Personal Protective Equipment

Session 4

Facilitator
Date
Company

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Personal Protective Equipment

PPE Defined
Basic PPE
Clothing
Fall Arresting Protection
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

What is PPE?

Equipment used to reduce injuries

from hazards.

Can you think of examples of PPE?

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 Share Stories

It’s your first day on the job.

You need to wear/bring PPE.

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Canadian Workplace Expectations

Why do you need PPE in the workplace?

How will you know what to bring?

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Canadian Workplace Expectations

What do employers require?

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 Eye protection

• Goggles • Keep things • Construction

out of eyes • Electrical
• Shield purpose • Lumber

industry
• Welding
type

• Emergency
• Respirator response

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 Head protection

• hardhats • Protect • Construction

head from • Refineries
falling • Drilling
objects rigs
purpose

industry
type

• Protect • Electrical
head from • Logging
banging
• Pulp &
into
paper
objects

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 Foot Protection

• Boots with • Protects feet • Construction

steel toes from objects • Refineries
and shanks falling on or • Drilling rigs
• CSA piercing
• Electrical
Purpose

industry
approved them
• Logging
type

• Pulp & paper

• Lumber
• Protects feet
from walking
into things

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 Limb and body protection

•Gloves • Protects • Construction

hands or • Metal work
body from • Mining
•Aprons rough,
• Drilling rigs
purpose
sharp, hot or

industry
• Chemical
type

chemical
objects work
•Body suits

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 Ear protection

• Ear plugs • Protects • Construction

ears from • Electrical
noises that • Drilling rigs
could
purpose
• Ear muffs • Logging

industry
type

harm
• Ground
hearing.
crews for
airlines

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 Respiratory

• Air • Filters air • Construction

purifying into the • Lawn work
lungs • Auto body
• Supplies
purpose

industry
• Atmosphere • Confined
type

supplying clean air spaces

to breathe • Emergency
response

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 Fall Arresting Protection
• A - Anchorage - a fixed structure or structural
adaptation, often including an anchorage connector, to
which the other components of the PFAS are rigged.
• B - Body Wear - a full body harness worn by the worker.
• C - Connector - a subsystem component connecting the
harness to the anchorage - such as a lanyard.
• D - Deceleration Device - a subsystem component
designed to dissipate the forces associated with a fall
arrest event.

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 Fall Protection

• Safety • Protect • Electric

belts workers utility
• Harness from linesmen
falling • Electrical
purpose

industry
• Lifelines
type

• Drilling
rigs
• Power
plants

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 Lifeline Anchorage

Anchors

Lifeline

Safety Office University of Waterloo

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 Full-body harness

Buckle
D-Ring
Webbing

Safety Office University of Waterloo 16

 Shock Absorbing Lanyard

Snaphooks
Webbing

Connects the harness to the anchorage

Safety Office University of Waterloo

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 Lifeline

Safety Office University of Waterloo

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 Rope grab

Safety Office University of Waterloo

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 Worksheets
• Task page 113 – 114 job safety skills program
• Page 115
• Page 117

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Clear Speech

Clear pause

speech

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 Acronyms
• PPE (personal protective equipment)
• CSA (Canadian standard approval)

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 Vocabulary
Respiratory system carries oxygen to body

Respirator breathing equipment

Shield guard or screen

Goggles safety glasses

Steel toes metal - hard toe area of boots

Steel shanks metal - hard middle part of boots sole

Limb body part - arm or leg

Apron protective garment worn over front of clothes

Body suit one-piece garment that covers the body and limbs

Long sleeved parts of a garment that wholly cover the arm

Ear plugs used to fill up to space in the ears

Ear muffs Used to cover up the ears

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 Vocabulary

A secure structure that has other parts of the

Anchorage
system joined

Connector (lanyard) joins the harness to the anchorage

straps fitted to a worker to fasten him/her

Harness
to something or to keep the him/her in position

Deceleration Device designed to lessen the forces of a fall arrest

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 Sayings
• Would it kill you to…..
• You should try losing….
• Can’t see a use for these?

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