personal protective equipment

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PPE Course OverviewWhat is Personal Protection Equipment?Why is it important?What Do I wear?OHSA StandardsWhat does PPE include?Eye CareSafety GogglesSafety BootsHearing ProtectionRespiratory Protection

What is Personal Protective Equipment?

Personal protective equipment or PPE is protective equipment used for work-related occupational health and safety purposes

Why is PPE important?PPE is designed to protect the worker’s body from hazards and injuries such as blunt impacts, electrical hazards, heat, chemicals, and infection, etc.

What Do I Wear? All employees, depending

on their jobs, are required to cooperate in the strictest observance of safety legislation, regulations, guideline policies and procedures at all time.

This includes wearing safety shoes, hearing protection, goggles, gloves, helmets, safety vests, etc.

Depending on their jobs, employees are required to wear all PPE while they are in the manufacturing plant.

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OHSA StandardsOHSA standards requires employer to:

Conduct documented assessment of workplace hazards

Provide appropriate PPE when requiredProvide training

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OHSA Standard TrainingOHSA standard training includes:

When PPE is requiredWhat PPE is requiredProper Use of PPELimitationsCare & Maintenance

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What does Personal Protective What does Personal Protective Equipment Include?Equipment Include?

Eye & Face Protection

Hearing Protection

Hand/Skin Protection

Body Protection

Head Protection

Foot Protection

Respiratory Protection

Eye & Face ProtectionEye and faceprotection is used toProtect eyes fromhazards from: Airborne particlesLiquid chemicalsMolten metalsLight radiationDust

Eye & Face Protection includes:

Safety glasses with side shields GogglesFace shieldsWelding Helmets

Safety GogglesNeeded to be used

when protection is required against chemicals or particles

Only provide protection to the eyes

Goggles are not considered a sources of protection for the whole face, and cannot be used for this purpose.

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Safety Goggles - CSAThe Canadian Standards Association (CSA)-

certifies that safety glasses have plastic polycarbonate lenses.

The manufacturer or supplier logo must be marked or etched on all approved safety lenses, frames (front and temple), removable side shields, and other parts of the glasses, goggles, or helmets.

Safety frames are stronger than street-wear frames and are mostly heat resistant.

Safety ShoesAll employees must

wear safety shoes.To meet the

required safety standard, all footwear must have steel toe caps and puncture resistant sole.

Hearing ProtectionHearing ProtectionWithin the Within the

manufacturing plants manufacturing plants or other noise polluted or other noise polluted work environments, work environments, employees are employees are required to wear required to wear hearing protection.hearing protection.

At different At different workplaces, employees workplaces, employees may only use ‘metal may only use ‘metal detectable earplugs’ detectable earplugs’ provided by the provided by the companycompany.

Respiratory ProtectionRespirators can be used

for protection from contaminants in the air. This is only if other hazard control methods are not practical or possible under the working conditions.

Respirators should not be considered the first choice for respiratory protection in workplaces.

Respirators should only be used when...administrative controls or engineering are not

technically feasible

engineering controls are being installed or repaired

emergencies or other temporary situations arise such as maintenance operations

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