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Personal protective equipment toolbox talks and guides: hazard assessments, PPE audits, gloves, eye and face protection, electrical and cold-weather PPE, fit and care, and getting crews to wear it without pushback. Practical guidance from the Michigan safety consultants at Three Sixty Safety.
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is often the last line of defense between a worker and a serious injury. Yet in many workplaces, PPE is chosen once, written into a procedure, and then forgotten. Tasks…
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Short answers for supervisors and safety leads.
Yes. Under 29 CFR 1910.132(d), employers must assess the workplace for hazards that require PPE and verify it with a written certification that names the workplace evaluated, the person certifying it and the date(s) of the assessment, and states that it is a certification of hazard assessment.
Employers must provide required PPE at no cost to employees, with limited exceptions (29 CFR 1910.132(h)). For example, employers do not have to pay for non-specialty safety-toe footwear or non-specialty prescription safety eyewear, provided employees are allowed to wear them off the job site.
Retrain whenever changes in the workplace or the type of PPE make earlier training obsolete, or when a worker shows they do not understand or use the PPE correctly (29 CFR 1910.132(f)(3)).
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