PPE Tips

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is a vital component for many jobsites around the world. For a safety manager, knowing about the proper use of PPE is vital. Since PPE is so important to workplace safety, OSHA/OHS have extensive requirements. From knowing the specific OSHA/OHS standards, to written certifications, to properly demonstrating PPE use, understanding all the PPE requirements can be a daunting task.

Besides supervisor awareness, an essential component of fostering a safe work environment is driving home the importance of PPE for your employees through effective training. PPE isn’t the most glamorous subject, and many employees zone out of safety meetings focused on this because they may have worked with PPE for a while and think they understand all the elements that proper PPE usage entails. As such, it is especially important to deliver safety meetings about PPE in an engaging, interactive way so that employees retain and employ the proper PPE procedures.

Despite what you may think, there are many ways to make a safety meeting about PPE interesting and engaging. Here are three tips to make your PPE meetings more dynamic:

1. Present a PPE related scenario to your employees and ask them what PPE is called for and why, awarding a prize to the best response.
2. Bring PPE to a meeting and demonstrate how to put on, adjust, wear and remove PPE properly.
3. Present fatality reports focused on improper PPE, providing real world examples that can leave a lasting impression on your employees.

For even more ways to present a perfect PPE meeting click here download SafetySmart’s complementary PPE Safety Kit. The PPE Safety Kit provides everything you need to hold an engaging, interesting safety meeting on PPE, including preparation tips, safety talk, quiz, handout, word search, and overview of US and Canadian law, and much more!

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