First aid room

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A first aid room is a room in the building of a company in which first aid can be provided or first aid provided by a doctor.

Since the entry into force of the accident prevention regulation DGUV regulation 1 "Principles of Prevention" from 2014 is available in Germany only the single term "first aid room". Alternative names that were used up until then, such as “medical room ” or “ sick room ”, have since become obsolete or have been narrowed down.

Legal bases

The German workplace law and the autonomous law of the accident insurance institutions make requirements for the existence and design of these rooms .

The Workplace Ordinance requires: "First aid rooms or comparable facilities must be available in accordance with the risk of accidents or the number of employees, the type of activities performed and the spatial size of the company." (Section 6 (4) Workplace Ordinance)

This individual standard is further specified in the appendix to the Workplace Ordinance (Section 4.3 there) and a technical rule for workplaces (ASR A4.3 "First Aid Rooms, Means and Facilities for First Aid").

In the autonomous law of the accident insurance institutions, an accident prevention regulation (DGUV regulation 1 “Principles of Prevention”) sets requirements for first aid rooms. It specifies a single standard of the Seventh Book of the Social Security Code (Section 15, Paragraph 1, Number 5, SGB VII).

The addressee of the workplace ordinance is the employer who operates a workplace . The term employer (according to Section 2 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act ) is very broad. The addressee of the accident prevention regulation is the entrepreneur within the meaning of Section 136 (3) SGB VII.

Necessity

The workplace rules and the accident prevention regulations have literally almost identical criteria according to which a first aid room must be available:

  • In companies with more than 1000 employees there .
  • In companies with more than 100 employees, if there are particular accident or health hazards.
  • On construction sites with more than 50 employees.

Regarding the threshold values ​​mentioned, it is important to note that when planning its first aid measures, the employer must take into account not only the employees, but all persons who are usually on the company premises at the same time. This regulation can influence the measures to be planned, for example in companies with a lot of public traffic or in larger school centers.

Instead of a first aid room, a “comparable facility” can also be provided. A “comparable facility” includes, for example, first aid containers, rescue vehicles or doctor's offices . The workplace rule only allows first aid containers for temporary workplaces.

In day-care centers , schools or universities , the entrepreneur must also provide suitable beds or suitable rooms with beds if the above threshold values ​​are not reached. They must meet the criteria that they are suitable for providing first aid to the injured and that they are available in sufficient numbers. (Section 25 (5) DGUV regulation 1)

Structural requirements

The workplace rule sets detailed requirements for the structural design of first aid rooms.

  • Location on the ground floor; easily and steplessly accessible for stretchers ; in the immediate vicinity of a toilet.
  • Size of at least 20 m²; adequate room height, lighting, ventilation and room temperature; Privacy protection against outside view.
  • Floors and walls must be easy to clean and disinfect.
  • Installations:
    • Wash basin with running cold and warm water
    • Telephone or comparable communication device

Equipment requirements

Installation of a first aid container

The workplace rule sets the following requirements for the equipment of first aid rooms:

Depending on the risk assessment

The examples listed here are only a selection of the examples given by the workplace rule.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ http://publikationen.dguv.de/dguv/udt_dguv_main.aspx?FDOCUID=26326
  2. ↑ The DGUV information 202 to 059 "first aid in schools" still used until new edition in September 2017, the term "sick bay". Since then, the term "first aid room" has been used. The DGUV information 204 to 022 "first aid at work" already, that there were 2013 themed (page 58) a change in nomenclature. The new edition from May 2017 only knows the name "first aid room".
  3. ↑ The accident prevention regulation does not speak of companies, but of company locations and not of employees, but of employed insured persons.
  4. ↑ "In doing so [when taking the measures] he [the employer] has to take into account the presence of other people." (Section 10, Paragraph 1, Clause 2 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act) Steffek: "The employer must ascertain the group of people to be included and plan, implement and, if necessary, adapt emergency measures accordingly. Section 10 Paragraph 1 primarily imposes the obligation on the employer to keep the others in the To take into account the people present at the workplace in terms of occupational safety, ie when protecting one's own employees (cf. [...]). However, this means that the existing road safety and third-party protection obligations towards these people are partially substantiated, even if only secondary The measures necessary for this set of duties should be identical anyway. " (Paragraph 5) Marc Steffek, commentary on § 10 ArbSchG, in: Norbert Kollmer, Thomas Klindt, Arbeitsschutzgesetz. Comment. Second edition. Munich: Beck 2011, here: § 10, paragraphs 3 to 5.