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Personal
Protective Equipment
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is used to increase individual safety
while performing potentially hazardous tasks, and may include safety glasses,
hard hats, gloves, respirators, or any equipment or clothing used to protect
against injury or illness. Contractors should ensure that the proper types
of PPE are available for and used by their employees. OSHA's requirements
are found in 29
CFR 1926 Subpart E - Personal Protective Equipment.
- Contractors should use safety glasses with side shields to protect
against flying particles (e.g., saw dust, nails, metal shavings, etc.)
Goggles should
be used to protect against molten metal, liquid chemicals, acids and
caustic liquids, chemical gases and vapors. Shaded eyewear should be
used to protect
against potentially injurious light radiation (e.g., cutting and welding,
lasers).
- Contractors should wear hard hats working in areas where there is the
potential for falling objects or exposed energized electrical
conductors that could contact the head.
- Contractors should wear protective footwear (e.g., steel toe boots,
leather work boots, etc.) in areas where there is the potential
for foot injuries from falling or rolling objects, from objects piercing
the sole,
or from exposed
energized electrical conductors that could contact the feet.
- Contractors should wear hand protection (e.g., leather work gloves,
welder's gloves, appropriate chemical protective gloves, etc.)
to protect against hazards of skin absorption of harmful substances, severe
cuts or
lacerations, severe abrasions, punctures, chemical burns, thermal burns,
or harmful temperature
extremes.
- Contractors may use respiratory protection to protect against inhalation
hazards when engineering and administrative controls are not
feasible or adequate.
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