First Aid

Emergency First Aid service can be provided by the Security & Traffic Department as well as by selected trained employees throughout the campus buildings. Security can transport injured individuals to the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital if required.

First Aid Qualified

The names of First Aid and C.P.R. trained personnel are posted near each First Aid kit, fire alarm pull stations or central bulletin boards on a yellow poster which is updated annually by EHS Office.

First Aid Kits
Occupational Health & Safety Act, New Brunswick Regulation 91-191

First Aid kits are readily available in most of the University's larger buildings and must be maintained by departments.

Where there are fewer than ten employees at any one time in a place of employment, an employer shall provide one first aid kit with the following minimum content: (N.B. No.1 Kit)

(a) a standard first aid manual;
(b) the following instruments:
i) one pair of 140 mm stainless steel scissors;
ii) one pair of tweezers; and
iii) twelve safety pins;
(c) the following dressings:
i )twenty-five sterile adhesive bandages (25 mm x 75 mm) individually wrapped;
ii) five sterile gauze squares (100 mm x 100 mm) individually wrapped;
iii) one roll of gauze bandage (50 mm x 9 mm) individually wrapped;
iv) two sterile bandage compresses (100 mm x 100 mm) individually wrapped;
v) two triangular bandages;
vi) one roll of adhesive tape (25 mm x 9 m); and
vii)t wo sterile eye shields individually wrapped;
(d) a recognized skin antiseptic other than iodine;
(e) a tube of water soluble burn treatment not less than 55 g;
(f) one pair of rubber gloves;
(g) one pocket mask;
(h) one package of cotton tipped applicators;
(i) twenty-four hand cleansers; and
(j) two tongue depressors.

Where there are ten to one hundred employees at any one time in a place of employment, an employer shall provide one first aid kit with the following minimum content: (N.B. No. 2 Kit)

(a) a standard first aid manual;
(b) the following instruments:
i) one pair of 140 mm stainless steel scissors;
ii) one pair of tweezers; and
iii) twelve safety pins;
(c) the following dressings:
i) fifty sterile adhesive bandages of assorted sizes and individually wrapped;
ii) twenty-four sterile gauze squares (100 mm x 100 mm) individually wrapped;
iii) four rolls of gauze bandage (75 mm x 9 mm) individually wrapped;
iv) four sterile bandage compresses (100 mm x 100 mm) individually wrapped;
v) six triangular bandages;
vi) two rolls of adhesive tape (25 mm x 9 m); and
vii) four sterile eye shields individually wrapped;
(d) a recognized skin antiseptic other than iodine;
(e) a tube of water soluble burn treatment not less than 55 g;
(f) one pair of rubber gloves;
(g) one pocket mask;
(h) one package of cotton tipped applicators;
(i) thirty-six hand cleansers; and
(j) six tongue depressors.