Bleeding Control Kits & Stations

Education Code §38.030 (HB 496) requires every Texas public and charter campus to maintain a bleeding control station stocked with a kit containing tourniquets with a locking mechanism, chest seals and patient care cards in quantities to treat eight or five injured people (or quantities set by the superintendent), plus latex-free gloves, space emergency blankets, hemostatic gauze dressings, permanent markers, trauma shears, compression bandages, a hard-shell case and an emergency alerting device.

In an easily accessible, visible location chosen by your safety committee — the statute expressly allows stations where AEDs are stored, and co-locating bleeding control with the AED cabinet puts both life-safety stations on the same wall. Gyms, cafeterias, front offices, athletic facilities and shop areas are the common placements.

The tiers describe the contents, not the quality: Standard kits cover the core statutory items, Intermediate kits add upgraded components such as premium dressings and tourniquet options, and Premium kits add hemostatic dressings such as QuikClot or NuStat and expanded quantities. Choose the tier that matches your written protocol and the number of people the station must treat.

Yes — districts standardizing stations across campuses and facilities outfitting multiple buildings can request an institutional quote covering kits, cabinets and restock components in one order. Purchase orders are accepted on approved accounts.

Stations should be checked on a regular inspection cycle — many facilities check them alongside their AED cabinets — and any component that has been used or opened, or that has passed its expiration date, should be replaced straight away so the kit stays complete to its standard. The individual tourniquets, dressings, seals and other components in this collection are the restocking supplies for that routine.