546 Appendix a: Safety and Emergencies
A First Aid Kit
Every workplace, health post, and community center should have a first aid kit
to provide treatment in emergencies. Make a first aid kit in a container with a
tightly fitting cover so water, dust, or chemicals cannot leak into the kit. Make
sure everyone in the community or workplace, including new workers, knows
where the kit is kept and how to use it.
Whabtctnobxpnucbt in a first aid kit
Cups for
drinking
A blanket to
cover an injured
or sick person
One bottle of activated
charcoal or powdered
charcoal (see page 258)
Two quarts or liters
of drinking water
List of chemicals
used in the area
or workplace
and their health
effects. For
pesticides, list
what crops they
are used on
Spare clothes to
change into in case of
contamination or exposure
Salt (to mix with water
to cause vomiting if
someone swallows a
poison, see page 257)
A pocket mask, piece of cloth, or
thick plastic wrap with a hole cut
in the middle to use when you do
mouth-to-mouth breathing
Clean bandages, gauze or cloth,
and tape to cover cuts and scrapes
Medicines that are
listed as antidotes for
poisoning on the labels
of pesticides or other
chemicals you may use
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