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PPE: Essential Head Protection Guide

Personal protective equipment (PPE) includes head protection like hard hats that protect workers from impact and penetration injuries. There are several types of hard hats that provide different levels of protection. Hard hats have an outer shell to prevent penetration and absorb impact, an internal suspension system, and are often water and fire resistant. They come in various classes that offer protection from impacts as well as differing levels of protection from electrical hazards.

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PPE: Essential Head Protection Guide

Personal protective equipment (PPE) includes head protection like hard hats that protect workers from impact and penetration injuries. There are several types of hard hats that provide different levels of protection. Hard hats have an outer shell to prevent penetration and absorb impact, an internal suspension system, and are often water and fire resistant. They come in various classes that offer protection from impacts as well as differing levels of protection from electrical hazards.

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SEVEN TYPES OF PPE

1. HEAD PROTECTION
A head injury can be severely
disabling or even fatal. Lining of a Hard Hat
A hard hat or safety helmet protects
a worker from impact and penetration
4. Fit Properly – should not bind, slip, fall
injuries that can occur on the job.
off, or irritate the skin. It should include
A worker should wear a hard hat clear instructions about adjusting and
whenever: replacing the various parts of the hat.
 the potential for falling
objects from above;
5. Worn in Forward Position
 minimal headroom exists;
 a worker can accidentally
touch an electrical hazard
Types of Hard Hat
with the head.
1. Type 1 – protects from impacts overhead

Hard Hat Characteristics


1. Hard Outer Shell – is essential for
preventing penetration and absorbing
impact.

2. Water and Fire Resistant

3. Internal Lining – must have a headband


Type 1 Hard Hat
and straps that suspend the hard hat between
well as protection from 0 to 22,000
volts of electricity. This is the highest
level of protection against electrical
hazards.

2. Type 2 – protects from side and overhead


impacts.

Class E Hard Hat

Type 2 Hard Hat 3. Class C (for conductive) – are


lightweight and comfortable. They
provide impact resistance but no
Classifications of Hard Hat electrical hazard protection.
1. Class G (for general) – provide impact
and penetration resistance as well as
protection from 0 to 2,200 volts of
electricity.

Class C Hard Hat

4. Bump Caps – is made of a hard shell


Class G Hard Hat but does not have a suspension system
inside to protect from impacts.

2. Class E (for electrical) – provide Bump caps are designed for use in areas
impact and penetration resistance as of low head clearance where there is no
danger of falling objects. These provide
minimal impact resistance, and no
protection from penetration or electrical
hazards.

Bump Cap Hard Hat

2. EYE AND FACE PROTECTION

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