reference for personal protective equipment for welding

1. (Personal Protective Equipment)

3.  PPE is a suit that is worn to protect you from
the threat of being hurt.
 PPE does not completely eliminate the threat
of being harmed, instead, it only reduces it to
an acceptable level.
 Since we will weld, I am discussing more on
Welding PPE.

4.  Electric shock – you can get
electrocuted if you are not careful
while welding. You can get
electrocuted by accidentally touching
live exposed wires.

5.  You can get burns by accidentally
touching hot slags, or by making
contact with hot surfaces.

6.  You may experience suffocation if
you are not wearing a respirator.
Inhaling fumes and/or oxides may
result in suffocation.

7. Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a suit
designed to protect the wearer's body from
injury or infection. The hazards addressed by
protective equipment include physical,
electrical, heat, chemicals, biohazards, and
airborne particulate matters.

10. The purpose of the personal
protective equipment is to reduce
the employee’s exposure to hazards
when engineering controls and
administrative controls are not
effective to reduce these risks to
acceptable levels.

11. When do we use PPE?

14. Personal protective equipment ranks last on
the hierarchy of controls, as the workers are
regularly exposed to the hazard, with a
barrier of protection. The hierarchy of
controls is important in acknowledging that,
while personal protective equipment has
tremendous utility, it is not the desired
mechanism of control in terms of worker
safety.

35.  A PPE is designed to reduce the risk of
getting harmed into acceptable levels. It does
not completely eliminate the threat of being
harmed. Even if you are wearing a PPE, you
also must be careful because you may be
harmed if the equipment isn’t used properly.

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