Recommended contents of a first aid kit
- Protective disposable gloves (two pairs minimum, consider hypoallergenic)
- Resusci face shield or pocket mask for rescue breathing
- Hypoallergenic plasters
- Rescue-type scissors
- Tweezers
- Tape in a variety of sizes (elastic and zinc oxide)
- Gauze swabs (sterile and non-sterile)
- Ice packs (or access to ice on the day)
- Crepe bandages (individually wrapped so sterile)
- Triangular bandages (individually wrapped so sterile)
- Sterile trauma-type clean dressings in a variety of sizes
- Packet of sugar or full sugar jam
- Sterile water pods to clean wounds or irrigate eyes
- Sterile eye pads or suitable dressing
- Tourniquet
- Haemostatic dressings
- Burns dressings
- Foil space blankets or (preferably) ambulance-type blankets to keep injured players warm
- Automated External Defibrillator
- Yellow clinical waste bags (or similar) to dispose of soiled dressings and plasters (following local authority guidance)
- Mobile phone
- Printed directions to the nearest emergency department for any player (home or away) that requires transfer to hospital
- Postcode or what3words of and directions to your venue
- Copy of player medical record form (including players previous medical history and medication, where relevant)
- Signed consent form from parents, if player is U18
- Spare copies of your injury report form
- Paper and pen/pencil