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Personal Protective Equipment Risk Assessment

Personal Protective Equipment protects workers from injury or sickness caused by their work activities where other controls have not been available.  Employers have basic duties concerning the provision and use of PPE at work.

 

PPE is generally defined as ‘all equipment (including clothing affording protection against the weather) which is intended to be worn or held by a person at work and which protects him against one or more risks to his health or safety’, eg safety helmets, gloves, eye protection, highvisibility clothing, safety footwear and safety harnesses.

PPE should be considered as a ‘last resort’ when other control measures have been considered and either implemented or proven to be ineffective. There is a recognized hierarchy of controls within Health and Safety which shows that other controls must be considered before the control of personal protective equipment.

 

The hierarchy has six categories as follows:

 

1. Eliminate hazard at source, e.g.

•use a non-hazardous substance instead of a hazardous one

•stop using a noisy machine

 

2. Reduce hazard at source, e.g.

•use a substance less hazardous than the one used at present

•replace a noisy machine with a quieter one

 

3. Remove person from hazard, e.g.

•replace person with machine

•do not allow people to work near noisy machines

 

4. Contain hazard by enclosure, e.g.

•isolate the hazard

•put soundproofing round noisy machine

 

5. Reduce employee exposure, e.g.

•four people exposed for two hours each, not one person for eight hours applies to exposure to substances or noise

 

6. Personal protective equipment (PPE), e.g.

•gloves, eye protection for substances and ear defenders for noise

 

PPE should be included in a risk assessment of the activity or task being undertaken.  Both employer and employee must understand the equipment’s purpose and its limitations.

 

The following help pages will give you help and guidance of TIRA’s Fire Risk Assessment Module.

 

1.PPE Risk Assessment Input Form

2.Entering Risk Assessment Hazards Findings

3.Adding Risk Assessments Corrective Actions

4.Sign the Risk Assessment Off

5.Adding Risk Assessment Briefing Notes

6.Producing Lists of Staff Briefed on Risk Assessment Findings

7.Search and Find a Specific Risk Assessment

8.Select a Risk Assessment for Editing

9.Select and Print a Risk Assessment

10.Print a Blank Risk Assessment 

11.Risk Assessment Standard Reports Menu

12.Build your own Questions Sets - Addendum A & B 

13.Adding Attachments (Images and Pictures)

14.Adding Hyperlinks (E-mail and Web Addresses) 

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