What is Personal Protective Equipment?
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is widely used in manufacturing, construction and fire fighting, road works, etc. They allow you to secure the workflow and create optimal working conditions for specialists. Goggles, aprons, gloves, overalls, respirators - all this can be attributed to PPE. Today, such products are produced in the widest range - both from natural and synthetic materials.
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is widely used in manufacturing, construction and fire fighting, road works, etc. They allow you to secure the workflow and create optimal working conditions for specialists. Goggles, aprons, gloves, overalls, respirators - all this can be attributed to PPE. Today, such products are produced in the widest range - both from natural and synthetic materials.
Each industry has its own means of protection
In medical facilities and laboratories, hygiene plays an important role, and in the field of fire fighting, heat resistance and smoke protection play a major role. Overalls cannot have both properties at the same time, and for each specific purpose, their own samples of PPE are made. The most common of them are:
• gas masks, respirators, self-rescuers, pneumomasks;
• bathrobes, overalls, vests, aprons;
• gloves, mittens, handhelds, elbow pads;
• boots, shoes, shoe covers, boots, high boots;
• helmets, helmets, pressure suits;
• face shields and goggles;
• anti-noise headphones and helmets.
Personal protective equipment also includes dermatological products: creams, ointments, skin cleaners, sprays, etc. In a word, everything that can protect a specialist when working with malicious environments.
What requirements must be met?
The choice of PPE should be approached as responsibly as possible, because the health and sometimes the life of employees directly depends on them. The main qualities that personal protective equipment should have are:
• strength and wear resistance;
• 100% compliance with the professional field of application;
• climate compliance;
• high level of hygiene;
• convenience and ease of use;
• maintainability.
High-quality PPE can be used for several years, while maintaining its protective properties. This does not apply to respirators, self-rescuers and similar disposable equipment. In any case, PPE must meet the tasks for which they are designed, and have an affordable price - so that it can be replaced at any time without much damage to the company's budget.
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