Your first aid kit should be accessible and portable. You want it to be big enough to carry the basics. A small tackle box makes a good first aid kit, or it can be as simple as a carry bag with a zip. Consider the type of First Aid Kit you want to build and where you will place it.

1. Where to Keep a First Aid Kit
2. Cleaning , Dressings and Bandages
3. Instruments And Equipment

Where to Keep a First Aid Kit

The Home First Aid kit needs to be in a central location accessible to all especially easy to reach in an emergency. You must also have a first aid kit in every car in the household.
A good location for the first aid kit in the home is the Bathroom and or the Kitchen other locations include:-

• bathroom cabinets
• kitchen cabinets
• car (glove compartment is most accessible)
• boat
• workshop
• garage
• playground
• classroom
• church

A First Aid Guide for both indoor and outdoor use.

We highly recommend that all drivers have basic first aid skills /training. This training is also vital in the home and parents as well as domestic staff looking after children should also be trained. Carry along a written First Aid Guide in cases where you may need more information.

I. Cleaning , Dressings and Bandages:

• A pair of latex gloves. Many diseases are transmitted by touching bodily fluids such as blood and urine.
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Gloves, disposable non-latex
• Band Aids. The most common injuries that you will treat are small cuts and scrapes. However keep assorted sizes.
• straight adhesive Band Aids
• Butterfly (knuckle) Band Aids
• Bandages :
• Gauze Roller bandages - absorbent, breathable, and often elastic
• Elastic bandages - used for sprains, and pressure bandages
• Adhesive, elastic roller bandages - Very effective pressure bandages or durable, waterproof bandaging
• Triangular bandages - used as slings, tourniquets, to tie splints, and many other uses
• Dressings :-
• Pads
• Sterile eye pads
• Sterile gauze pads
• Sterile non adherent pads
• Burn dressing (sterile pad soaked in a cooling gel)
• Occlussive dressing (airtight dressing, can be used to treat a 'sucking chest wound', in which air is sucked into the chest cavity, collapsing the lung (pneumothorax). For this use, occlussive dressings should be taped on 3 sides only, to create a 'one-way valve')
• petroleum gauze (also used as non-adherent dressing)
• Half of any gauze wrapper can be used, since the inside is sterile and air-tight
• Swabs, sterile non-woven, four inch sterile gauze bandages for those slightly larger cuts and bloody noses. Cotton roll/Cotton Swabs for sterile dressing for holding bandages on the bigger lacerations and abrasions and to put direct pressure on wounds to stop the bleeding. Cotton swabs can also be used to get particles out of the eye, ear and to apply ointment.   
• One roll of waterproof adhesive tape for taping bandages, and minor splitting like broken fingers.
• Salt – can also be used to sterilize a wound and dissolved in clean water to make an eye wash
• Soap – to clean hands or other areas

II. Instruments And Equipment:

• If you are CPR certified , CPR face shield or other breathing barrier ,will also help to prevent you from coming in contact with the injured party's bodily fluids and will help prevent catching disease.
• Goggles to prevent fluids and other objects from getting into eyes
• Eye cup or small plastic cup to drink water
• Thermometer ( a must for infants and children) to check body temperature
• Flashlight (torch) and or Penlight – (a must in any vehicle) in case someone is hurt in the dark or in a power outage situation. It would be wise to check the batteries frequently in the flashlight.
• Cold packs for bumps on the head, sprains, and heat exhaustion.
• Rescue Blanket; the reflective kind, that can also be used for keeping someone warm, keeping them cool, or signaling aircraft or someone using binoculars in the event of a natural disaster
• Trauma Shears/ a pair of blunt scissors  for cutting bandages, and removing clothing if needed and other general uses.
• Tweezers for removing those splinters.
• Irrigation syringe, for cleaning wounds
• rubber suction bulb, for clearing the airway of an unconscious patient
• Sawyer extractor if treating snakebites is a concern. This is the only snakebite kit generally recognised as not causing further damage and possibly reducing the effects of a snake bite.
• Splint(s)
• SAM Splint - Versatile splint made of malleable aluminum covered with foam
• Air splints - Easy to apply, can also help control bleeding, but bulkier and more expensive
• Wire ladder splint
• Instant-acting chemical cold and hot packs
• Sterile eye wash (commonly saline)
• commercial sterile saline may also be used for cleaning wounds where clean tap water is not available.
• Eye wash to flush out an eye if water is not readily available.
• (lightweight plastic foil blanket, sometimes called "emergency blanket")
• Thermometer to check for body temperature , especially important when providing first aid to infants.
• Plastic Zip-Lock bags for a variety of purposes, including cleaning up hazardous material or storing cut-off fingers, etc.
• Tongue blades
• Paper & pencil
• Paper drinking cups  - for drinking water and or medication
• Ice bag
• Safety pins to hold bandages
• Needles
• Matches – in the event that you are required to light a fire to act as a signal or for keeping warm
• Hot-water bottle – to help keep warm
• Battery-operated radio and extra batteries

III. Medication

• Activated Charcoal or Ipecac syrup (or its equivalent- refer to your Pharmacist)  for ingesting poisonous substances.
• Sugar or glucose solution for energy
• Antacid – for stomach acidity and upsets
• Insect repellent
• Meat tenderizer (for insect bites)
• Baking soda
• Calamine lotion – for skin irritation
• Ammonia/Smelling Salts inhalants for fainting.
• Hydrogen Peroxide /Iodine for cleaning cuts and bruises
• Disinfectant or Disinfectant wipes to clean yourself after you’ve treated someone’s wounds.