First aid obligations for:
Trades & Home Services
Builders, electricians, plumbers, painters and other trades often work alone, on the move, and on other people's sites. First aid has to be practical and portable — because help isn't always close and the site changes every day.
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Trades work brings cuts, falls from height and ladders, electric shock, burns, eye injuries and manual-handling strains — often as a lone worker on an unfamiliar site with the public nearby.
Trained First Aiders
For small trade businesses, first aid training for the people on the tools matters most, since they are often working alone. On shared or larger sites, make sure trained cover is within reach of every work area.
First aid kits
A compact, well-stocked kit in every vehicle and on every job is the practical approach — including provisions for serious bleeding, burns and eye injuries.
AEDs
A fixed AED is less practical for mobile trades, but knowing where the nearest public AED is on each site — and having staff trained to use one — is worth planning for.
See exactly what your workplace needs
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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