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3. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Personal protective equipment is essential for protecting
workers against danger in the workplace.
Many accidents can be avoided by employers providing
proper equipment, and employees using the equipment
at all appropriate times.
4. Employer Responsibility
Employers must protect employees from workplace hazards such
as machines, hazardous substances, and dangerous work
procedures that can cause injury.
Employers must use all feasible engineering and work practice
controls to eliminate and reduce hazard, then use appropriate
personal protective equipment (PPE) if these controls do not
eliminate the hazards.
5. Employer Responsibility
When PPE is required to protect employees, it must be provided
by the employer at no cost to employees, except for specific
items, such as : safety-toe footwear, prescription safety eyewear,
everyday clothing and weather-related gear, and logging boots.
Some examples of PPE includes safety glasses, goggles, face
shield, hard hat, safety shoes, gloves, vests, earplugs or
earmuffs.
6. Employer Responsibility
To establish a PPE program, first assess the workplace to determine
if hazards are present, or are likely to be present, which necessitate
the use of protective equipment.
Once the proper PPE has been selected, the employer must provide
training to each employee who is required to use PPE
7. Employee Responsibility
Employees required to use PPE must be trained to know at least
the following
- When PPE is necessary
- What type of PPE is necessary
- How to properly put on, take off, adjust, and wear any PPE
- Limitation of the PPE
-Proper care, maintenance, and disposal of the equipment
8. Employee Responsibility
Each affected employee must demonstrate an understanding of
the required training, and the ability to use PPE properly, before
being allowed to perform work requiring the use of PPE.
When the employee does not have the required skill and
understanding, retraining is required.
Written certification of completion of training is required.
9. Eye Protection
Employers must provide eye protection for
employees whenever they are exposed to potential
eye injuries during their work.
10. Common causes of eye injuries include :
Dust and other flying particles, such as metal shavings or
sawdust.
Molten metal that might splash.
Acids that might splash.
Blood and other potentially infectious body fluids that might
splash, spray, or splatter.
Intense light such as that created by welding and lasers.
11. Safety Spectacles
Safety spectacles are made with metal or
plastic safety frames.
Most operations require side shields.
Safety spectacles are used for moderate
impact from particles produced by such
jobs as carpentry, woodworking,
grinding, and scaling.
12. Goggles
Goggles protect eyes, eye sockets,
and the facial area immediately
surrounding the eyes from impact,
dust, and splashes.
Some goggles fit over corrective
lenses.
13. Welding Shields
Welding shield protect eyes from
burns caused by infrared or intense
radiant light, and protect face and
eyes from flying sparks or metal
spatter produced during welding,
brazing, soldering, and cutting.
14. Laser Safety Goggles
Laser safety goggles protect eyes from intense
concentrations of light produced by lasers.
15. Face Shields
Face shields protect the face from
dusts and potential splashes or
sprays of hazardous liquids.
Face shields do not protect
employees from impact hazards.
16. Head Protection
Prevent head injuries
Common head injuries;
-Falling objects, bumping one’s head against fixed objects (exposed
pipes/beams), contact with exposed electrical conductors.
Hard hats require a hard outer shell and a shock-absorbing
lining.
The lining should incorporate a head band and straps that
suspend the shell from 1 to 1-1/4 inches away from the user’s
head to provide shock absorption during impact and ventilation
during wear.
17. Head Protection
Employers must train employees in the proper use and
maintenance of hard hats, including daily inspection.
Remove hard hats from service if the suspension system shows
signs of deterioration or no longer holds the shell away from the
employee’s head. Also make sure the brim or shell is not
cracked, perforated or deformed, and does not shows signs of
exposure to heat, chemicals, or UV light.
18. Head Protection
Limit use of paints and stickers which can hide
signs of deterioration in the hard hat shell. Paints,
paint thinners, and some cleaning agents can
weaken the shell of the hard hat and may
eliminate electrical resistance.
19. Hearing Protection
Factors of employee exposure to excessive noise;
-How loud is the noise (db) ?
-How long is the duration of employee’s exposure to noise
?
-Do employee’s move between separate work areas with
different noise levels?
-Is noise generated from 1 source or more ?
20. Hearing Protection
The louder the noise, the shorter the exposure time
before you must provide hearing protection.
Employers must implement feasible engineering controls
and work practices before resorting to PPE such as
(earmuffs, earplugs, ear canal caps)
21. Foot Protection
Safety footwear should be used to protect employees from
injury.
Some common causes of injury include :
Heavy objects such as barrels or tools
Sharp objects such as nails or spikes
Molten metal
Hot or wet surfaces
Slippery surfaces
22. Safety Shoes
Have impact-resistant toes and heat-resistant soles that protect
against hot surfaces common in roofing, paving, and hot metal
industries.
Have metals insoles to protect against puncture wounds.
May be designed to be electrically conductive for use in
explosive atmospheres or nonconductive to protect from
workplace electrical hazards.
23. Metatarsal guards are a
part of the shoes or
strapped to the outside
of shoes to protect the
instep from impact and
compression
24. Hand Protection
Should be used to minimize the risk of hand injuries.
Types of hand injuries to guard against include :
Burns
Bruises
Abrasions
Cuts
Fractures
Amputations
Chemical exposures
25. • The nature of the hazards and
the operation to be performed
will determine selection of
gloves.
• The variety of potential hand
injuries may make selecting
the appropriate pair of gloves
more difficult than choosing
other protective equipment.
26. • Take care to choose gloves
designed for the particular
circumstances of workplace.
• Glove manufactures can
provide valuable assistance
28. Body protection
Should be used to protect workers against common
causes of injuries such as intense heat, splashes of hot
metals and other hot liquids, cuts, hazardous chemicals,
contacts with potentially infectious materials and
radiation.
29. Protective clothing comes in a variety of materials, each
suited to particular hazards.
Conduct your hazards assessment and identify potential
sources of bodily injury.
Different materials will protect against different chemical
and physical hazards
30. When chemical or physical hazards are present, check
with the clothing manufacturer to make sure that the
material selected will provide protection from the specific
chemical or physical hazards in your workplace.
32. Summary
Employers must implement a PPE program where they:
i. Assess the workplace for hazards.
ii. Use engineering and work practice controls to eliminate or
reduce hazards before using PPE.
iii. Select and provide appropriate PPE at no cost to employees to
protect them from hazards that cannot be eliminated.
iv. Inform employees why PPE is necessary/when it must be worn.
v. Train employees how to use and care for their PPE and how to
recognize deterioration and failure.
vi. Require employees to wear selected PPE in the workplace.
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