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Does Your PPE Program Meet OSHA’s Requirements: 4 Critical Steps to Help You Comply and Protect Your Employees
The paint booth worker was a repeat non-user of the personal protective equipment (PPE) his employer provided, in this case a filter mask. Seeing the worker without his mask for the umpteenth time, the supervisor finally bellowed, “If I ever catch you without that mask on again, you’re out of here!”
Next day, the supervisor came up on the worker from behind and saw the mask strap in place on the worker’s head. “Great,” he thought! “I’m finally getting through to him.” That’s when the worker turned around.
Incredibly, he’d drilled a hole in the mask, through which dangled a lit cigarette! When the boss protested, the worker replied, “But boss, you told me I had to wear a mask, but not that I couldn’t smoke in it.”
Moral of the story: PPE isn’t just about equipment. It’s about covering all the bases … assessment, selection, training, motivation, and doing them all in ways that satisfy OSHA, your management, and your sense of responsibility to protect those you serve.
A great tool to help do it is BLR’s new special report, Does Your PPE Program Meet OSHA’s Requirements: 4 Critical Steps to Help You Comply and Protect Your Employees.
It looks at PPE from all the angles … what you need, how to train and motivate, how to comply.
4 Steps to Safety
That coverage comes in two parts.
The first part starts with OSHA’s PPE general standard, 1910.132, and explains, in plain English, how to implement it with your employees through these four key steps:
1. Hazard Assessment. OSHA says you need to first determine your need for PPE by looking at the hazards of your workplace. You may think you know the dangers, but have you ever considered the full range of what’s possible? We’ll take you through a checklist that’s a real eye opener!
2. Equipment Selection. OSHA demands that you provide PPE that’s up to the job. But what exactly does that mean? The report goes through critical factors such as researching Assigned Protection Factors (APFs) and ANSI standards to be sure that if inspectors—or lawyers—ask why you chose the gear you did, you’ve got the answers.
3. Employee Training. As our masked smoker showed, PPE is worthless unless workers understand the reason for it and properly use it. We’ll take you through the key elements of training, including use of the behavioral approach and incentives, and how to use them to greatest effect.
4. Reinforcement and Enforcement. PPE programs don’t end with handing out equipment and spending 10 minutes on how to operate it. Your program must be repetitive and consistent, but without pushing your workforce to a point of resistance. It’s a neat trick, and we’ll show you how to do it.
Report Part II: 4 Steps Applied to Specific PPE Categories
In the second major part of the report, we apply the four critical factors above to each of several commonly needed varieties of PPE. Look for separate, detailed information on assessment, selection, training, and reinforcement/enforcement for EACH of these PPE types:
- Eye and face protection
- Respiratory protection
- Head protection
- Occupational foot protection
- Electrical protective devices
- Hand protection
- Protective work clothing
A Hazard Assessment Certification Form, Too
The report also includes a valuable 4-page Hazard Assessment Certification Form that provides a checklist for a complete job of hazard identification—and also produces a permanent record that you’ve done it, and done it well.
This is great information for any safety professional. But perhaps the best thing about this must-have report is that it’s yours absolutely FREE, for signing up as a charter subscriber to the equally FREE Safety Daily Advisor.
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Thank you, and have a safe business day!
Jay Schleifer
Managing Editor
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