Tweezers 7.5cm (1)

Stainless steel first aid tweezers with a spade tip, a broad flat gripping face rather than a fine point, one per pack. Aero Healthcare lists them as the AEROINSTRUMENT Stainless Steel Tweezers 7.5cm, code AF9. The accepted intended purpose is general-purpose pick-up of objects, typically to avoid direct hand contact in unhygienic conditions. They lie flat in a kit pouch, so they suit a vehicle kit or a personal pack.

Key features

• Spade tip, a broad flat face that grips an object across its surface rather than at a point
• 7.5cm long, short enough to lie flat in a kit pouch
• 6g, so it adds almost nothing to a personal pack or vehicle kit
• Stainless steel, from Aero Healthcare's AEROINSTRUMENT surgical instrument range
• One instrument per pack, so a single kit can be topped up without buying a box
• Manufacturer code AF9 for reordering the same instrument

What these tweezers suit

Aero Healthcare positions the AEROINSTRUMENT range for common first aid procedures rather than any single task. In practice that means picking up small objects a gloved hand cannot grip cleanly, without direct hand contact, and picking up a dressing without handling it directly. They sit alongside scissors and forceps as a standard instrument in a stocked kit.

Spade tip or a finer tip

A spade tip is broad and flat rather than fine and pointed. Where the job calls for a finer grip on something small, we stock splinter forceps and single-use splinter probes as separate items.

Common questions

Is it supplied sterile, and can it be reused? Aero does not publish a sterility, single-use or reprocessing statement for AF9, so check the pack labelling before use. If you need an instrument supplied sterile, see our sterile dressing forceps, and check that listing for its supply condition.

These tweezers sit in our medical instruments range. Browse first aid kits if you are putting a kit together from scratch, or first aid kit refills to top up one you already have. Tweezers are also a common inclusion in a pet first aid kit, and our guide to what to include in a first aid kit shows where instruments fit.

Ordering from First Aid Distributions

First Aid Distributions has been family owned and run since 2011, supplying homes, workplaces, schools and clinics across Australia. Online orders dispatch from our Sydney fulfilment centre, and Bendigo customers can collect from the East Bendigo warehouse. If you are building or restocking several kits and want the same instrument set across all of them, call the team on 03 5443 2239.

ALWAYS READ THE LABEL AND FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS FOR USE