PPE blog

Personal Protective Equipment.
What is PPE?
Personal Protective Equipment is protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other
garments or equipment 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 matter.
What are the basic requirements for PPE here at the HHS workshop?
include items such as gloves, safety glasses and shoes, earplugs or muffs, hard hats,
respirators, or coveralls, vests and full body suits.
Here is a photo of me in basic PPE Include a photo if you like.
What isn’t PPE? you can use this link to help https://www.shponline.co.uk/ppe-personal-protective-equipment/
1. Ordinary working clothes or uniforms not designed to provide for the health or safety of workers;
2. Clothing provided for food hygiene purposes
3. Equipment used for protection while travelling on a public road
(ie motorcycle or bicycle helmets);
4. Equipment used during competitive sport competitions
(but other protective equipment used by sports instructors would
be included eg life jacket worn by canoe instructor)
5. An offensive weapon used as self-defence or as deterrent equipment.
For example, truncheons or CS gas canisters as used by the police or military
(but helmets, body armour and other PPE used to protect staff from physical
violence, is included)
6. Portable devices for detecting and signalling risks and nuisances, such as
badges for detecting radiation, or personal gas detectors.
Who pays for your PPE?
The business must pay for the cost of PPE (unless you are choosing to provide
your own). The business cannot pass on the cost (in full or part) for providing
you with PPE.
Explain the different types/range  of basic PPE that is available in the workplace.
Face shield is aimed to shield the wearer's full face from risks such flying items
and road debris, chemical splashes, and possibly contagious materials.
Gloves keep covering for the hand for protection against dirt, and also having
distinct sections for each finger and thumb
Shoes keep to provide protection falling
Ear muffs are one of a pair of ear coverings connected by a flexible band and
worn as protection against cold or noises.