FIRST AID EQUIPMENT AND TRAINING
APPLIES TO:
ALL DOCUMENTED COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSELS OPERATING
BEYOND THE BOUNDARY LINE OR WITH MORE THAN 16 POB ANYWHERE
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REQUIREMENTS:
-First Aid Manual
-Medicine Chest
-Effective after Sept 1 1993
Persons Certified*
First Aid
CPR
More than 2 POB .....................1
1
More than 16 POB.....................2
2
More than 49 POB.....................4
4
An individual certified in both first aid and CPR may be
NOTE:
counted against both requirements.
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STANDARD:
*A certificate indicating completion of:
-Acceptable First Aid courses:
-American National Red Cross
-Coast Guard approved course
-Acceptable CPR certificates:
-American National Red Cross
-American Heart Association
-Coast Guard approved course (includes OCMI approved courses)
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INSTRUCTORS NOTES:
-First Aid Manual and medicine chest must be of an appropriate size
suitable for the number of persons on board, area of operations,
and must be readily accessible.
-Suggested items are found in the Public Health publication "Ship's
Medicine Chest".
-NO vessel has a specific requirement for what constitutes a
"suitable" size medicine chest.
-This is a judgment call.
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REFERENCES: 46 CFR 28.2lO
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