Many medical supply companies have been selling little kits for business owners, which contain first aide stuff for years. They go in a scare the ever living crap out of the business owner and tell them of the fines that might occur if they do not have such stuff on the property, then they up sell the poor business owner. Poor small businessperson does not know any better and so they buy whatever they tell them too, do not get me wrong the fines are in fact real but many kits are in excess of $200.00.

Sometimes they come to franchisors like me and try that scare tactic garbage and then tell me they can have my logos put on the wall size first aide kits, thus relieving them of any responsibility of what the kit contains. Great we end up over paying and then still liable for what ever crap they sold us on. What a racket I tell ya. You should see their catalogs and their aggressive sales teams, they must be hurting very bad lately or they only make commissions. Some one ought to do a story on these guys. Like 60 minutes, and listen to the line of bull crap they give to the unknowing businessperson. Then have an actual inspector from OSHA tell us how much of this stuff is reality and how much is simply BS used to get us to upgrade and buy more gauze tape at $6.00 per roll.

I am all for safety, but I am tired of having so many companies lobby for more laws and then exploit the efficiencies of business and increase costs simply to make a buck. All this eventually puts the business out of business and it always gets passed on to the consumer. Think on this.

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