Personal Protective

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1926 Subpart E Personal Protective and Life
Saving Equipment
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Subpart E - Personal Protective and Life Saving
Equipment

• 1926.95 Criteria for PPE.
• 1926.96 Occupational foot protection.
• 1926.100 Head protection.
• 1926.101 Hearing Protection.
• 1926.102 Eye and face protection.
• 1926.103 Respiratory protection.
• 1926.105 Safety net.
• 1926.106 Working over or near water.
• 1926.107 Definitions applicable to this subpart.

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HAZARD ASSESSMENT
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Examples of PPE

• Eyes - safety glasses, goggles
• Faces - face shields
• Heads - hard hats
• Feet - safety shoes
• Hands and arms - gloves
• Hearing - ear plugs, earmuffs

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1926.95(a)
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Who is required to pay for PPE?

• Safety glasses
• Prescription Safety glasses
• Work gloves
• Personal fall arrest system
• Hearing Protection
• Hard hats
• Respirators

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1926.95(b) Employee-owned equipment. ..
Employer shall be responsible to assure its
adequacy.
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1926.100 Head Protection

• The standard requires that employees exposed to
  overhead hazards be protected by hard hats

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Classes of Hard Hats

• Class G (old Class A)
• Used for general service (e.g., mining,
• building construction, shipbuilding,
• lumbering, manufacturing)
• Provides impact protection but limited
• voltage protection
• Class E (old Class B)
• Used for electrical work
• Protects against falling objects and
• high-voltage shock and burns

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Classes of Hard Hats (contd)

• Class C
• Designed for comfort, offers
• limited protection
• Protects head that bumps against
• fixed objects, but does not protect
• against falling objects, or electrical
• shock.

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BUMP CAP
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1926.96 Foot Protection
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Tennis shoe
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Noise And Hearing Protection

• What is loud that may require noise on your
  worksite?

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• 1926.101 Hearing protection.
• Hearing protection shall be worn when levels
  exceed 90 dBA averaged over an 8-hour day

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1926.101(c) Plain cotton is not an acceptable
protective device.
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• 1926.102
• Eye and face protection.
• Eye protection shall be provided when there are
• Physical
• Chemical
• Radiation
• Must be ANSI Z87.1 approved

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Eye Protection for EmployeesWho Wear Eyeglasses
Eyeglasses designed for ordinary wear do not
provide the required protection against workplace
hazards. Proper choices include

• Prescription spectacles with side shields and
  protective lenses meeting requirements of ANSI
  Z87.1 that also correct the employees vision
• Goggles that can fit comfortably over corrective
  eyeglasses without disturbing their alignment
• Goggles that incorporate corrective lenses
  mounted behind protective lenses

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Are side shields required to be compliant?
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What sort of Respir
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Respiratory Protection Standard1926.103 ?1910.134
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Respiratory Protection

• Required
• Voluntary

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Air monitoring
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Air Monitoring
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Respirator Program Requirements

• Written Worksite procedures
• Program Evaluation
• Selection of an appropriate NIOSH approved
  respirator
• Training
• Fit Testing
• Inspection, cleaning, maintenance, and storage
• Medical evaluations
• Work area Surveillance
• Air quality standards

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Types of respirators
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Tight -Fitting Coverings
Quarter Mask
Half Mask
Full Facepiece
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Filtering Facepiece(Dust Mask)
A negative pressure particulate respirator with a
filter as an integral part of the facepiece or
with the entire facepiece composed of the
filtering medium.
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Comfort Mask

• Bears no NIOSH Approval.
• Intended purpose is still to be a respirator
• Use a NIOSH rated dustmask instead

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Hand exposures
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Hand Protection

• General Requirements
• Skin Hazards
• Selection
• Based ON
• Performance characteristics of the protection
  tasks
• Conditions present
• Duration of use
• Hazards or potential hazards identified

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Leg Protection use of chain saw
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References

• Slide presentation was created using one from
  OSHAs website of the same title

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