First Aid Kit Requirements for Singapore Workplaces

Workplace first aid in Singapore sits under the Workplace Safety and Health framework. Employers have a duty to provide adequate first aid provision, and "adequate" is determined by the workplace, not by a standard box.

What drives the requirement

Three things:

• Headcount — more people, more provision and more trained first aiders.
• Hazard profile — a construction site, a workshop with machinery and a quiet office have genuinely different risks.
• Distance to medical help — a remote site needs more capability on hand.

A risk assessment is the mechanism that turns these into a specification. Buying a kit off a shelf without one means you have a box, not a justification.

Typical contents

Most workplace kits include sterile dressings in a range of sizes, adhesive plasters, triangular bandages, conforming bandages, sterile eye pads, disposable gloves, scissors, adhesive tape, safety pins, a resuscitation face shield and an accident record book.

Higher-risk sites add burn dressings, eyewash, haemorrhage control and immobilisation depending on the hazards identified.

What is usually missing

• A named person responsible. An unowned kit is an unmaintained kit.
• A check schedule with a signed record.
• Restocking after use. The most common failure: a kit used in March and never replenished.
• Signage. People must know where it is without asking.
• Accessibility. A kit locked in an office nobody can enter out of hours is not provision.

Trained first aiders

Equipment without trained people is half the requirement. Certification lapses; track expiry dates alongside the kit's check dates.

Heat

Worth noting for Singapore specifically: heat-related illness is a real workplace risk for outdoor and un-airconditioned work, and provision for cooling and rehydration deserves a place in the risk assessment.

Kits are in first aid and emergency bags. For a site rather than an individual, send us the workplace type and headcount and we will quote against it — request a quote.

General guidance. Confirm current obligations against the WSH regulations applicable to your workplace.

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