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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.
OHSA Standards
OHSA standards requires employer to:
Conduct documented assessment of workplace hazards
Provide appropriate PPE when required
Provide training
OHSA Standard Training
OHSA standard training includes:
When PPE is requiredWhat PPE is requiredProper Use of PPELimitationsCare & Maintenance
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 particles Liquid chemicals Molten metals Light radiation Dust
Eye & Face Protection includes:
Safety glasses with side shields GogglesFace shieldsWelding Helmets
Safety Goggles
Needed 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.
Safety Goggles - CSA
The 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 Shoes
All employees must wear safety shoes.
To meet the required safety standard, all footwear must have steel toe caps and puncture resistant sole.
Hearing ProtectionHearing Protection Within 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, workplaces, employees may only employees may only use ‘metal detectable use ‘metal detectable earplugs’ provided by earplugs’ provided by the companythe company.
Respiratory Protection Respirators 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
Works Cited
http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/prevention/
http://www.flickr.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/
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