Is your PHCP-PVF distribution company prepared for injuries?
To determine which kit is appropriate for your work environment, it is important to understand what injuries have occurred, and more importantly, which injuries could occur.
It’s an all-too-familiar refrain. A person is handling material and it slips out of his/her hands. The worker isn’t wearing appropriate hand protection and the sharp corner of the object digs into the worker’s palm causing a laceration that bleeds profusely.
Medical treatment is summoned and a coworker appears with a small, dusty and dirty first-aid kit that may have never been used. The kit is half empty and contains a tiny roll of gauze and antiseptic towelettes that expired three years ago. The Band-Aid box is bare and the medical tape has turned into an empty plastic spool. Has this situation played out at your worksite?