First aid

In every factory the following requirements shall have effect– (a) there shall be provided and maintained so as to be readily accessible a first aid box or cupboard containing the equipment specified in the Second Schedule hereto, and where more than one hundred persons are employed an additional box or cupboard for every additional one hundred persons; (b) the number of first aid boxes or cupboards required under this regulation shall be calculated on the largest number of persons employed at any one time and fractions of one hundred shall be reckoned as one hundred. Where the persons employed are employed on shifts, the calculation of the number employed shall be according to the largest number at work at any one time; 22 Factories (c) every first aid box or cupboard shall be placed under the charge of a responsible person who shall, in the case of a factory where more than thirty persons are employed, be trained in first aid treatment.