Trafalgar Go Anywhere Waterproof First Aid Kit

A kit built around staying dry

Most first aid kits fail quietly. Dressings go soft, adhesive strips stop sticking, the pamphlet turns to pulp — and you find out at the moment you open it. The Go Anywhere is built around a waterproof bag with a snap clip, so it can hang off a pack, live in a kayak hatch or sit in a ute tray and still be sterile when it matters.

That is the whole design brief, and it is why the contents lean towards being away from help rather than being at home with a grazed knee.

47 pieces, grouped by what they are actually for

Where this differs from the Personal kit

Our Trafalgar Personal First Aid Kit advertises 62 pieces against this kit's 47, and that comparison is misleading in this kit's favour. Fifty of the Personal kit's pieces are adhesive strips. This one carries twenty, and spends the difference on capability.

The four items the smaller kit does not have

Four items here do not exist in the Personal kit at all, and each covers a scenario the smaller kit cannot:

• CPR face shield — a barrier for rescue breaths, so a bystander is not choosing between helping and not.
• Emergency thermal blanket — for shock and for cold, which is the risk once someone is immobile outdoors.
• Waterproof matches — a survival item, not a first aid one. It tells you what this kit is really for.
• Scissors, tweezers and splinter probes — cutting tape and clothing, removing splinters and ticks.

Plus an eye pad and a poncho. If your use case is a glovebox and grazed knees, the Personal kit is the cheaper correct answer. If it is a trail, a boat or a worksite an hour from a hospital, this is.

Where it earns its place

Away from a vehicle

• Hiking and camping — clipped to the outside of a pack where it is reachable without unpacking.
• Boats, kayaks and fishing — the one environment where a non-waterproof kit is guaranteed to fail.
• Cycling and motorbikes — small enough for a pannier or under a seat.
• Four-wheel driving and touring — alongside, not instead of, a larger vehicle kit.
• Outdoor work — fencing, landscaping, surveying, anywhere the vehicle is a walk away.

One kit, or two?

A common and sensible setup is both: the compact Personal kit in the day bag for the cuts and blisters that happen constantly, and this one staying with the vehicle or the main pack for the things that happen rarely and matter more. They are not competing products so much as different distances from help.

If you only buy one and you spend time outdoors, buy this one. The Personal kit cannot do CPR, cannot treat shock and cannot survive a wet day; this kit can still handle a blister.

What Healthdirect says about being prepared

Healthdirect defines first aid as the steps you take in the first minutes of an illness or injury until further help arrives — and that phrase is the argument for this kit specifically. The further away you are, the longer those first minutes last.

Its advice is to put a kit together for home and the car, and to consider doing a first aid course. The course matters more than the contents: a CPR face shield is only useful to someone who knows the DRSABCD sequence — Danger, Response, Send for help, Airway, Breathing, CPR, Defibrillation — and a thermal blanket is only useful to someone who recognises shock.

One thing worth planning before you go: Healthdirect's instruction at step S is to call triple zero (000) and stay on the line. Know where your phone has coverage on the route you are taking, and tell someone your plan if it does not.

Keeping it serviceable

Check it twice a year

Tie it to something you already do — the start of a season, a vehicle service. Open the bag, replace anything used or out of date, and reseal it. Strips lose their stick, wipes dry out in the sachet, and latex gloves perish and tear as you pull them on.

The items people forget to check

The thermal blanket is a single-use foil sheet: once it has been opened and refolded it will never go back in neatly, so replace it rather than repack it. The waterproof matches are only waterproof while the container is sealed. And the waterproof bag is the kit — if its seal or seam is damaged, everything inside is on borrowed time, so check the closure, not just the contents.

What no first aid kit can tell a responder

A kit treats the injury in front of someone. It says nothing about the patient.

If the injured person has a serious allergy, takes an anticoagulant, has epilepsy or diabetes or carries an implanted device, that changes what should happen next — and if they are unconscious, nothing in the bag will say so. That is the gap a medical alert bracelet fills, and checking wrists and neck for identification is part of a standard primary survey, as we explain in do paramedics check medical ID.

For detail that will not fit on a wrist, an emergency information wallet card lives well in the same bag — see wallet cards. If someone in the group is at risk of anaphylaxis, our anaphylaxis ID guide covers how the band, the action plan and the autoinjector work together. The wider range is under accessories.

Buying several

These are commonly bought per vehicle, per boat or per crew member. Tell us how many and we will come back with pricing and a date.

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