Employers must maintain proper first aid records and documents. As an employer, you're also responsible for determining who can access them.

Your responsibility involves:

• Maintaining a record of all reported or treated injuries and exposures that take place at your workplace.
• Keeping records and documents for at least three years.
• Limiting access to records and documents only to those with a need to review the records.

For more details on acceptable record-keeping and access, see OHS Guidelines 3.19.

Other first aid forms and records

As an employer, you should have copies of the following forms and documents available at your workplace:

• Employer's Report of Injury or Occupational Disease (form 7)
• Occupational First Aid Patient Assessment
• First Aid Record
• Worker handouts for at-home and return-to-work minor wound care