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INTRODUCTION: First aid training is the value of both preventing, treating sudden illness and accidental injury and in caring for large number of persons caught in a natural disaster. Injuries are a major but neglected public health challenge that requires concerted efforts for effective and sustainable prevention OBJECTIVE: To determine the effect of health teaching on knowledge and practices regarding first aid of selected minor ailments among industrial workers of selected area. METHOD AMD MATERIAL Quantitative research approach was used.The design selected for the study was pre-experimental one group pre-test, post-test design. The sample comprises of 60 industrial workers .Structure Questionnaire was used to assess Knowledge and Checklist to assess Practice, Reliability was assessed by test -retest method. Correlation Coefficients was found to be 0.81 for Knowledge Section and inter,rater method used for practice and Cohens Kappa was found 0.83 for practices section. RESULT: In this study, 30% of the industrial workers had poor knowledge (Score 0-6), 23.3% of them had average knowledge (Score 7-13) and 46.7% of them had good knowledge (Score 14-20) regarding first aid of selected minor ailments. Average knowledge score in pretest was 11.7 which increased to 19.9 in post-test. T-value for this test is 12.21 with 59 degrees of freedom .Average practices score in pretest was 20 which increased to 39.9 in post-test. T-value for this test is 14.45 with 59 degrees of freedom.Since p-values corresponding to occupation and income are small (less than 0.05), the demographic variables occupation and income were found to have significant association with the knowledge among industrial workers regarding first aid of selected minor ailments. Since all the p-values are large (greater than 0.05), none of the demographic variables were found to have significant association with the practices regarding first aid of selected minor ailments among industrial workers CONCLUSION: This study shows that there is effect of health teaching on knowledge and practice regarding minor ailments and there is association between occupation and income with knowledge and practices.