Question: Pharmacy organizations sell first-aid kits for employees, equipped in accordance with the requirements of the Order of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation of 05.03.2011 N 169n. How many workers is one first aid kit for?
Answer: According to Art. 212 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, within the framework of ensuring safe conditions and labor protection, the employer is also obliged to provide sanitary, household and treatment-and-prophylactic services to employees in accordance with labor protection requirements. Moreover, according to Art. 223 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation in an organization, according to established standards, sanitary and utility rooms, rooms for eating, rooms for providing medical care, rooms for rest during working hours and psychological relief are equipped; sanitary posts are created with first aid kits, complete with a set of medicines and preparations for first aid.
Currently, the current legislation has not established the norms defining the number of sanitary posts with first-aid kits in the organization.
Order of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation dated 05.03.2011 N 169n approved "Requirements for the complete set of products medical purpose first aid kits for providing first aid to workers ".
These requirements contain instructions on the mandatory amount of each specific name of medical devices, which must be contained in the first-aid kit.
Therefore, regardless of the number of employees in the organization, the first-aid kit at any time must be fully equipped with the number of each item of medical device specified in the Requirements.
Thus, the employer should equip the sanitary posts with first aid kits specified in the Labor Code of the Russian Federation in such a way that workers, if necessary, can have prompt access to first aid kits for first aid.
It is necessary to complete first-aid kits at these posts, taking into account the number of employees served by a particular sanitary post, with such a number of medical products so that at least the number of each item of medical equipment established by the Requirements remains in the first-aid kit.
As an alternative, it is possible to propose to have in the organization at each sanitary post not one, but several complete first-aid kits.
Note that the presence of an incompletely equipped first-aid kit at the time of inspection by the labor inspectorate, the absence of a first-aid kit in the organization, as well as the inability of employees to quickly access such first-aid kits, if necessary, can be regarded as a violation of labor legislation with all the ensuing consequences for the employer.
Note also that negative consequences for the health of employees, caused by the inability to provide first aid for the reasons specified in the previous paragraph, may entail not only administrative, but also criminal liability of the employer.
Ensuring labor safety.
(based on the materials of the magazine
"Labor protection in questions and answers" No. 10 for 2015)
According to Art. 223 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation and the order of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia of 01.01.2001 N ° 169n, the employer must have a first-aid kit for first aid.
For these purposes, the organization shall appoint a person responsible for the maintenance of the first aid kit and the provision of first aid. Please answer the following questions.
1. Obviously, to work with a first-aid kit, an employee must have professional medical training.
Can the relevant functions be assigned to an employee only on the basis that he has completed training in the course "Labor Protection", or is some other special training needed?
2. What amount of medical care the employee is obliged to provide under Art. 223 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation? Are there regulations regulating this issue?
3. Are there currently mandatory requirements for indicating the location of the first aid kit (green cross, etc.)?
4. Is the location of the first aid kit indicated in the evacuation plan? In connection with the purchase of a first aid kit, is the evacuation plan subject to revision to indicate the presence of a first aid kit?
5. Is the lack of a first aid kit a violation of fire safety requirements? Do employees of the State Fire Supervision Service have the right to check the presence of a first-aid kit and local acts that determine the procedure for working with a first-aid kit?
Labor protection specialist.
1. Training of the employee in charge of the first aid kit.
The organization must appoint a person whose responsibilities will include the purchase of a first aid kit, its storage and the use of first aid equipment. For this, the head of the organization should issue a corresponding order.
Such functions can be assigned to an employee who has received training in labor protection , there is no need for special training.
2. The volume of medical care provided.
Render first medical assistance must a person
having medical education ... If an incident occurs at work, the victim needs to urgently call specialists, and before that, provide him with comfortable conditions.
In addition, it is unacceptable to dispense medicines to a sick or injured person at your own peril and risk and without the recommendation of a medical professional - a simple pill can, for example, cause allergic reaction.
None of the employees of the organization, while providing first aid, has the right to use any medicines.
3. Placement of the first aid kit.
Currently, the rules governing the location of first-aid kits have not been established.
It has only been determined that the employer is obliged to create sanitary posts with first aid kits for first aid.
Accordingly, the employer should equip sanitary posts with first aid kits in such a way that workers, if necessary, can have quick access to first aid kits for first aid.
At the same time, on the walls, on the doors of the premises where the first aid kits are located, there must be a first aid kit sign - a white cross on a green background (table I.2 GOST R 12.4.026-2001 "SSBT. Signal colors, safety signs and signal markings. and application rules. technical requirements and characteristics. Test methods ", approved. by the resolution of the State Standard of Russia -st; hereinafter - GOST R 12.4.026-2001).
4. First aid kit on the evacuation plan.
Requirements for the manufacture and approval of evacuation plans are determined by GOST R 12.2.143-2009 "Occupational Safety Standards. Photoluminescent evacuation systems. Requirements and control methods ", approved. by order of Rostekhregulirovanie-st (hereinafter - GOST R 12.2.143-2009).
On the evacuation plans are placed, including the indicating elements of the FES, which include safety signs for medical and sanitary purposes in accordance with GOST R 12.4.026.
Accordingly, the location of the first aid kit should be indicated on the evacuation plan.
5. First aid kits and fire safety requirements.
State fire inspectors check evacuation plans for compliance with the requirements of GOST R 12.2.143-2009.
The lack of a first aid kit is a violation of Art. 223 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation (hereinafter - the Labor Code of the Russian Federation), and not a violation of fire safety requirements.
At the same time, when checking the compliance of the evacuation plans, the inspector may also check the presence of a first aid kit at the location shown on the evacuation plan.
