This is what we do before we do the work at KUTHALA ELECTRICAL

1. Personal ProtectivePersonal Protective
EquipmentEquipment

2. PPE Course Overview
What is Personal Protection Equipment?
Why is it important?
What Do I wear?
OHSA Standards
What does PPE include?
Eye Care
Safety Goggles
Safety Boots
Hearing Protection
Respiratory Protection

3. What is Personal Protective
Equipment?
Personal protective
equipment or PPE is
protective equipment
used for work-
related occupational
health and safety
purposes

4. Why is PPE important?
PPE is designed to
protect the
worker’s body
from hazards and
injuries such as
blunt impacts,
electrical hazards,
heat, chemicals,
and infection, etc.

5. What Do I Wear?
 All employees, depending on
their jobs, are required to
cooperate in the strictest
observance of safety
legislation, regulations,
guideline policies and
procedures at all time.
 This includes wearing safety
shoes, hearing protection,
goggles, gloves, helmets,
safety vests, etc.
 Depending on their jobs,
employees are required to
wear all PPE while they are in
the manufacturing plant.

6. OHSA Standards
OHSA standards requires employer to:
Conduct documented assessment of
workplace hazards
Provide appropriate PPE when required
Provide training

7. OHSA Standard Training
OHSA standard training includes:
When PPE is required
What PPE is required
Proper Use of PPE
Limitations
Care & Maintenance

8. What does Personal Protective EquipmentWhat does Personal Protective Equipment
Include?Include?
 Eye & Face Protection
 Hearing Protection
 Hand/Skin Protection
 Body Protection
 Head Protection
 Foot Protection
 Respiratory Protection

9. Eye & Face Protection
Eye and face
protection is used to
Protect eyes from
hazards from:
 Airborne particles
 Liquid chemicals
 Molten metals
 Light radiation
 Dust

10. Eye & Face Protection includes:
Safety glasses with side shields
Goggles
Face shields
Welding Helmets

11. Safety Goggles
 Needed to be used when
protection is required
against chemicals or
particles
 Only provide protection
to the eyes
 Goggles are not
considered a sources of
protection for the whole
face, and cannot be used
for this purpose.

12. Safety Goggles - CSA
The Canadian Standards Association (CSA)-
certifies that safety glasses have plastic
polycarbonate lenses.
The manufacturer or supplier logo must be
marked or etched on all approved safety
lenses, frames (front and temple), removable
side shields, and other parts of the glasses,
goggles, or helmets.
Safety frames are stronger than street-wear
frames and are mostly heat resistant.

13. Safety Shoes
All employees must
wear safety shoes.
To meet the
required safety
standard, all
footwear must have
steel toe caps and
puncture resistant
sole.

14. Hearing ProtectionHearing Protection
 Within theWithin the
manufacturing plants ormanufacturing plants or
other noise pollutedother noise polluted
work environments,work environments,
employees are requiredemployees are required
to wear hearingto wear hearing
protection.protection.
 At differentAt different
workplaces, employeesworkplaces, employees
may only use ‘metalmay only use ‘metal
detectable earplugs’detectable earplugs’
provided by theprovided by the
companycompany.

15. Respiratory Protection
 Respirators can be used
for protection from
contaminants in the air.
This is only if other
hazard control methods
are not practical or
possible under the working
conditions.
 Respirators should not be
considered the first
choice for respiratory
protection in workplaces.

16. Respirators should only be used when...
 administrative controls or engineering are not
technically feasible
 engineering controls are being installed or repaired
 emergencies or other temporary situations arise
such as maintenance operations

17. Works Cited
http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/prevention/
http://www.flickr.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/

18. Please take the PPE quiz to testPlease take the PPE quiz to test
your knowledge.your knowledge.