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Personal Protective Equipment - Purpose and Use

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You are about to start a job. How will you know if you need any extra personal protective equipment (PPE)?
The risk assessment or process sheet defining Standard Work will tell you what PPE is required.
Who should provide you with any personal protective equipment (PPE) you are required to use, as well as need, including the way to maintain it?
Your employer is required to provide you with all required personal protective equipment at no cost to the employee; provided however, the employee does not lose or intentionally damage the PPE.
You have been asked to do some work that will create dust. What should you do?
Use equipment that will eliminate or reduce the amount of dust whilst wearing correct personal protective equipment (PPE)
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
Equipment designed to protect the user from injury or illness related to an occupational risk or hazard.
What is the employees responsibility with regard to PPE?
The employee is responsible for using, properly storing and reporting damage or loss of personal protection equipment (PPE) to the supervisor or Safety Director.
What should you do if your personal protective equipment (PPE) gets damaged?
If the PPE is damaged while it is being used, the damaged equipment should be returned so that it can be replaced with a new equipment. Never continue working without the proper personal protective equipment.
Does the employee have to pay for required personal protective equipment (PPE)?
No. If the equipment is required for the job, the employer will pay for it. If the PPE is optional, the employer does not have to pay for it. The only time an employee would have to pay for required PPE is if the employee loses the PPE or takes it home and forgets to return it. In the case of loss or intentional damage, BLOX may charge the employee a replacement fee equal to the cost of the equipment. An employee is not permitted to work without proper PPE.
You have been given disposable earplugs to use in a place where they are required, but you are meeting a deadline and the plugs keep falling out. What should you do?
Stop work until you get more suitable ones and are shown how to fit them.
What are 4 things you cannot do with a hard hat while on a job site?
1. take it off during the hottest part of the day
2. wear it back-to-front if it is more comfortable that way
3. drill holes in it to keep your head cool
4. wear a hat that is not properly fitted
If you are working on a construction job site, when are you required to wear hard hat protection?
Hard hats are required at all times, even if you are just visiting or dropping off unless you are in a designated safe area, like the site office or eating areas.
Safety footwear can protect against what type of injuries?
Steel toe boots can protect from crush injuries. Boots with a protective mid-sole will protect you agains nails or sharp objects puncturing the underside of your foot if you step on them.
What type of eye protection do you need to wear if you are using a cartridge-operated tool or compressed gas tool (nail gun)?
Impact-rated goggles. Typical eye protection, including glasses or non-impact resistant safety glasses might shatter or break due to the high pressure of the tool.
When do you need to wear eye protection?
At all times on the plant floor and whenever there is a risk of eye injury due to the occupational hazards.
You need to wear ear protection, but one of the plugs has been lost or won't stay in. What should you do?
Do not work in noisy areas until they are replaced. If the equipment is available in the vending machine, get it.

If not, contact your Lead, Supervisor or the Safety Director immediately to obtain a replacement.
What can hearing protection do?
Hearing production will reduce damaging noise to an acceptable level.
You think the noise at work may have damaged your hearing. What should you do?
Ask your Safety Director to arrange a hearing test.
Noise at a high decibel level over a long time can damage your hearing. Can this damage be reversed?
No, the damage is permanent.
What is an early sign of hearing loss?
Temporary deafness or ringing noise in your ears.
When drilling, cutting, sanding or grinding what is the best way to protect your long-term health from harmful dust?
Wear a FFP3 rated dust mask and impact goggles.
What is the maximum amount of time you should you use the same disposable mask?
One day or one shift.
You are about to work around hazardous fumes. The only mask that you can find is the one you usually wear for dust protection. What should you do?
Do not start work until you have located the correct respiratory protective equipment (RPE).
You have been asked to do some work that will create dust. What should you do?
Use equipment that will eliminate or reduce the amount of dust whilst wearing correct personal protective equipment (PPE).
What does this sign mean?
You must wear hearing protection
How do you insert disposable ear plugs so that they protect your hearing from damage?
Roll them up and insert them as far as you can, while pulling the top of your ear up to open up the ear canal.
Someone near you is using noisy equipment and you have no hearing protection. What should you do?
Leave the area and tell a supervisor or the Safety Director so that you can obtain the correct personal protective equipment (PPE).
How can you determine if a dust mask is working properly?
1. Check it's the correct type needed.
2. Pass a face fit test wearing the mask
3. Check that you are wearing it correctly
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