First Aid Kits for Company Vehicles and Field Teams in Kenya

A fixed workplace first aid box doesn’t help a driver, a delivery crew or a field maintenance team who spend most of their working day away from it. The Occupational Safety and Health (First Aid in the Workplace) Regulations, 2023 require a “readily accessible” box wherever people are working — for a mobile workforce, that means the box has to travel with them, not wait back at head office.

In short: every company vehicle and field team should carry its own portable first aid box, separate from whatever’s fixed at the main site. Our plastic vehicle/shop/office box is built for exactly this — light enough to keep in a glovebox or a site bag, and stocked the same way as a fixed box for the same headcount logic.

Why a fixed-site box isn’t enough for mobile teams

If your only first aid box is mounted at the depot or office, it’s compliant for the people who work there — and useless for a driver two hours away, or a technician on a client’s site. The regulation’s “readily accessible” requirement doesn’t have an exception for people who aren’t physically at the workplace when the box is; it just means the accessible box has to be wherever they actually are, which for a mobile role is the vehicle or kit bag they carry.

What to carry, and where

Our plastic vehicle/shop/office box is sized for exactly this use — light, not fixed in place, and easy to keep in a glovebox, door pocket or a site bag rather than bolted to anything. For a delivery fleet or field service team, the simplest rule is one box per vehicle, checked alongside whatever other safety equipment already gets a routine check — a warning triangle, a fire extinguisher, a torch — rather than treated as a separate system nobody remembers.

Field teams without a vehicle

Not every mobile role has a vehicle attached — site inspectors, sales reps on foot, or technicians working inside a client’s premises. The same portable box works here too; it just travels in a kit bag or briefcase instead of a glovebox. The point isn’t the vehicle, it’s that the box goes wherever the person’s actual workplace is that day.

Matching contents to headcount, even for one person

A single driver or technician still falls under the 1–9 worker band for contents purposes, so the same small-box contents list applies — it doesn’t need to be scaled down further just because only one person uses it day to day. If a vehicle regularly carries a larger crew, size the box to that crew instead.

Ordering for a fleet

We supply the plastic box with delivery in Nairobi and countrywide, and can quote for a fleet or a whole field team at once rather than one box at a time — useful if you’re equipping several vehicles in one order.

Frequently asked questions

Does a company vehicle need its own first aid kit, or is the office kit enough?

Its own kit. The regulations require a readily accessible box wherever people are working, and a box fixed at the office isn’t accessible to someone who spends their day in a vehicle or on a client site.

What size first aid kit does a single driver need?

The same contents as the 1–9 worker band, even for one person — the band is about the box’s contents list, not literally requiring nine people to be present.

Can a field team without a vehicle still be covered?

Yes — the portable plastic box works just as well carried in a kit bag as it does in a glovebox. What matters is that it travels with the person, not the specific mode of transport.

Should a vehicle’s first aid kit be checked separately from the office kit?

Yes — each box should be checked on its own schedule, ideally alongside other equipment already carried in that vehicle, since a box that’s fine at the office tells you nothing about whether the one in a specific vehicle has been used and not restocked.

This is one part of equipping a mobile workforce properly. See our guides to choosing the right first aid kit size, what’s actually inside a compliant kit, wall-mounted vs portable kits and how often to check and restock one, and first aid cover across multiple sites.

Browse the full first aid kit range in stock now, or get in touch for a fleet-wide quote.