1.

List and describe the two primary means of protecting employees from workplace
hazards prior to considering personal protective equipment (PPE).

• Employers must protect employees from workplace hazards such as machines,

hazardous substances, and dangerous work procedures that can cause injury

•Employers must:
1. Use all feasible engineering and work practice controls to eliminate and reduce
hazards.
2. Then use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) if these controls do not
eliminate the hazards.

2. What should be included in PPE training (list at least 4 requirements)?

• When PPE is necessary.

• What type of PPE is necessary.
• How to properly put on, take off, adjust, and wear .
• Limitations of the PPE .
• Proper care, maintenance, useful life and disposal.
3. List PPE that may be used to protect the eye, face, head, feet, hands, arms, bodies,
and hearing.

• Eye - safety glasses, goggles.

• Face - face shields.
• Head - hard hats.
• Feet - safety shoes.
• Hands and arms - gloves.
• Bodies-vests.
• Hearing - earplugs, earmuffs

4. Identify hazards that are lessened or eliminated by using the appropriate PPE for eye
protection, hearing protection, foot and hand protection, face protection and body
protection. Discussion should include goggles and safety glasses, face shields, hard
hats, ear plugs and ear muffs, safety shoes, gloves, and various coveralls.

❖Goggles
• Protect eyes, eye sockets, and the facial area immediately surrounding the eyes from
impact, dust, and splashes.

❖Hard hats:
Protects the worker from fallingobjects, bumping head against fixed objects, such as
exposed pipes or beams and from contact with exposed electrical conductors.

❖Earmuffs:
• To protect the worker from the noise damage that might occur in the workplace.
❖Safety Shoes:
Have impact-resistant toes and heat-resistant soles that protect against hot surfaces for
foot protection and found common in roofing, paving, and hot metal industries.

❖Gloves:
• Used for protecting hands from burns, bruises, abrasions, cuts, punctures, fractures,
amputations and chemicalExposures.

❖Coolings,sleeves and aprons, coveralls and full body suites used for protecting the
body from dangers like these:
• Intense heat
• Splashes of hot metals and other hot liquid’s
• Affects from tools, machinery, and materials
• Cuts
• Hazardous chemicals.
• Contact with potentially infectious materials, like blood.
• Radiation