First Aid for Workplaces - A good Practice Guide
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Appendix 4: How should a First Aid Room be set up?
If you provide a first aid room ensure that:
- someone is available to take responsibility for the room and its contents, including ensuring that it's cleaned regularly and that stocks are replenished
- the room is always readily available when employees are at work, including during shift work and overtime
- preferably the room shouldn't be used for any other purpose, although you may want to consider using it for employees who are breastfeeding mothers
- the room is located on a ground floor, as near as possible to a building entrance and is signposted so emergency services can easily find it. Your local ambulance service may be able to provide advice on the best access points
- the room has ventilation and heating and is well lit
- the room is large enough to hold a couch or bed with space for people to walk around it, and a chair
- the entrance to the room is wide enough to accommodate a stretcher, wheelchair or carrying chair
- the room contains suitable first aid facilities and equipment, has a waterproof floor covering and is well maintained. All surfaces should be easy to clean and should be cleaned regularly. There should be suitable arrangements for disposing of rubbish, and laundering sheets, blankets and towels, where needed
- The room has a basin with hot and cold running water, soap and clean disposable towels
- The room has cupboards for storing first aid supplies.