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Personal Protective Equipment
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Protecting Employees from Workplace Hazards
Employers must protect employees from hazards such as falling objects, harmful substances, and noise exposures that can cause injury
Employers must:
Use all feasible engineering and work practice controls to eliminate and reduce hazards
Use personal protective equipment (PPE) if the controls don’t eliminate the hazards.
PPE is the last level of control!
Engineering Controls
If . . .
The work environment can be physically changed to prevent employee exposure to the potential hazard,
Then . . .
The hazard can be eliminated with an engineering control
Engineering Controls
Initial design specifications
Substitute less harmful material
Change process
Enclose process
Isolate process
PPE Program
Includes procedures for selecting, providing and using PPE
First -- assess the workplace to determine if hazards are present, or are likely to be present, which necessitate the use of PPE
After selecting PPE, provide training to employees who are required to use it
Training
Why it is necessary
How it will protect them
What are its limitations
When and how to wear
How to identify signs of wear
How to clean and disinfect
What is its useful life & how is it disposed
Selecting the Right Hard Hat
Class A
General service (building construction, shipbuilding, lumbering)
Good impact protection but limited voltage protection
Class B
Electrical / Utility work
Protects against falling objects and high-voltage shock and burns
Class C
Designed for comfort, offers limited protection
Protects against bumps from fixed objects, but does not protect against falling objects or electrical shock
When must Eye Protection be Provided?
When any of these hazards are present:
Dust and other flying particles, such as metal shavings or sawdust
Corrosive gases, vapors, and liquids
Molten metal that may splash
Potentially infectious materials such as blood or hazardous liquid chemicals that may splash
Intense light from welding and lasers
Safety Shoes
Impact-resistant toes and heat-resistant soles protect against hot surfaces common in roofing and paving
Some have metal insoles to protect against puncture wounds
May be electrically conductive for use in explosive atmospheres, or nonconductive to protect from workplace electrical hazards
Summary
Assess the workplace for hazards
Use engineering and work practice controls to eliminate or reduce hazards before using PPE
Select appropriate PPE to protect employees from hazards that cannot be eliminated
Inform employees why the PPE is necessary, how and when it must be worn
Train employees how to use and care for their PPE, including how to recognize deterioration and failure
Require employees to wear selected PPE