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First-aid
Requirements for Personnel and Equipment for Construction
and General Industry
Title
8 Section 1512
Emergency
Medical Services
- Provision
of Services. Where more than one employer is involved
in a single construction project on a given construction
site, each employer is responsible to ensure the availability
of emergency medical services for its employees. The
employer on the project may agree to ensure employee
access to emergency medical services for the combined
work force present at the job site. Such an emergency
medical service program shall be adequate to service
the combined work force present, but only one emergency
medical program need be established at such site.
- Appropriately
Trained Person. Each employer shall ensure the
availability of a suitable number of appropriately
trained persons to render first aid. Where more than
one employer is involved in a single construction
project on a given construction site, the employers
may form a pool of appropriately trained persons.
However, such pool shall be large enough to service
the combined work forces of such employers.
- First-aid
Kit.
- Every
employer working on or furnishing personnel on a
construction project, on line crews and on other
short duration or transient jobs shall provide at
least one first-aid kit in the weatherproof container.
The contents of the first-aid kit shall be inspected
regularly to ensure that the expended items are
promptly replaced. The contents of the first-aid
kit shall be arranged to be quickly found and remain
sanitary. First-aid dressings shall be sterile in
individually sealed packages for each item. The
minimum first-aid supplies shall be determined by
an employer-authorized, licensed physician or in
accordance with the following table:
Supplies
for First-aid
Type of Supply Required
by Number of Employees
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Dressings
in adequate quantities consisting of:
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1-5
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6-15
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16-200
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Over
200
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1.
Adhesive dressings
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X
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X
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X
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X
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2.
Adhesive tape rolls, 1—inch wide
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X
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X
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X
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X
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3.
Eye Dressing packet
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X
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X
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X
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X
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4.
1—inch gauze bandage roll or compress
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X
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X
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X
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5.
2—inch gauze bandage roll or compress
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X
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X
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X
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X
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6.
4—inch gauze bandage roll or compress
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X
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X
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X
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7.
Sterile Gauze Pads, 2—inch square
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X
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X
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X
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X
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8.
Sterile Gauze Pads, 4—inch square
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X
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X
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X
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X
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9.
Sterile Surgical pads suitable for pressure dressing
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X
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X
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X
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X
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10.
Triangular Bandages
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X
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X
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X
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X
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11.
Safety Pins
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X
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X
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X
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X
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12.
Tweezers and scissors
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X
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X
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X
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X
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*
Additional equipment in adequate quantities consisting
of:
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13.
Cotton-tipped Applicators
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X
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X
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14.
Forceps
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X
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X
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15.
Emesis Basin
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X
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X
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16.
Flashlight
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X
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X
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17.
Magnifying Glass
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X
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X
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| 18.
Portable Oxygen and its breathing equipment |
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X
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| 19.
Tongue Depressors |
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X
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| Appropriate
Records Forms |
X
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X
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X
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X
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Up
to Date 'Standard' or 'Advanced' first-aid textbook,
manual or equivalent
*to
be readily available within the first-aid kit
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X
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X
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X
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X
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- Other
supplies and equipment, when provided, shall be
in accordance with the documented recommendations
of an employer-authorized, licensed physician upon
consideration of the extent and type of emergency
care to be given based upon the anticipated incidence
and nature of injuries and illnesses and availability
of transportation to medical care.
- Drugs,
antiseptics, eye irritation solutions, inhalants,
medicines, or proprietary preparations shall not
be included in first-aid kits unless specifically
approved in writing by an employer-authorized, licensed
physician.
(d).
Informing Employees of Emergency Procedures. Each
employer shall inform all of his employees of the procedure
to follow in case of injury or illness.
(e).
Provisions for Obtaining Emergency Medical Services.
Proper equipment for the prompt transportation of the
injured or ill person to a physician or hospital where
emergency care is provided, or an effective communication
system for contacting hospitals or other emergency medical
facilities, physicians, ambulance and fire services,
shall be provided. The telephone numbers of the following
emergency services in the area shall be posted near
the job telephone switchboard, or otherwise made available
to the employees where no job site telephone exists:
1).
A physician and at least one alternate if available
2).
Hospitals
3).
Services
4).
Fire – Protection Services
(f).
Emergency Washing Facilities. Where the eyes
or body of any person may be exposed to injurious or
corrosive materials, suitable facilities for drenching
the body or flushing the eyes with clean water shall
be conspicuously and readily accessible.
(g).
Emergency Call Systems. A two-way voice emergency
communication system shall be installed, for buildings
and structures five or more floors or 48 feet or more
above or below ground level, to notify persons designated
in the emergency medical services plan. The location
and condition of the employee shall be able to be communicated
over the system. The use of construction passenger elevators
for medical emergencies shall take precedence over all
other use.
EXCEPTION:
Where
jobsite conditions prevent or impair the communication
of the required information over the system, an alternative
system acceptable to the Division shall be used.
(h).
Basket Litter. At least one basket or equally
appropriate litter equipped with straps and two blankets,
or other similar warm covering, shall be provided for
each building or structure five or more floors or 48
feet or more either above or below ground level.
(i).
Written Plan. The employer shall have a written
plan to provide emergency medical services. The plan
shall specify the means of implementing all applicable
requirements in this section. When employees form a
combined emergency medical services program with appropriately
trained persons, one written plan will be considered
acceptable to comply with the intent of this subsection.
NOTE:
The
provisions of Section 1512 are not intended to exclude
immediate treatment of minor injuries, which do not
require the services of a physician.
NOTE:
Authority
cited: Section 142.3, Labor Code. Reference: Section
142.3, Labor Code.
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