Free NOLS 4.0 first aid kits are available to field research groups that complete a Field Safety Plan, while supplies last. Please email fieldsafety@berkeley.edu for more information.
Additional First Aid kits are also available at the NOLS Store. 20% educational discount available at the NOLS Store when you provide your .edu email address.
Other items suggested by various field researchers and staff:
- Extra disposable gloves
- Superglue
- Glowstick
- Earplugs
- Epinephrine auto-injector (prescription required, e.g. Epipen)
- Tick Remover (pointed tweezers are included in the NOLS 4.0 kit but the Pro-Tick Remedy has also been recommended)
- Field eyewash for dust, irritants (e.g. Ocufresh)
- Tecnu outdoor skin cleanser (for poison oak)
- Sunscreen
- Oral rehydration salts
- Lightweight Sam splint (also available via the NOLS store*)
- Insect repellent
- Lightweight emergency blanket (e.g. SOL from Adventure Medical Kits)
- Extra moleskin for blisters and hot spots
- Extra Povidone-iodine or Benzoin tinctures for wounds
- Quikclot (also available via Adventure Medical Kits)
Learn more about Field Safety.