BS8599-1 First Aid Kit Refills

The BSi (British Standard Institute) have recently published the new BS8559-1 British Standard Workplace First Aid kits on 30th June 2011 and are allowing up until the 31st of December 2011 for business to conform to the new guidelines. The current BHTA-HSE kits which were first introduced in 1997 based on the HSE guidelines are now seen as outdated and inadequate due to changes in first aid protocol and therefore the new guidelines aim to improve upon this providing a more effective first aid guide. This BHTA standard is now set to be withdrawn on 31st December with the introduction of the new BS8599-1 standard.