Personal Protective Equipment

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Course Overview

This course will show how wearing PPE plays a crucial role in preventing and reducing fatalities, injuries and diseases at work. It includes details of a wide range of PPE options, examines the legislation and regulations and also covers the role risk assessment plays in the selection and use of PPE. The course concludes with advice on how to use, fit and wear PPE and its physical and theoretical limitations.

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Course Content

By the end of this course, you will be able to:
• Understand the legislation surrounding the use of PPE, legal obligations and the safety
standards that need to be met for PPE to be effective and safe to use.
• Recognise that PPE is the last choice in the hierarchy of control and must only be used when
stated as appropriate in risk assessments.
• Evaluate the different types of PPE, state where it provides protection and understand that
PPE can be used in combination as 3 or 5 point protection.
• Understand the need for good maintenance of PPE and then where it can’t be maintained it
should be replaced.
• Create effective methods to ensure broken or PPE that needs maintaining is not used.

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Course Duration

60 mins

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Course Certification

Approved by CPD, IIRSM & IOSH

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