How to Choose Your Kit

Select from a variety of items available for customization. Make your team more cohesive by customizing jerseys, pack tracksuits and shorts.

A kit should contain a personal locator beacon, satellite messenger and the tourniquet CAT. It is crucial to carry oral glucose if you are diabetic. Benadryl, an EpiPen and Benadryl for life-threatening allergies are crucial.

What do you want out of your kit?

What kind of equipment to purchase is a tense decision. The first is to consider the trauma or medical risks you're exposed to through the activities you take part in. If you're a hiker, for instance, your kit may include more items that are designed to deal with extreme temperatures or altitude than someone working in an office. Then, pack consider the place you'll put your kit. A variety of quantities of equipment will fit in the form of a purse, backpack or bug-out bag. It's also important to consider the way you'd like your kit to be organized. This will help you or your loved ones find what they need in the middle of a rush. A well-organized emergency kit will help you save time and reduce stress. This is especially true if you organize related items together (e.g. closures and bandages; 4x4 gauze pads and the rolled gauze, SAM splints).

How prepared do you want to be?

It's difficult to predict what you will need in an emergency, so it is best to plan for the most dire. You'll be better prepared in case you need to leave quickly if you have items in your home, office and vehicle. Place these items in a kit that is easy to carry so they are readily available when you need them.

When it comes time to stitch, your answer to this question comes dependent on the kind of experience, final result and goal you'd like to achieve with your project. Do you need a quick and easy project that you can finish in a few hours or do you want to challenge your skills by creating a more difficult design? The most effective kit will provide you with the tools as well as the experience in stitching and the desired final result.

What is your risk assessment?

As a health and safety representative, risk assessments are an important to your job. They should be conducted on all work activities prior to any changes are introduced in particular when products are modified and/or new information regarding the dangers is made available. Plan your assessment and the resources you'll need (e.g. Training, tools, and equipment. Consider the laws or regulations, codes of conduct standards and internal policies you have to adhere to when performing the assessment.

Visit your workplace and take note of the things that could reasonably be expected to cause harm to people - remember to think about long-term health hazards as well as safety risk. Talk to your colleagues who may have noticed something not immediately obvious. They can assist you in identifying potential issues. Data sheets and guidelines from manufacturers can also help you identify hazards and provide context. Make sure to review your records of accidents and illnesses also - they could be very telling as to the kinds of hazards present at work.

Utilize a comparative worksheet to examine and compare different avon kits available on the market. You can also sort them by importance. Once completed, this is an excellent document to refer to in the future. The recording of your findings doesn't have to be a major undertaking however, HSE only requires that companies with five or more staff record their significant findings.