North American Rescue Trauma and First Aid Kit (TFAK) Class A, 80-0947 vs First Aid Only 25 Person ANSI A Plastic First Aid Kit, 91324

The TFAK Class A is the only kit here that clears the Class A minimum fill and then adds the bleeding control gear the standard handles in a separate package, so one bag covers both the cut finger and the arterial bleed. The First Aid Only 25 person kit is the honest baseline: 94 pieces, a printed class, type and edition, and nothing you are paying for twice.

North American Rescue Trauma and First Aid Kit (TFAK) Class A, 80-0947

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The only kit here that clears the Class A list and then adds the trauma items the standard puts in a separate bleeding control package.

• North American Rescue states the kit exceeds ANSI/ISEA Z308.1-2021 for Class A and that it exceeds the ANSI and OSHA standards by adding bleeding control elements, and the bag's printed panel carries the class and part number.
• The published contents include a C-A-T Tourniquet, a HyFin Vent Chest Seal Twin Pack, two compressed gauze rolls, a 4 inch Responder ETD emergency trauma dressing, a SAM Splint and trauma shears, none of which Class A requires.
• It ships with an ANSI A/B inspection card and a Class A contents inventory card, so the maintenance the standard demands has a physical prompt inside the bag.

• The soft zippered nylon bag states no ANSI container Type, so if the kit will get wet you want the hard case version, which North American Rescue says meets a Type IV container.
• North American Rescue publishes no shelf life and no recommended inspection interval for the kit, so the inspection card is a prompt without a schedule attached.
• It is the most expensive kit here by a wide margin, and a good part of that is the tourniquet, chest seal and hemostatic dressing rather than the first aid contents.

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First Aid Only 25 Person ANSI A Plastic First Aid Kit, 91324

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Ninety four pieces that meet the Class A minimum fill, which is the shortest possible argument against buying a kit by its piece count.

• The lid prints ANSI/ISEA Z308.1-2021, Class A, Type III and 25 Person, with a footnote that the case satisfies the requirement for Types I, II and III.
• First Aid Only publishes all 19 content lines with quantities, so you can tick them against the standard's Class A table before you spend anything.
• It carries the items budget kits quietly drop: a CPR face shield, a 1 oz eyewash, two sterile eye pads, a 52 by 84 inch emergency blanket, ten hand sanitizer packets and a triangular bandage.

• Class A requires no tourniquet and no splint, so a serious limb bleed or a suspected fracture is outside what this kit is built for.
• Thirty two adhesive bandages will look thin beside a 300 piece consumer kit, even though it is double the 16 the standard asks for.
• No hemostatic dressing and no pressure dressing, so you would buy a bleeding control package alongside it.

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The bottom line

Our overall pick is the North American Rescue Trauma and First Aid Kit (TFAK) Class A, 80-0947 - The only kit here that clears the Class A list and then adds the trauma items the standard puts in a separate bleeding control package. Choose the First Aid Only 25 Person ANSI A Plastic First Aid Kit, 91324 instead if the default home, office or vehicle kit for someone who wants a verifiable baseline at the lowest sensible outlay and will add bleeding control separately.

Want the full picture, including the other options we compared and the popular one we'd skip? Read the complete The Best First Aid Kits: 4 Compared (and One to Skip).