Example Of Personal Protective Equipment

PRACTICAL 7
PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT

INTRODUCTION
Personal protective equipment, commonly referred to as "PPE", is equipment worn that is compulsory to workers or farmers to minimize exposure to a variety of hazards especially from being contact with herbicides and their residues. Examples of PPE included gloves, boots, goggles or face shield, respirator, tyvek suit or apron. They are been used to protect the eyes, nose, mouth, skin and clothing.
PPE not even helps in protecting workers but also helps improves the productivity. Appropriate protective equipment can benefits farmers and ranchers for themselves, family members and workers from potential hazards and must be carefully selected. The protective equipment firstly needed to be tested to make sure of a proper and comfortable fit. This is because if it is not comfortable it won’t be worn by workers and if it is not worn, therefore it workers are not protected.
The best way to protect workers is by controlling a hazard. OSHA also emphasizes that the best control to manage or eliminate hazards is by the use of work site mo...