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Occupational First Aid - Enacted March 30, 2004
Thursday, October 18, 2007 |  Printer Friendly
3.14 Definitions
In this section and in sections 3.15 to 3.21,
"first aid" means
(a) in cases in which a person will need medical treatment, treatment for the purpose of preserving life and minimizing the consequences of injury until medical treatment is obtained, and
(b) treatment of minor injuries that would otherwise receive no medical treatment or that do not need medical treatment;
"first aid attendant" means a person who holds a valid first aid certificate issued by the Board or by a person recognized by the Board and who is designated as a frist aid attendant by the employer;
"injured worker" means a worker who suffers an injury during work;
"injury" includes an occupational disease or illness;
"medical certificate" means a report in a form acceptable to the Board from a physician registered under the Medical Practitioners Act as to a person's fitness to perform the functions of a first aid attendant.
3.15 First aid attendant qualifications
The employer must ensure that a person who is designated as a first aid attendant
(a) is at least 16 years old,
(b) has successfully completed the first aid training course or first aid examination developed or approved by the Board,
(c) has a first aid certificate in good standing at the required level issued by the Board or a person recognized by the Board, and
(d) meets any other requirements determined by the Board for designation as a first aid attendant.
3.16 Basic requirements
(1) The employer must provide for each workpalce such equipment, supplies, facilities, first aid attendants and services as are adequate and appropriate for
(a) promptly rendering first aid to workers if they suffer an injury at work, and
(b) transporting injured workers to medical treatment.
(2) For the purpose of complying with subsection (1), the employer must conduct an assessment of the circumstances of the workplace, including
(a) the number of workers who may require first aid at any time,
(b) the nature and extent of the risks and hazards in the workplace, including whether or not the workplace as a whole creates a low risk of injury,
(c) the types of injuries likely to occur,
(d) any barriers to first aid being provided to an injured worker, and
(e) the time that may be required to obtain transportation and to transport an injured worker to medical treatment.
(3) The employer must review the assessment yunder subsection (2)
(a) within 12 months after the previous assessment or review, and
(b) whenever a significant change affecting the assessment occurs in the employer's operations.
(4) First aid equipment, supplies and facilities must be kept clean, dry and ready for use, and be readily accessible at any time a worker works in the workplace.
3.17 First aid procedures
(1) The employer must keep up-to-date written procedures for providing first aid at the worksite including
(a) the equipment, supplies, facilities, first aid attendants and services available,
(b) the location of, and how to call for, first aid,
(c) how the first aid attendant is to respond to a call for first aid,
(d) the authority of the first aid attendant over the treatment of injured workers and the responsibility of the employer to report injuries to the Board,
(e) who is to ball for transportation for the injured worker, and the method of transportation and calling, and
(f) prearranged routes in and out of the workplace and to medical treatment.
(2) The employer must post the procedures conspicuously in suitable locations throughout the workplace or, if posting is not practicable, the employer must adopt other measures to ensure that the information is effectively communicated to workers.
(3) The first aid attendant and all other persons authorized to call for transportation for injured workers must be trained in the procedures.
3.18 Communication and availability
(1) The employer must provide an effective means for
(a) communication between the first aid attendant and the workers served, and
(b) the first aid attendant to call for assistance.
(2) The employer must not assign, and the first aid attendant must not undertake, employment activities that will interfere with the attendant's ability to receive and respond to request for first aid.
3.19 First aid records
(1) The employer must maintain at the workplace, in a form acceptable to the Board, a record of all injuries and exposures to contaminants by this Regulation that are reported or treated.
(2) First aid records must be kept for at least 3 years.
(3) First aid records are to be kept confidential and may not be disclosed except as permitted by this Regulation or otherwise permitted by law.
(4) First aid records must be available for inspection by an officer of the Board.
(5) Workers may request or authorize access to their first aid records for any treatment or report about themselves.
3.20 Multiple employer workplaces
If workers of 2 or more employers are working at a workpalce at the same time, the prime contractor must
(a) conduct an assessment of the circumstances of the workplace under section 3.16
(2) in relation to all the workers in the workplace, and
(b) do everything that is reasonably practicable to establish and maintain the first aid equipment, supplies, facilities, first aid attendants and services in accordance with the results of the assessment.
3.21 First aid attendant responsibilities
(1) The first aid attendant must
(a) prompty provide injured workers with a level of care within the scope of the attendants training and this Part,
(b) objectively record observed or reported signs and symptoms of injuries and exposures to contaminants covered by this Regulation, and
(c) refer for medical treatment workers with injuries considered by the first aid attendant as being serious or beyong the scope of the attendants training.
(2) A first aid attendant must be physically and mentally capable of safely and effectively performing the required duties, and the Board may at any time require the attendant to provide a medical certificate.
(3) The first aid attendant is responsible, and has full authority, for all first aid treatment of an injured worker until responsibility for treatment is accepted
(a) at a palce of medical treatment,
(b) by an ambulance service acceptable to the Board, or
(c) by a person with higher or equivalent first aid certification.
(4) The first aid attendant does not have the authority to overrule a worker's decision to seek medical treatment or the worker's choice of medical treatment.
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