Personal Protective Equipments

(PPEs)
Better a thousand times careful
than once dead
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
This module will help you:
Types of PPEs
• Understand PPE selection
• Understand PPE care, storage, and disposal
 Required PPE is
determined by...
• The toxicity of the pesticide
• The formulation of the pesticide
• The activity you are performing
– Mixing and loading
– Applying
– Maintenance operations
 Understanding the term…….
• Personal protective equipment (PPE) refers to
protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other
garment or equipment designed to protect the
wearer's body from injury by contaminants, blunt
impacts, electrical hazards, heat, chemicals, and
infection, for job-related occupational safety and
health purposes.
• The use of personal protective equipment is to
reduce employee exposure to hazards.
 Always remember!
•

Personal protective equipment is

self-defense.
 PPEs can be classified as per:
• Nature of work
• Parts of the body area
• Material in contact
 PPE as per(nature of work)
• Biological hazard protection
• Biohazard suit
• Protective equipment for biological hazards
includes masks worn by medical personnel
(especially in surgery to avoid infecting the
patient but also to avoid exposing the personnel
to infection from the patient.) Gloves, frequently
changed, are used to prevent infection but also
transfer between patients.
• Flying debris or splashing liquids
• A face shield or welding mask protects from flying
debris such as produced by cutting, welding,
chipping, or sanding, and protects against
splashes or spray of liquids. Safety glasses provide
protection for the eyes and may additionally be
tinted to block UV or laser light. Goggles seal
tightly about the eyes and provide superior
protection from dust, dirt, and fumes.
 PPE as per body area

• Respiratory protection – confined spaces

• Air-purifying respirator
• Respirators such as "gas masks" and particulate
respirators filter chemicals and gases or airborne
particles. A second type of respirator protects users by
providing clean, respirable air from another source.
This type includes airline respirators and self-contained
breathing apparatus (SCBA).[4] In work environments,
respirators are used when adequate ventilation is not
available or other engineering control systems are not
feasible.[4]
 PPE as per body area
• Head
• A hard hat is a type of helmet– protect from
falling objects on head and when the worker
falling down – prevents from head injury.
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 PPE as per body area
• Eye protection
• Safety Goggles – polycarbonate – used for heat and
chemical resistance. They repel dust and protect the eye.
• Welding mask
• Cobalt glass – against UV rays from welding, heat from
furnaces.
• Lead glasses – against radiation hazards
• Hearing protection
• ear defenders and visor on a safety helmet
• Ear defenders
• Earplug
• Earmuffs
• Earpads/earflaps
 PPE as per body area
• Arm/shoulder protection
• Shoulder pads
• Forearm guard
• Fist guard
• Elbow guard
• Elbow pad
• Hand/Wrist Wraps
• Hand protection
• Gloves are available to protect against:
– Chemicals, contamination and infection (e.g. disposable latex/vinyl/nitrile
gloves)
– Electricity, when voltage is too high
– Extremes of temperature (e.g. oven gloves, welder's gloves)
– Mechanical hazards (e.g. rigger gloves, chainmail gloves)
– Lacerations and other wounds from sharp objects
 PPE as per body area
• Hand protection
• Leather Gloves: Hot jobs, rough surfaces, sharp
edges, welding etc.
• Asbestos gloves – hot jobs, to hold objects
• PVC gloves – organic acids, alcohol and
petroleum products
• Neoprene rubber – chlorinated solvents, mineral
acids
• Nitrile rubber gloves: mineral acids, alkalies
• Shock proof rubber gloves - electricity
 PPE as per body area
• Foot/Leg/hip protection
• Foot guard – rubber gum boots – acids,
alkalies and corrosives
• Hip pads (Hip pad)
• Knee pads
• Shin guard (shin guards)
• Combined knee-shin guards
 PPE as per body area
• Body:
• The word "chemsuit" is sometimes used to mean a real chemical-
protection suit.
• Boilersuit
• Hazmat suit
• Bombsuits
• Fire proximity suit
• Riding suits (abrasion-proof: made of leather, kevlar, ballistic nylon,
cordura, etc., and waterproof)
• Rubber / PVC – Acids, alkalies and other corrosive chemicals
• Splash suit, to protect against splashing chemicals
• Lead lining suits: x – rays, ionizing radiations – alpha, beta and
gamma rays.
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 Certifications for PPE
• What is CE Marking?

• CE Marking is NOT a quality-Mark. It is a mandatory conformity marking and refers

to Product Safety rather than to the quality of a product.
• CE Marking on a product:
• Indicates that the product complies with the essential health and safety
requirements of all applicable EU directives.

• A declaration by the manufacturer, or its representative, or the importer that

those requirements have been met in full.

• A declaration that all conformity procedures have been completed. The product is
allowed in the European market.

• Stands for the French phrase “Conformité Européene” which literally means
"European Conformity”.
 Certification ANSI
• OSHA requires that many categories of PPE
meet or be equivalent
• to standards developed by the American
National Standards Institute
• (ANSI). ANSI has been preparing safety
standards since the 1920s,
• when the first safety standard was approved
to protect the heads and
• eyes of industrial workers.
 Certification ANSI
• OSHA requires PPE to
• meet the following ANSI standards:
• Eye and Face Protection: ANSI Z87.1-1989 (USA
Standard for
• Occupational and Educational Eye and Face
Protection).
• Head Protection: ANSI Z89.1-1986.
• Foot Protection: ANSI Z41.1-1991.
• For hand protection, there is no ANSI standard
 ANSI Z359
• The standard applied only to fall arrest
equipment . The standard addressed fall
arrest equipment including harnesses,
lifelines, lanyards, energy absorbers and
anchorage connectors and elements of the
equipment including rope, straps, thread,
thimbles and connectors.
 EN standards for harness

• Complies with Standards EN 358, EN 361.

• EN 358: Personal protective equipment for work
positioning and prevention of falls from a height.
Belts for work positioning and restraint and work
positioning lanyards.
• EN 361: Personal protective equipment against
falls from a height. Full body harnesses
 PPE as per body area
• Safety harness
• Harness is Designed to distribute the fall arrest force through the
upper thighs, pelvis, chest and shoulders.

• The European standard for a full body harness is BS EN 361

• Directs the load to the legs

• Keeps body upright

• Prevents neck injuries

• For confined space works Person shall wear the harness which
have all the five D – Rings
 ATTACHMENT POINTS OF FULL BODY HARNESS

1. DORSAL D-RING 2. STERNAL D-RING 3. CHEST TEXTILE LOOPS

4. CHEST D-RING 5. LATERAL D-RING 6. VENTRAL D-RING

 Safety harness
The purpose of the harness is to
protect the person
from fall, work safely at height, on
difficult access
Areas like cleaning window panes,
chimneys, roof top etc.
Working and access inside the
confined space.
 Other fall protection systems
• Anchorage
• Lanyards
• Hooks – scaffolds and snap
• Ropes – polyamide and polypropylene
• Karabiners
• Descenders
• Fall arresters – retractables, wire rope FA
 Fall protection systems
karabiner
Anchorage system

Scaffold hook
 Fall protective systems
Rope grab FA
Double lanyard scaff hook
Retractable FA

Wire rope FA
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Personal Protective Equipment
(PPE)
 Chemical Protective Equipment
• Provide a barrier between you and
the chemical
– Level A - vapor w/SCBA (encapsulating
suits)
– Level B - splash w/SCBA (cover skin)
– Level C - splash w/APR
– Level D - “normal” work clothes
 Chemical Protective Clothing
Level A (Vapor Protection)
Provides responder with highest level of protection

Level B (Splash Protection)

Provides the responder with the highest level of
respiratory protection and protection against contact
with product from spills and splashes

Level C (Splash Protection)

Reduction in the respiratory protection but hazards shall
be well characterized (known and measured) to provide
use of APR’s.
Level A CPE
Level B CPE
Level C CPE
 Chemical Protective Clothing

Level D (normal workplace protections)

Used much more commonly in routine industrial

operations. No NFPA standard garment.

May include items such as:

Eye Protection
Coveralls
Boots that are chemically resistant
Hard hat
Gloves
 Stresses of Wearing CPC’s
Heat related stresses:

Heat Cramps, Heat Exhaustion, Heat Stroke

Cold related stresses:

Frostbite, Hypothermia

Psychological stress:

Hazardous area, “Body bag with Windows”

 Stresses of Wearing CPC’s
Exclusion criteria includes:

BP - diastolic pressure greater than 105 mm Hg

Pulse - greater than 70% of max (220-age)
Respirations - greater than 24
Temp – greater than 99.5 (oral) or 100.5 core
EKG – dysrhythmia not previously detected
Mental Status – altered, slurred speech clumsiness, weakness
Recent Medical History:
Presence of nausea vomiting, diarrhea, fever, URI, heat
illness, or heavy alcohol within the past 72 hours.
Any alcohol within the past 6 hours
New medications within the past 72 hours.
Pregnancy
Chemical Resistance/Compatibility
Three principle manners by which chemical
protective clothing materials can be compromised:

1. Penetration

2. Degradation

3. Permeation