What Medicines Should Be in a First Aid Box for 50 Employees Under the Factory Act 1948?

Hi all,

Dear all, I am having an urgent need to know what medicines should be kept in first aid boxes as per the Factory Act 1948 if a factory is employing about 50 employees. Please provide me help on an urgent basis.

Regards,
Rajput
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Hello Friend,

Attached herewith is a checklist and a list of medicines that we need to maintain in the First Aid Box. This should be sufficient.

Regards,
Ashutosh Chaturvedi

Dear Ashish,

It is not mandatory for you to maintain a medicine box because under the Factory Act, when there are 100-150 workers, then you have to maintain a medicine box for them.

Regards,
Ashish

Dear Member,

If your establishment is covered under The Factories Act, 1948 & The Punjab Factory Rules, 1952, then please go through Rule 69 [C] of the Punjab Factory Rules as applicable to the State of Haryana for the list of contents to be kept in the first aid box.

Regards,
R.N. Khola

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Dear,

I want the list of contents of the first aid box with the proper quantity along with size (Dimension) for 400 employees.

Thanking You.

First-Aid Box Requirements

First-aid boxes, at the rate of not less than 1 (one) box for 150 (one hundred and fifty) workers or part thereof, distinctively marked with a red cross on a white ground, should be available and readily accessible during working hours.

a. Where the number of workers employed exceeds 19 (nineteen) but does not exceed 50 (fifty), the first-aid box shall contain the following equipment:

- 12 small sterilized dressings
- 6 medium size sterilized dressings
- 6 large size sterilized dressings
- 6 large size sterilized burn dressings
- 6 (½ oz.) packets sterilized cotton wool
- 1 roll of adhesive plaster
- 1 (2 oz.) bottle containing a 2 percent alcoholic solution of iodine
- 1 (2 oz.) bottle of sal-volatile with the dose and mode of administration indicated on the label
- 1 (1 oz.) bottle of potassium permanganate crystals
- 1 snake bite lancet
- 1 pair of scissors
- 1 copy of the first-aid leaflet approved by the Chief Inspector of Factories

b. Where the number of workers employed exceeds 50 (fifty), the requirements for the first-aid box are doubled in number for items (i) to (vi), doubled in quantity for items (vii) to (ix), and remain the same for items (x) to (xii). Additionally, there is a requirement to provide:

- 12 roller bandages 4 inches wide
- 12 roller bandages 2 inches wide
- 6 triangular bandages
- 2 packets of safety pins
- A supply of suitable splints
- 1 tourniquet

The first-aid box must be kept in charge of a responsible person who needs to always be readily available during the working hours of the establishment. The person in charge of the first-aid box is trained in First Aid treatment.

Could anybody provide me with the First Aid contents as per the Maharashtra Factory Act 1948 for 100 employees in the garment industry?

Thank you.

Dear all, please inform if we can distribute medicine according to the Factory Act of 1948.

Regards,
Vipin Kumar Rajput

You may only keep an Aspirin tablet or a Paracetamol tablet as per the factory act. Other than these two oral medicines, you may keep antiseptic cream, pain-relieving cream, and burn cream.

With Regards,
Grannus First Aid
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You may also keep iodine, Dettol, or burn cream, cotton bandage, eye drops, antiseptic cream, and paracetamol tablets.

Can anyone give me the latest list of contents to be kept in the first aid box as per the factories' rule of Telangana?