distribution systems;
(b) operation and maintenance of
(i) food packaging or processing plants,
(ii) beverage processing plants,
(iii) electrical generation and distribution systems,
(iv) foundries
(v) industrial heavy equipment repair and service facilities
(vi) sawmills and lumber processing facilities,
(vii) machine shops,
(viii) metal fabrication shops,
(ix) gas, oil and chemical process plants,
(x) steel and other base metal processing plants, and
(xi) industrial process facilities not elsewhere specified;
(c) woodland operations;
(d) gas and oil well drilling and servicing operations;
(e) mining and quarrying operations;
(f) seismic operations;
(g) detonation of explosives.