You don’t need a badge to be the one who knows where the first aid kit is.

Useful knowledge is available to anybody willing to go and get it, and holding it makes you the person people turn to whatever your position is. Knowing where the kit is, who has the key, how the machine works, none of it was assigned and all of it puts you at the middle of things when they go wrong. Authority is frequently just being the one who knows.

Go and find out one practical thing nobody around you can answer. The first aid kit is a good start, along with who to call and where the switches are. That is available today and requires nobody’s permission.