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Lesson-4 LO2.1 PPE

The document discusses personal protective equipment (PPE) and its proper use in workplaces. It lists types of PPE like protective helmets, aprons, gloves, shields, and boots and when they should be worn to protect against hazards like falling debris, chemical splashes, and foot injuries. It also outlines requirements for PPE like conducting hazard assessments to determine needed equipment, maintaining and storing PPE properly, ensuring compliance with safety standards, and posting notices when PPE is required.

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Lesson-4 LO2.1 PPE

The document discusses personal protective equipment (PPE) and its proper use in workplaces. It lists types of PPE like protective helmets, aprons, gloves, shields, and boots and when they should be worn to protect against hazards like falling debris, chemical splashes, and foot injuries. It also outlines requirements for PPE like conducting hazard assessments to determine needed equipment, maintaining and storing PPE properly, ensuring compliance with safety standards, and posting notices when PPE is required.

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A. Multiple Choices. Write the letter of the correct answer.

_____ 1. The main purpose of wearing this kind of PPE is to protect our
limbs and body from metal dusts, flaming combustion, flying chips, minute
particles and stray metallic objects from abrasive wheels, drills and cutting
tools
A. Cover all B. Protective Headgear C. Safety goggles D.
Safety shoes
_____2. A safety helmet or wide-brimmed hat for head protection.
A. Cover all B. Protective Headgear C. Safety goggles
D. Safety shoes

_____3. A pair of protective coverings for the hands, usually with separate
divisions for the fingers and for the thumb.
A. Apron B. Gloves C. Goggles D. Pot holder

._____ 4. Safety shoes in the shop designed specifically with hard or metallic
materials in the toe areas.
A. Cover all B. Protective Headgear C. Safety goggles
D. Safety shoes

_____5. This is a protective instrument for the eyes with transparent eye-
pieces.
A. Cover all B. Protective Headgear C. Safety goggles
D. Safety shoes

B. Directions: Write T if the statement is True and F if the statement is


False. Use separate sheet of paper.

_____ 1. Protective helmets must be worn only where there is a risk of falling
debris.
_____ 2. The equipment should be well maintained and stored correctly.
_____ 3. A respirator may be required in all workplaces.
_____ 4. Aprons, gloves and shields are necessary where there is possible
spillage or splashes of chemical, blood or other hazardous material.
_____ 5. Mechanical Drafting requires headwork and must be done in quiet
surroundings.

Info Sheet 2.1 Read the Information Sheet very well then find
out how much you can remember and how much
you learned by doing Self-check 2.1.

Mechanical Drafting requires headwork and must be done in quiet


surroundings. But sometimes draftsmen are also need to do fieldwork to see
the actual project site they are developing and planning for. They have to
think and explore other designs that will fit the needs of present technology.
In this case they must be aware of using the PPE.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Using personal protective equipment (PPE) helps to prevent the


transmission of communicable diseases between patients and health care
providers. It can also help to prevent the contamination of exposed wounds
or sores from germs or bacteria that can travel from a health care provider to
the patient. Knowing how to properly use PPE can help to insure the safety
and well-being of health care providers and emergency responders.

Engineering and administrative controls are not exempted in the


different hazardous things normally happened in the workplace, the use of
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) protects workers from injury. Personal
Protective Equipment must be used and worn in many work situations in
order to protect employees from harm.

Types and Uses


Personal Protective Equipment Inspection Checklist

Here are some requirements with which workplaces must abide

Assessments
 A hazard assessment will identify when PPE needs to be used, in what
circumstances, and who must wear it.
Maintenance
 The equipment should be well maintained and stored correctly. It must
be repaired or replaced when necessary.
 Protective helmets must be worn where there is a risk of falling debris.
 Aprons, gloves and shields are necessary where there is possible
spillage or splashes of chemical, blood or other hazardous material.
 Protective, steel-toe boots should be worn where there is a risk of
damage to worker's feet.
 Goggles or other eye-protection devices should be worn whenever
there is a danger of the eyes being splashed or damaged in the course
of work

Compliance

 Safety boots or head-protection equipment is worn; it must comply


with the Standards Safety Requirements.
 A respirator may be required in some workplaces.
 Eye wash material will need to be kept on the site where there is a
danger of splashes in the eyes. Where PPE such as goggles or safety
helmets are required, a notice to this effect should be posted at the
entrance to the workplace.

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