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Requirements March 1931 until September 1935

1. Tell what to do with an apparently drowned person, and demonstrate the prone pressure method of artificial respiration.

2. Show how to apply bandages to the head, ankle, and hand.

3. Show how to apply a tourniquet to stop arterial hemorrhage at any point:

(a) on the upper extremity below armpit;
(b) on lower extremity below hip joint.

4. Demonstrate how to arrest venous hemorrhage on any part of the body.

5. Show how to apply a gauze dressing to a wound so that it will not be contaminated - that is, do it in an aseptic manner.

6. Show how to support by splints, etc., a broken arm or a broken leg so that the patient can bear transportation.

7. Explain what to do for the bite of a mad dog, a venomous snake, a mosquito, and a scorpion sting.

8. Show how to rescue an individual from contact with an electric wire.

9. Produce satisfactory evidence that he has taken advantage of every opportunity to put into actual practice his knowledge of first-aid work during a period of at least six months since becoming a first class scout. (Badge-green cross on red ground.)

Requirements December 1942 until April 1950

1. Review Second and First Class First Air Requirements, including demonstrations.

2. Show correct way to: (a) prepare for transporting a person with a compound fracture of the forearm; (b) make and apply splint for broken thigh.

3. Show how to: (a) stop bleeding from a ruptured varicose vein in leg; (b) control arterial bleeding on wrist and calf of leg simultaneously.

4. Explain what to do in the case of a man grasping, or otherwise in contact with an electric wire, or lying across the power rail of an electric railway.

5. Tell briefly what to do for a man found in a starving condition.

6. Show what to do in the case of a person who chokes from drawing water or food into his windpipe while eating.

7. Demonstrate with a small piece of cloth how he would sterilize and make safe a part of his shirt if he had to use it for an improvised dressing.

8. Tell what fatal disease germ is likely to be carried into a wound from a gun shot, knife thrust, rusty nail, pitchfork or garden rake, or from a powder burn; why the patient in every case must be taken to the doctor for a supplementary treatment.

9. Tell the dangers involved in the immediate transportation of an injured person where the extent of the injury is not known.

10. Explain what he would do if a companion dived into shallow water, and struck his head, staggered ashore and fell unconscious

11. Show treatment for extreme shock, using cover, correct position and heating devices.

*Available to Second Class Scouts who have met First Class First Aid Requirements, in addition to the five Badges allowed.