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Alberta Occupational Health and Safety
Regulations for First Aiders and First Aid Kits
All workplaces in Alberta are required to have staff trained in First Aid to cover all work shifts.
This includes businesses that you wouldn't typically think of, such as small corner grocery stores, to retail, to office environments with a couple of staff, to large corporations, right up to heavy industry - all require some staff to be trained in First Aid and to have an approved First Aid kit.
The level of First Aid training, the number of staff to be trained, and the number and types of First Aid kits required depends on three factors:
- the hazard level involved with the work,
- the number of employees per shift in an area,
- the distance in travel time to a hospital. |
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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 (low hazard),6 (medium hazard) or 7(high Hazard).
Provincial Regulations on First Aid courses & kits required for low, medium, and high hazard workplaces can be viewed and downloaded in pdf format from the provincial government 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.
Occupational Health and Safety regulated kits
Number 1 kit (small)
Number 2 kit (medium)
Number 3 kit (large)
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.
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Metal |
Plastic |
Padded |
Refills |
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| Number 1 |
$30 |
$20 |
$26 |
$20 |
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| Number 2 |
$50 |
$40 |
$56 |
$36 |
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| Number 3 |
$100 |
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$84 |
$50 |
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Prices include gst. Prices subject to change. For contents,
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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.