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Public-service vehicles

Transport regulations require that all minibuses and public-service vehicles carry a readily available and clearly marked first-aid container stocked with the following:

  • Ten antiseptic wipes, foil packaged
  • One disposable bandage (not less than 7.5cm wide)
  • Two triangular bandages
  • One packet of 24 assorted adhesive dressings
  • Three large sterile unmedicated ambulance dressings (not less than 15cm x 20cm)
  • Two sterile eye pads, with attachments
  • Twelve assorted safety pins
  • One pair of rustless blunt-ended scissors
Source: Guidance on First Aid for Schools: A Good Practice Guide, Department for Education and Employment, 1996.
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