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Inventory 00Five items, five sheets

First aid supplies, item by item

What a workplace first aid kit has to be, how often it should be checked, and what a defibrillator is, how one is used and where one should hang. Each item is numbered, the way a line on an inspector’s checklist is, and each rule is set out as the code or the health service that wrote it.

A guide published by Dotto from the official sources listed at the foot of each page: Safe Work Australia’s model Code of Practice and the state codes, healthdirect, NSW Health, SA Health, and the ambulance services of Victoria and Queensland.

General information, not medical or legal advice. In an emergency, call Triple Zero (000). For first aid, check healthdirect; for a workplace kit, read the model Code of Practice and your own state’s code.

The plate

One case, taken apart

A first aid case and a defibrillator, drawn taken apart An exploded line drawing. In the middle, a case with its lid lifted above it and an empty tray between; the lid has a blank panel where a marking would go. A ruled check card hangs from the case. To the right, a defibrillator with a handle and a round button, with two pads on leads below it. To the left, a wall cabinet holding a defibrillator under a sign reading AED. Numbers 01 to 05 point to each part. AED 01 02 03 04 05
A drawing of the five things these sheets cover, each numbered to its sheet. It is a diagram, not a product, and the case is drawn empty: the official example of a kit’s contents is in the model Code of Practice itself.

The ledger

What each number stands for

Each row is one sheet. Every rule on a sheet is credited to the body that wrote it.
No.ItemWhat its sheet answers
01The case: what goes in a workplace kitAll workers must be able to get to a first aid kit, so every workplace needs at least one. The sheet covers where kits go, how they are marked, and the medicines the model Code leaves out.
02The check card: keeping a kit in orderWho looks after a kit and how often it is checked. Tasmania’s adopted code says after each use or at least once every 12 months; Victoria’s compliance code says quarterly and after every event requiring first aid.
03The defibrillator: what an AED isWhat an AED does and who may use one. In NSW Health’s words, “Anyone can use a defibrillator”.
04The pads: using a defibrillatorhealthdirect’s steps for using an AED, retold in order, after the call to Triple Zero (000) and the start of CPR.
05The wall cabinet: AEDs in public placesRegisters, mounting heights and signs, and South Australia’s law requiring AEDs in certain public buildings from 1 January 2026.

Conventions

Three habits of these sheets

  1. Each rule keeps its own state. Safe Work Australia’s model Code of Practice is approved under section 274 of the Work Health and Safety Act, while Victoria’s compliance code gives guidance under a different law, the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004. The codes do not always agree on detail, so where a sheet quotes Tasmania’s code, it says Tasmania.

  2. Kit contents are summarised, not copied. The model Code says kits can be any size, shape or type to suit the workplace, though each should be immediately identifiable by the marking the code describes. Its example list of contents stays in the code, linked from the kit sheets.

  3. A procedure appears whole or not at all. The one set of first aid steps here, healthdirect’s for using an AED, is retold in plain words, in order, with nothing left out. No product, brand or supplier is named on any sheet.

Emergency number

The one number to keep in sight

healthdirect suggests writing the Triple Zero (000) number by the phone or sticking it to the fridge, both at home and at work. At work, the model Code adds a piece of equipment that is easy to forget: a telephone that can reach emergency services, or an emergency call system, should be part of a workplace’s first aid facilities.

Triple Zero is the number for police, fire or ambulance, and healthdirect says to call it only when the situation is serious and urgent. NSW Health says that if a person is having a heart attack or a cardiac arrest, call Triple Zero (000) immediately for an ambulance.

The five sheets

Read them in any order

  1. 01
    What goes in a workplace kit

    The duty behind the kit, how many and where, the marking, the example list and the medicines it leaves out, and the first aid room.

  2. 02
    Keeping a kit in order

    The nominated person, two codes’ check intervals side by side, keeping the kit findable, and looking after an AED.

  3. 03
    Defibrillators explained

    What an AED does, why minutes count, who can use one, and the rules healthdirect gives for children.

  4. 04
    Using a defibrillator

    Triple Zero and CPR first, then healthdirect’s six steps, and what those steps do not cover.

  5. 05
    Defibrillators in public places

    South Australia’s public access law, the registers in Victoria and Queensland, and where an AED should hang.