Personal Protective Equipment

Personal Protective Equipment is often known as PPE and refers to any protective clothing, helmets, goggles, glasses or other garments that are designed to protect the wearer from injury. Under no circumstances can an employer ask for money from an employee for any PPE that is required, regardless if it is returnable or not. This requirement also applies to agency workers if they are legally regarded as your employees.

PPE has serious limitations due to the fact that it does not eliminate the hazard at source and may result in employees being exposed to the hazard if the equipment fails. Therefore, PPE should always be used as a last resort and you should always try to eliminate the hazard wherever possible.

Citation plc’s health and safety consultants will visit your organisation and help you to determine areas of high risk. The health and safety consultant will then advise you on the best ways in which you can eliminate or control hazards. If the only way of controlling the hazard is the use of PPE then the consultant and the Citation plc help line will steer you in the right direction.

On occasions, staff will need to be trained how to use some personal protective equipment for example respiratory protective equipment (RPE). It is vital that any selected RPE is adequate and suitable for the purpose and it may be necessary to undertake face fit testing which needs to be done by a trained, competent person.

It is equally important to ensure that all equipment that is supplied is maintained and in functioning correctly as well as making sure that equipment is stored correctly when not in use. Citation plc will provide suitable forms which you can use to record who has been issued with what equipment and when. The form also enables you to record if any training has been provided to individuals.

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Operating throughout the UK with experts on Health & Safety Law on hand in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and Cardiff, Citation have emerged as one of the United Kingdom’s leading health and safety and employment law consultancies.

Citation provides fixed cost compliance packages to organisations of all sizes throughout the country. Citation has been the recipient of a number of Business Awards including the Queen’s Award for Enterprise and is proud of its contribution towards a safe and fair business environment whilst at the same time relieving the burden of regulatory compliance from its clients.