The body parts protected with PPE are attached to workers who keep your organization running. As an employer, you need to return the favor by providing them with effective PPE and make sure they use it.
PPE is a workplace safety measure that is very important. When you think of it you just imagine goggles, hard hats and steel toed shoes. But, we all know that there is a bigger picture, which includes a commitment to writing comprehensive PPE policies; selecting equipment that is appropriate for the work challenge and has the highest chance of being used; monitoring employee compliance and meeting the OSHA standard requirements.
The importance of PPE or personal protection equipment has been put forward in every OSHA safety training course. You can find the OSHA PPE standard featured in 29 CFR, 1910.132-138. There are general requirements and rules which cover respiratory, eye and face, head, foot, and hand protection.
To help your employees’ avoid hazards and select the best PPE for their protection, OSHA has recommended 4 steps process.
1.Survey the Area: This will help you understand and identify the sources of hazards associated in categories like penetration, impact, rollover, harmful dust, chemical heat, and optical radiation. You will come to know which protection to use.
2.Consider the Sources: Look out for hazard sources that include any processes or machinery in which movement of elements, particles or tools could occur, or where workers could collide with stationary objects. Also seek out the sources of sharp objects, rolling or pinching objects, high temperatures, and electrical hazards and survey the workplace layout.
3.Analyze Data: By analyzing the findings you can estimate the potential for injuries. The reviews should be based on the type and level of risk involved and the seriousness of the potential hazards.
4.Select the Protection: When you select the PPE, it must be based on the procedures that compare the hazards connecting with the environment against the capabilities of the accessible PPE. The equipment must ensure a level of protection much greater than the minimum required. Again the users must be fit enough to use the PPE and must be aware of the warning labels and limitations.
PPE is a workplace safety measure that is very important. When you think of it you just imagine goggles, hard hats and steel toed shoes. But, we all know that there is a bigger picture, which includes a commitment to writing comprehensive PPE policies; selecting equipment that is appropriate for the work challenge and has the highest chance of being used; monitoring employee compliance and meeting the OSHA standard requirements.
The importance of PPE or personal protection equipment has been put forward in every OSHA safety training course. You can find the OSHA PPE standard featured in 29 CFR, 1910.132-138. There are general requirements and rules which cover respiratory, eye and face, head, foot, and hand protection.
To help your employees’ avoid hazards and select the best PPE for their protection, OSHA has recommended 4 steps process.
1.Survey the Area: This will help you understand and identify the sources of hazards associated in categories like penetration, impact, rollover, harmful dust, chemical heat, and optical radiation. You will come to know which protection to use.
2.Consider the Sources: Look out for hazard sources that include any processes or machinery in which movement of elements, particles or tools could occur, or where workers could collide with stationary objects. Also seek out the sources of sharp objects, rolling or pinching objects, high temperatures, and electrical hazards and survey the workplace layout.
3.Analyze Data: By analyzing the findings you can estimate the potential for injuries. The reviews should be based on the type and level of risk involved and the seriousness of the potential hazards.
4.Select the Protection: When you select the PPE, it must be based on the procedures that compare the hazards connecting with the environment against the capabilities of the accessible PPE. The equipment must ensure a level of protection much greater than the minimum required. Again the users must be fit enough to use the PPE and must be aware of the warning labels and limitations.
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