Occupational Safety And

Health
Personal Protective Equipment

Tengku Ahmad Ramadan Bin Tengku Kamarul Baharin

Mohd Zharfan Haziq BIn

Personal Protective
Equipment

What is Personal Protective

Equipment?
Personal protective
equipment or PPE is
protective equipment
used for workrelated occupational
health and safety
purposes

Why is PPE important?

PPE is designed to
protect the
workers body
from hazards and
injuries such as
blunt impacts,
electrical hazards,
heat, chemicals,
and infection, etc.

What Do I Wear?

All employees, depending on

their jobs, are required to
cooperate in the strictest
observance of safety
legislation, regulations,
guideline policies and
procedures at all time.

This includes wearing safety

shoes, hearing protection,
goggles, gloves, helmets,
safety vests, etc.

Depending on their jobs,

employees are required to
wear all PPE while they are in
the manufacturing plant.

OHSA Standards
OHSA standards requires employer to:

Conduct documented assessment of workplace

hazards

Provide appropriate PPE when required

Provide training

OHSA Standard Training

OHSA standard training includes:

When PPE is required

What PPE is required

Proper Use of PPE

Limitations

Care & Maintenance

What does Personal Protective Equipment

Include?

Eye & Face Protection

Hearing Protection

Hand/Skin Protection

Body Protection

Head Protection

Foot Protection

Respiratory Protection

Eye & Face Protection

Eye and face
protection is used to
Protect eyes from
hazards from:
Airborne particles
Liquid chemicals
Molten metals
Light radiation
Dust

Eye & Face Protection includes:

Safety glasses with side shields

Goggles

Face shields

Welding Helmets

Safety Goggles

Needed to be used when

protection is required
against chemicals or
particles

Only provide protection

to the eyes

Safety Shoes
All

employees must
wear safety shoes.

To

meet the
required safety
standard, all
footwear must have
steel toe caps and
puncture resistant
sole.

Hearing Protection

Within the
manufacturing plants or
other noise polluted
work environments,
employees are required
to wear hearing
protection.
At different
workplaces, employees
may only use metal
detectable earplugs
provided by the
company.
company

Respiratory Protection

Respirators can be used

for protection from
contaminants in the air.
This is only if other
hazard control methods
are not practical or
possible under the working
conditions.
Respirators should not be
considered the first
choice for respiratory
protection in workplaces.

Arm And Hand Protection

Hand and arm protection required when
handling abrasive, sharp or pointed objects or
while working vibrating equipments such as
pneumatic drills

Body Protection

Body protection to protect body include overalls , aprons ,coveralss

Life jackets harness and black support

Head Protection
A safety Helmet to be worn where there is risk
that person may be struck on the head by falling
object .

Referenes

https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/personalprotectiveequipment/

http://www.orosha.org/pdf/pubs/2738.pdf

http://books.hse.gov.uk/hse/public/saleproduct.jsf?
catalogueCode=9780717661398

Thank You