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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
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Printable PPE Take-Aways
Key Take-Aways:
  • Hazards exist in every workplace in many different forms
  • An employer will assess the potential hazards, and ideally try to eliminate or mitigate the risks
  • Engineering & administrative controls can be used to reduce the exposure to hazards
  • PPE - personal protective equipment - addresses any remaining risks and includes:
    • ​Head Protection
    • Eye Protection
    • Hearing Protection
    • Foot & Leg Protection
    • Hand & Arm Protection
    • Body Protection
  • ​Your responsibility is to:
    • ​Use the PPE based on the training received
    • Inspect your PPE daily
    • Maintain your PPE in clean & reliable condition
    • ​Replace your PPE as necessary
Every business is different. What is feasible and appropriate for any one business depends on its size, location and other unique characteristics. To help clients develop a sound approach to develop a plan to work within the OSHA guidelines, we are pleased to make this site available. Your company’s continued effort is essential to accident prevention & compliance with OSHA and all other safety legislation. Our assistance may be used as an adjunct in certain areas of that effort, but we assume and have no responsibility to you or others for the control or correction of conditions or practices existing at your premises, whether or not listed on this site. Further, we do not warrant that the completion of any recommendations will assure that the premises or operations are safe or healthful, or are in compliance with any law, rule, or regulation. Neither our association nor its individual members intend this site to be a definitive statement of the protocols and procedures that are applicable to each and every business.
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