Hi Lewis, I would recommend against. My argument would be that they are only driving how are they likely to come to harm that would require first aid treatment!? The risk of injury comes when they get to sites and as you have said each site has its own first aid provisions. We don't have them in any of our fleet and if you supply kits you have to train people and keep track of them all (expiry dates, people thieving them!)

My only contribution would be to ask what your risk assessment says..? Are they likely to be at risk from infections as a results of cuts or scrapes to hands?...then perhaps it is justified to enable them to clean and dress minor cuts..

Hi all, Thank you for the responses one of the issues I am looking at is control of these kits if they are issues and subsequent claims that may be made if an incident occurs when administering first aid. I secondly wouldn't accept somebody to be admisinistering first aid to themselves and would be looking in to the route cause of how they became injured when they are sat in a drivers seat and only driving from point A to B. Finally if I issue them to Shunter drivers will they have to be then issued to people who have companies cars and travel between sites for meetings etc. Thanks again for your advice.

Walker In my experience a "shunter" diver is someone who move hgv trailers around a site - so the driver who has been out on the road drops them in a parking area and the shunter driver takes them off to the load/unload area usually a loading dock of some kind. This poster suggest that they move between sites - not a shunter driver to me but there you go.

Lewis, it's all down to your own in-house risk assessment as to whether your drivers should have access to first aid kits. It may be helpful to be aware that others have carried their own assessments and concluded that their vehicles should be so equipped. Quite a few vehicle manufacturers include first aid kits as standard in new vehicles although there's an excellent chance the car I had 10 years ago (and long gone) still has the original kit in place!

I would suggest; Risk Assessment + Accident Book = Answer Do a risk assessment taking in to account the difference in their role is the travel between sites, whilst on site their role is comparable to routine tasks already done. Accident book entries should tell how many times first aid has been accessed on site (I would expect to see entries such as "cut finger whilst between A & B, got plaster from first aid when arrived at B).