A standard first aid kit is not designed to stop a life-threatening bleed. This one is. The Major Bleed First Aid Kit is used alongside your existing workplace kit — not instead of it — to give your site the capability to respond to traumatic blood loss before an ambulance arrives.

Uncontrolled bleeding from a limb is one of the leading preventable causes of workplace death in Australia. Most standard WHS kits carry no tourniquet and no wound packing gauze. This kit has both.

• Built for high-risk worksites where traumatic amputation, crush injury, or major laceration is a real risk If your workplace risk assessment identifies machinery, cutting tools, height work, or vehicles as hazards — a standard compliance kit is not enough on its own. Read our construction first aid kit guide to understand when a standard kit stops being sufficient and a bleed control kit becomes necessary.
• One commercially prepared tourniquet plus supplies to create four improvised tourniquets Apply as high on the limb as possible, note the time, and do not remove until emergency services arrive. Response time in a major bleed scenario is the difference between survival and death — having the right equipment within arm's reach on site is what this kit exists for.
• Wound packing gauze and large sterile combine dressing — not just bandages During our own research we found many products claiming to be bleed kits that contained neither a tourniquet nor wound packing equipment. Wound packing gauze is used for deep wounds and cavities where direct pressure alone cannot control bleeding. Read our guide on what a major bleed module should actually contain before you buy anywhere else.
• Packed and inspected by hand in Dubbo, NSW — weather-resistant bag, 36 x 18 x 12cm, 1.3kg Compact enough to carry, built to be opened under pressure. Every item checked before it leaves the workshop. Check this kit after every use and at minimum every 12 months — read our kit maintenance guide for the correct WHS audit and restock process.