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Personal Protective Equipment
No safety technology is changing as fast as that employed in PPE. The devices of just a few years ago are now obsolete by replacements that are lighter, easier to use, and more protective. These resources alert you to developments in the field, and equally important, supply training ideas to get your workers to use their PPE, and use it correctly.
Yesterday, we talked about the use of face masks and respirators to protect against H1N1 exposure. Today, we expand our discussion to include the use of respiratory protection in general, as well as other types of personal protective equipment (PPE) designed to protect against an array of workplace hazards.
Are face masks or respirators really necessary to protect against H1N1 at work, on the street, or at home? That’s the question on the minds of a lot of people these days. See what CDC recommends.
Approximately 30 million Americans are exposed to high noise levels on the job. Long-term exposure to high noise levels can cause permanent hearing loss. That’s why OSHA requires employers to provide training and hearing protection when employees are exposed to harmful noise levels.
If you’ve got noisy work areas, you’ve probably also got questions about hearing protection and OSHA requirements. The experts at Safety.BLR.com® have been fielding these questions for years. Here is a sampling that may be helpful for your workplace.
PPE provides head-to-toe protection for your employees and keeps them safe from physical and health hazards when engineering and administrative controls alone can’t do the job.
The basic objective of any PPE program is to protect employees from safety and health hazards that can’t be engineered out. To pick the right PPE for your employees, you must assess the potential hazards.
In order to control or eliminate breathing hazards, OSHA has adopted respiratory protection regulations for general industry (except agriculture), shipyards, marine terminals, longshoring, and construction workplaces and for specific air contaminants. Today we’ll focus on the requirements concerning respirator inspection, maintenance, storage, and repair.
Yesterday’s Advisor examined some of the exceptions and loopholes in the seemingly simple “employer pays” rule for personal protective equipment (PPE). Today we look at some of the other gray areas of the recent rule.
On February 13, 2008, an OSHA rule took effect requiring employers to pay for personal protective equipment (PPE) for their employees. Sounds simple enough, right? Hah!
In yesterday’s Advisor, we reviewed OSHA’s foot protection requirements, and particularly the not-so-simple question of who is required to pay for it (generally the employers, but with certain notable exceptions). Today we move on to the proper selection and fit of foot protection, and we’ll look at a tool that helps you satisfy OSHA’s stringent foot protection – and other PPE -- training requirements.
Train Your Supervisors in Choosing the Right PPE … for Just $99!
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Personal protective equipment (PPE) can do more harm than good if it’s the wrong type for the job. Train your supervisors to assess the hazards in their areas, and then to choose the PPE that’s right with BLR’s innovative PowerPoint program: PPE: Hazard Assessment and Selection: It covers all this:
- Techniques of hazard assessment
- Specific hazards to eyes, face, hands, feet, respiration, and more.
- Specific types of PPE for each hazard, including emphasis on equipment meeting ANSI and NIOSH standards.
The customizable, 28-slide program also includes slide show notes, reproducible interactive exercises, handouts, a quick quiz with answers, a Trainer’s Guide, even a completion certificate.
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