ColinR
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The recent scuttlebut thread listed lots of useful items to have in a first aid kit but can anyone suggest where to buy a comprehensive one without having to get all the items individually?
Buying a first aid kit
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Evadne
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Your local chandlery? If you want to pay less try one of the companies that sells them to factories and ships, try google on "first aid kits" and look at the right hand column.
gwennols
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in my experience you are better to make up a kit yourself
as you are given to many things that are not needed and the price charged is far to expensive and not always comprehensive enough
as you are given to many things that are not needed and the price charged is far to expensive and not always comprehensive enough
Talbot
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There is one very comprehensive kit available, that has suppplementary extras for different requirements. I am sure they will be at the show, and are frequently advertised in the mags - but they are expensive.
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Guest
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Basically most are designed around car use ......
I have a nurse as SWMBO .... so basically a bog std Boots job + an ice-cream container with other bits that SHE reckons should be there ................
I have a nurse as SWMBO .... so basically a bog std Boots job + an ice-cream container with other bits that SHE reckons should be there ................
wooslehunter
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No-one specifies or puts in one of the most useful things - clingfilm.
Can be used to protect burns, waterproof dressings and strap up just about everything.
Can be used to protect burns, waterproof dressings and strap up just about everything.
martinwoolwich
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Re: A suggestion
Try here or visit them at London boat show on stand 1303. They have a kit called crew medic which really impressed me. They have three types which are based on the first aid needs, specifically for boating, dependant on how far away (in time) you are from help. I visited their stand yesterday.
It's a bit expensive if you take it with their special waterproof, specially sealed box but it does get cheaper if you get one of their systems that use different packaging.
I have no connection at all with the company but was very impressed with the product - notwithstanding cost
Try here or visit them at London boat show on stand 1303. They have a kit called crew medic which really impressed me. They have three types which are based on the first aid needs, specifically for boating, dependant on how far away (in time) you are from help. I visited their stand yesterday.
It's a bit expensive if you take it with their special waterproof, specially sealed box but it does get cheaper if you get one of their systems that use different packaging.
I have no connection at all with the company but was very impressed with the product - notwithstanding cost
Katouf
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My helpful surveyor specified a 'First Aid Kit complying with the Health & Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1990 or the European Directive 92/29' He then appended the words that the kit 'should contain the minimum contents suggested by the RYA'.
At the Boat Show yesterday, the RYA stand sold me a copy of their Boat Safety Handbook (Publication C8/02 @ £4.95) which gives a suggested minimum on page 41. This list is itself compiled from the DoT Code of Practice for Leisure Craft!
Nigel's suggestion of shopping at Boots is by far the best option.
At the Boat Show yesterday, the RYA stand sold me a copy of their Boat Safety Handbook (Publication C8/02 @ £4.95) which gives a suggested minimum on page 41. This list is itself compiled from the DoT Code of Practice for Leisure Craft!
Nigel's suggestion of shopping at Boots is by far the best option.
boatmike
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Totally agree. Most prepared kits are way overpriced for what is in them and you can put a better kit together yourself. Use the money you save to put yourself on a first aid course. You will get a better return on your money and it's quite good fun (apart fom kissing rubber dummies that is!)
Evadne
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True enough, but if you can't be bothered to read the RYA booklet or any of the other books you'd have looked at on a basic course such as day skipper, then a good ready-made kit from the chandlery or St John's ambulance will have most of what you couldn't do without in an emergency i.e. wound dressings, sticking plasters, elastoplast bandages and triangular bandages. Things like eye wash, stick-on "sutures" and ibuprofen can be added once you learn how and when to use them.
npf1
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Have a look at Medical Sea Pak. Their Coastal Kit in a Pelican case seems very comprehensive and can be bought for around $330 ish. Will work out about about GBP230-250 by the time it's over here and got some VAT on it.
Shakey
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Be careful about sticking things like Ibuprofen in a first aid kit.
It is a drug, and by giving it to someone you are actually 'prescribing' it.
Best bet is to leave it out of the box and put it somewhere where crew can help themselves.
That said, if you have a chat with a friendly pharmacist and say that you're stocking a boat first aid kit they may sell you some prescription only drugs (such as a general penicillin or stronger painkillers) without a prescription. It is my understanding they are allowed to do this under certain circumstances, and being a long way offshore is one of these circumstances.
It is a drug, and by giving it to someone you are actually 'prescribing' it.
Best bet is to leave it out of the box and put it somewhere where crew can help themselves.
That said, if you have a chat with a friendly pharmacist and say that you're stocking a boat first aid kit they may sell you some prescription only drugs (such as a general penicillin or stronger painkillers) without a prescription. It is my understanding they are allowed to do this under certain circumstances, and being a long way offshore is one of these circumstances.
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Anonymous
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Taking a course is far and away the most important thing and after the course you will be in a better position to judge for yourself.
Joe_Cole
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I noticed yesterday that Screwfix has got some kits in their catalogue. Probably won't be "all singing all dancing" but will be reasonable value.
Dave99
Member
If you do the RYA First aid course you can get an endorsement allowing you to officially administer class c drugs - which includes ibuprofen etc!!!!
