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How to assess the PPE you need

What is PPE?

PPE stands for Personal Protective Equipment. It’s used across a range of industries to safeguard staff against the potential physical risks of their role. This equipment varies from sector to sector, but common items include:

  • Hi-vis vests
  • Gowns
  • Helmets and head covers
  • Goggles and face shields
  • Boots and shoe covers
  • Gloves

Construction and health services are two of the most dangerous industries in the world, each with various possibilities for physical harm. Having the right PPE is essential to preventing work-related injuries and fatalities.

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Finding the right PPE for your business

In the USA, employers have a legal responsibility to provide a safe workplace for employees. Follow these steps to find the right PPE for your business:

  1. Identify risks

Begin by identifying the risks involved with each position and in your workplace as a whole. For example, in the case of construction, this includes falling objects, working up a height and heavy machinery. In healthcare, it includes hygiene dangers and the transmission of infectious diseases.

The risks will naturally dictate the essential PPE for your business and how much is needed.

  1. Quality over cost

Supplying your workforce with equipment, some of which might be one-use only, is naturally expensive. However, you must prioritise quality over cost to ensure adequate protection is provided. A situation where you are sued for inadequate care would be much more costly, financially and to your reputation. 

Choose to buy from trusted PPE suppliers such as RS Americas who make items to the highest standards and sometimes offer savings on bulk orders.

  1. Consider climate

As well as focusing on protection, you also need to consider what kind of clothing would be comfortable in the climate. This isn’t just to make your employees happier – the dangers of sweat in the eyes or hands shaking from cold are very real across a range of industries.

Make sure that your workers are properly attired for the environment they’re working in, whether this is an outdoor building site or a hospital where cleanliness is the main focus. All-weather PPE includes non-slip thick gloves whereas thin disposables are more suited to indoor use.

  1. Prioritise fit

Finally, make sure to prioritise fit. Clothing or gear that’s too big may not function as intended – think about a helmet slipping sideways to reveal the skull – and conversely PPE that’s too tight might restrict movement in a way that invites injury.

Make sure that you’re well-stocked with PPE in a variety of sizes and that each employee has two full sets for an instant replacement if anything is lost or broken.

safety

Safety is the state of being “safe” (from French sauf), the condition of being protected from harm or other non-desirable outcomes. Safety can also refer to the control of recognized hazards in order to achieve an acceptable level of risk.

importance of being safety:-

A safe and healthy workplace not only protects workers from injury and illness, it can also lower injury/illness costs, reduce absenteeism and turnover, increase productivity and quality, and raise employee morale. In other words, safety is good for business.

Because some people haven’t got the common sense to use some equipment without hurting themselves or others. Remember someone telling you as a kid “don’t run with scissors”? Yeah – somebody probably tried that a century or three ago and the results were so bad that the grownups are still reminding the kids not to do it.

conclusion:-being safe is better than to be secure.always,try to be safe