Personal Protective Equipment
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.
Course Content
PPE training online includes details of a wide range of PPE options, so staff understand the full scope of equipment available, rather than a narrow default.
The course examines the legislation and regulations surrounding PPE, covering legal obligations and the safety standards that need to be met for PPE to be effective and safe to use.
PPE training online covers the role risk assessment plays in the selection and use of PPE, helping staff recognise that PPE is the last choice in the hierarchy of control, and must only be used when stated as appropriate in risk assessments.
The course concludes with advice on how to use, fit and wear PPE, and its physical and theoretical limitations, since even the right equipment fails to protect if it's not fitted or worn correctly.
The course covers how PPE can be used in combination as 3 or 5 point protection, along with the need for good maintenance, and when equipment that can't be maintained should be replaced.
The course finishes by covering effective methods to ensure broken or PPE that needs maintaining is not used, so a damaged item doesn't stay in circulation by accident.
Anyone required to use personal protective equipment as part of their role, or anyone responsible for selecting and managing PPE within a workplace.
Course Duration
60 mins
Course Certification
Approved by CPD, IIRSM & IOSH
