Personal Protective Equipment (OSHA training library deck)

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1. Slide 1

   Personal Protective Equipment

2. Slide 2

   Protecting Employees from Workplace Hazards

   • Employers must protect employees from workplace hazards such as machines, hazardous substances, and dangerous work procedures that can cause injury Employers must:
   • Use all feasible engineering and work practice controls to eliminate and reduce hazards
   • Then use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) if these controls do not eliminate the hazards.
   • Remember, PPE is the last level of control!
3. Slide 3

   Payment for PPE

   • When PPE is required to protect employees, it must be provided by the employer at no cost to employees, except for specific items, such as:
   • Safety-toe footwear,
   • Prescription safety eyewear,
   • Everyday clothing and weather-related gear, and
   • Logging boots
4. Slide 4

   Engineering Controls

   • If . . .
   • The machine or work environment can be physically changed to prevent employee exposure to the potential hazard,
   • Then . . .
   • The hazard can be eliminated with an engineering control.
5. Slide 5

   Engineering Controls (cont’d)

   • Examples . . .
   • Initial design specifications Substitute less harmful material Change process
   • Enclose process
   • Isolate process
   • Ventilation
6. Slide 6

   Work Practice Controls

   • If . . .
   • Employees can be removed from exposure to the potential hazard by changing the way they do their jobs,
   • Then . . .
   • The hazard can be eliminated with a work practice control.
7. Slide 7

   Work Practice Controls (cont’d)

   • Examples . . .
   • Use of wet methods to suppress dust Personal hygiene
   • Housekeeping and maintenance
   • Job rotation of workers
8. Slide 8

   Examples of PPE

   • Eye - safety glasses, goggles
   • Face - face shields
   • Head - hard hats
   • Feet - safety shoes
   • Hands and arms - gloves
   • Bodies - vests
   • Hearing - earplugs, earmuffs
9. Slide 9

   Establishing a PPE Program

   • Sets out procedures for selecting, providing and using PPE as part of an employer’s routine operation
   • First -- assess the workplace to determine if hazards are present, or are likely to be present, which necessitate the use of PPE
   • Once the proper PPE has been selected, the employer must provide training to each employee who is required to use PPE
10. Slide 10

    Training

    • Employees required to use PPE must be trained to know at least the following:
    • When PPE is necessary
    • What type of PPE is necessary
    • How to properly put on, take off, adjust, and wear
    • Limitations of the PPE
    • Proper care, maintenance, useful life and disposal
11. Slide 11

    Eye Protection

12. Slide 12

    What are some of the causes of eye injuries?

    • Dust and other flying particles, such as metal shavings or sawdust
    • Molten metal that might splash
    • Acids and other caustic liquid chemicals that might splash
    • Blood and other potentially infectious body fluids that might splash, spray, or splatter
    • Intense light such as that created by welding and lasers
13. Slide 13

    Safety Spectacles

    • Made with metal/plastic safety frames
    • Most operations require side shields
    • Used for moderate impact from particles produced by such jobs as carpentry, woodworking, grinding, and scaling
14. Slide 14

    Goggles

    • Protect eyes, eye sockets, and the facial area immediately surrounding the eyes from impact, dust, and splashes
    • Some goggles fit over corrective lenses
15. Slide 15

    Welding Shields

    • Protect eyes from burns caused by infrared or intense radiant light, and protect face and eyes from flying sparks, metal spatter, and slag chips produced during welding, brazing, soldering, and cutting
16. Slide 16

    Laser Safety Goggles

    • Protect eyes from intense concentrations of light produced by lasers.
17. Slide 17

    Face Shields

    • Protect the face from nuisance dusts and potential splashes or sprays of hazardous liquids
    • Do not protect employees from impact hazards
18. Slide 18

    Head Protection

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    What are some of the causes of head injuries?

    • Falling objects
    • Bumping head against fixed objects, such as exposed pipes or beams
    • Contact with exposed electrical conductors
20. Slide 20

    Classes of Hard Hats

    • Class G (formerly Class A) 1
    • General service (e.g., mining, building construction, shipbuilding, lumbering, and manufacturing)
    • Good impact protection but limited voltage protection Class E (formerly Class B) 1
    • Electrical work
    • Protect against falling objects, high-voltage shock/burns Class C
    • Designed for comfort, offer limited protection
    • Protects heads that may bump against fixed objects, but do not protect against falling objects or electrical shock
    • Per ANSI Z89.1-1997
21. Slide 21

    Hearing Protection

22. Slide 22

    Examples of Hearing Protectors

    • Earmuffs
    • Earplugs
    • Canal Caps
23. Slide 23

    Foot Protection

24. Slide 24

    What are some of the causes of foot injuries?

    • Heavy objects such as barrels or tools that might roll onto or fall on employees’ feet
    • Sharp objects such as nails or spikes that might pierce the soles or uppers of ordinary shoes
    • Molten metal that might splash on feet
    • Hot or wet surfaces
    • Slippery surfaces
25. Slide 25

    Safety Shoes

    • Have impact-resistant toes and heat-resistant soles that protect against hot surfaces common in roofing, paving, and hot metal industries
    • Some have metal insoles to protect against puncture wounds
    • May be designed to be electrically conductive for use in explosive atmospheres, or nonconductive to protect from workplace electrical hazards
26. Slide 26

    Metatarsal Guards

    • A part of the shoes or strapped to the outside of shoes to protect the instep from impact and compression
27. Slide 27

    Hand Protection

28. Slide 28

    What are some of the hand injuries you need to guard against?

    • Burns
    • Bruises
    • Abrasions
    • Cuts
    • Punctures
    • Fractures
    • Amputations
    • Chemical Exposures
29. Slide 29

    Types of Gloves

    • Norfoil laminate resists permeation and breakthrough by an array of toxic/hazardous chemicals.
    • Butyl provides the highest permeation resistance to gas or water vapors; frequently used for ketones (M.E.K., Acetone) and esters (Amyl
    • Acetate, Ethyl Acetate).
30. Slide 30

    Types of Gloves (cont’d)

    • Viton is highly resistant to permeation by chlorinated and aromatic solvents.
    • Nitrile provides protection against a wide variety of solvents, harsh chemicals, fats and petroleum products and also provides excellent resistance to cuts, snags, punctures and abrasions.
31. Slide 31

    Types of Gloves (cont’d)

    • Kevlar protects against
    • cuts, slashes, and abrasion.
    • Stainless steel mesh
    • protects against cuts and lacerations.
32. Slide 32

    Body Protection

33. Slide 33

    What are some of the causes of body injuries?

    • Intense heat
    • Splashes of hot metals and other hot liquids
    • Impacts from tools, machinery, and materials
    • Cuts
    • Hazardous chemicals
    • Contact with potentially infectious materials, like blood
    • Radiation
34. Slide 34

    Body Protection

    • Cooling
    • Vest
    • Sleeves and Apron
35. Slide 35

    Body Protection

    • Coveralls
    • Full Body Suit
36. Slide 36

    Summary

    • Employers must implement a PPE program where they:
    • Assess the workplace for hazards
    • Use engineering and work practice controls to eliminate or reduce hazards before using PPE
    • Select and provide appropriate PPE at no cost* to employees to protect them from hazards that cannot be eliminated
    • Inform employees why the PPE is necessary and when it must be worn
    • Train employees how to use and care for their PPE and how to recognize deterioration and failure
    • Require employees to wear selected PPE in the workplace
    • *See 72 FR 64341, Nov. 5, 2007 for exceptions