TRAD4903 - OSHA - Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Course Description
What is personal protective equipment?
Personal protective equipment, commonly referred to as "PPE", is equipment worn to minimize exposure to serious workplace injuries and illnesses. These injuries and illnesses may result from contact with chemical, radiological, physical, electrical, mechanical, or other workplace hazards. Personal protective equipment may include items such as gloves, safety glasses and shoes, earplugs or muffs, hard hats, respirators, or coveralls, vests and full body suits.
What can be done to ensure proper use of personal protective equipment?
All personal protective equipment should be of safe design and construction, and should be maintained in a clean and reliable fashion. It should fit well and be comfortable to wear, encouraging worker use. If the personal protective equipment does not fit properly, it can make the difference between being safely covered or dangerously exposed. When engineering, work practice, and administrative controls are not feasible or do not provide sufficient protection, employers must provide personal protective equipment to their workers and ensure its proper use. Employers are also required to train each worker required to use personal protective equipment to know:
- When it is necessary
- What kind is necessary
- How to properly put it on, adjust, wear and take it off
- The limitations of the equipment
- Proper care, maintenance, useful life, and disposal of the equipment
**RESPIRATORY PROTECTION TRAINING ( SEPARATE CLASS) YOU MUST REGISTER FOR BOTH IF YOU NEED RESPIRATORY PROTECTION TRAINING
A respirator can't protect you if you don't know how to use it properly. In addition, there is other important information that you must know about your respirator. Therefore, your employer must provide you with respirator training before you use a respirator on the job.
By the end of the respiratory protection training, you should be able to describe:
- Why you need to use the respirator;
- What the respirator can and cannot do to protect you;
- How to properly inspect, put on and take off, and use your respirator;
- How to check the seal of your respirator (also called a "user seal check");
- How to use the respirator effectively in emergency situations, including situations in which the respirator doesn't work properly;
- How to recognize medical signs and symptoms that may limit or prevent you from using a respirator;
- How improper fit, usage, or maintenance can reduce your respirator's ability to protect you;
- What the procedures are for maintenance and storage of the respirator; and
- What the requirements are for federal OSHA's or your State OSHA's Respiratory Protection Standards.
You should ask questions if you do not understand the information that is being provided to you.
You must be trained before you use a respirator, but this is not the only time that training is required.
Learner Outcomes
Following the Completion of the course, participants should be able to describe the following for PPEs:
- When it is necessary
- What kind is necessary
- How to properly put it on, adjust, wear and take it off
- The limitations of the equipment
- Proper care, maintenance, useful life, and disposal of the equipment
Following the completion of the Respiratory Protection Training, participants should be able to describe the following:
- Why you need to use the respirator;
- What the respirator can and cannot do to protect you;
- How to properly inspect, put on and take off, and use your respirator;
- How to check the seal of your respirator (also called a "user seal check");
- How to use the respirator effectively in emergency situations, including situations in which the respirator doesn't work properly;
- How to recognize medical signs and symptoms that may limit or prevent you from using a respirator;
- How improper fit, usage, or maintenance can reduce your respirator's ability to protect you;
- What the procedures are for maintenance and storage of the respirator; and
- What the requirements are for federal OSHA's or your State OSHA's Respiratory Protection Standards.