First aid guide
How is workplace first aid risk assessed?
Risk assessment considers hazards, workforce, visitors, remoteness, shifts and other workplace characteristics.
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A sound first aid risk assessment weighs your workforce, hazards, shifts, public exposure and distance from emergency help. The free First Aid Check does exactly this for your workplace — combining current regulations, best-practice ratios and your ACC industry risk category — and gives you a personalised, defensible result you can keep on record.
Common misconceptions
Many businesses assume every workplace has identical requirements. In reality, first aid arrangements should reflect the risks and circumstances of each workplace.
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The surest way to get this right is a proper assessment of your own site. First Aid Check’s free assessment is built on current NZ first aid regulations, best-practice first-aider ratios and ACC industry risk categories — so your result reflects the rules and your real risk, not a generic rule of thumb. A few minutes gives you a personalised report you can act on.
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