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Text from the OSHA Logging Standard Text from the OSHA Logging Compliance Directive, CPL 2-1.22

J.  Definitions and clarifications

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3. Paragraph (d)(2) First-aid kits

a. Paragraph (d)(2)(i) - Location of first-aid kits. OSHA has revised the provision of the final rule specifying that first-aid kits must be located at each active landing, and on each employee transport vehicle. First-aid kits also must be readily accessible to each work site where felling, limbing and bucking are being done.

(1) Where one of these cutting worksites is located more than one-half mile, under optimal conditions, from another worksite, landing or employee transport vehicle, a first-aid kit must also be provided at that worksite. In these situations, the first-aid kits which are at the landing, on the vehicle, or at other worksites are too distant to be considered immediately accessible.

(2) Where conditions are not optimal, such as steep or mountainous terrain, very muddy terrain, heavy brush, or snowy and icy conditions, first-aid kits cannot be as far as one-half mile from a cutting area and still be considered immediately accessible. Where such conditions exist or are reasonably anticipated, the employer will have to evaluate their severity in determining whether cutting operations need first-aid kits to be located closer to the worksite.

b. Paragraph (d)(2)(iii) - Review of First-aid kits. OSHA has amended the standard to indicate that annual review and approval of first-aid kits by a health care provider is permitted but not required by the standard. Each first-aid kit must contain at least the items listed in Appendix A of the Logging Standard, which has also been revised, as discussed below.

c. Appendix A to 1910.266 - First-Aid Kit Contents (mandatory) The final rule specifies the minimum contents of first-aid kits that employers must provide. The minimum content list was developed in conjunction with OSHA's offices of occupational medicine and occupational health nursing. The final rule has been revised to delete tourniquets, recordkeeping forms, pens, and diphenhydramine hydrochloride elixir or capsules (i.e., Benadryl) from the mandatory appendix specifying required first-aid contents.

The requirement that each first-aid kit contain blankets was revised to indicate that each kit must, at a minimum, contain at least one blanket. The final rule also requires that each first-aid kit contain a splint. Examples of acceptable splints include wire, inflatable and air splints.

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