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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Awareness and Usage
Rating: 3.8 out of 5(14 ratings)
25 students

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Awareness and Usage

Understanding the Why to use, When to use, What to use and How to use PPEs in the Workplace.
Created byOluseye Kolawole
Last updated 4/2024
English
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What you'll learn

  • Identify the appropriate Personal Protective Equipment to be used to protect different part of the body against hazards
  • Identify the different classes of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
  • Understand the Standards that guide the use of PPEs
  • Identify when PPEs are to be used and what kind of PPEs are necessary
  • Gain knowledge on the proper care, maintenance, useful life, and disposal of the equipment

Course content

1 section • 10 lectures • 43m total length

  • Facilitator Introduction1:29

    Alicia Kolawole introduces the PPE awareness and usage course, inviting active participation with examples, quizzes, practice questions, and valuable resources, while promising feedback on assignments and future updates.

  • Course Introduction1:27

    Explore the fundamentals of personal protective equipment (PPE), including eye and face, head, foot, hand, and respiratory protection, and engage with quizzes, exercises, a case study, and available resource materials.

  • Accident Scenario - Hard Hat (PPE)0:21
  • Introduction - Levels of Protective Clothing7:12

    Outline OSHA's PPE requirements, written hazard assessment, training, fit, maintenance, and disposal, then introduce EPA levels of protective clothing (A, B, C, D) and their protections.

  • Quiz 1
  • Eye and Face Protection1:32

    Select eye and face protection against flying particles, molten metal, chemicals, gases or vapors, and light radiation, ensuring comfort, fit, durability, cleanability, including prescription or filter lenses and manufacturer identification.

  • Quiz 2
  • Head Protection6:12

    Identify head protection hazards and wear an OSHA-approved hard hat where there are falling objects or electrical conductors. Know hat types and classes, voltage protection, and ANSI ISO labeling.

  • Quiz 3
  • Foot Protection10:11

    Explore protective footwear standards, labeling, and selection to prevent foot injuries, covering ASTM F2413, F2412, impact and compression resistance, metatarsal protection, and electric hazard considerations.

  • Quiz 4
  • Hand Protection2:31

    Learn how to perform a hazard assessment and choose appropriate hand protection, guided by CFR regulations, hazard types, selection criteria, and glove testing standards like ANSI, ASTM, and European standards.

  • Quiz 5
  • Respiratory Protection12:56

    Explore respiratory protection strategies, identify when to use respirators, and compare atmosphere supplying, air purifying, and combination models, including fit testing and hazard assessment.

  • Quiz 6
  • Final Course Exercise - PPE Hazard Assessment0:08

Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of HSE is required for proper understanding of this course
  • Health, Safety and Environment Essentials (HSE Level 1) course is recommended

Description

Personal protective equipment, commonly referred to as "PPE", is equipment worn to minimize exposure to hazards that cause serious workplace injuries and illnesses. These injuries and illnesses may result from contact with chemical, radiological, physical, electrical, mechanical, or other workplace hazards. Personal protective equipment may include items such as gloves, safety glasses and shoes, earplugs or muffs, hard hats, respirators, or coveralls, vests and full body suits.

This course addresses the reasons for the use of PPEs, the appropriateness of the us of PPEs, the scenarios within which certain PPEs are to be used and the type of PPEs to be used and also how to use them.

The course also addresses the limitations of PPEs, the proper care, maintenance, useful life and disposal of Personal Protective Equipment.

The course covers PPEs that are to be used for Head protection, Foot protection, Eye and Face protection, Hand protection, Respiratory protection amongst others. The course also discusses the various classes of protection in the workplace and what the standard (OSHA standard in this case) requires from organisations as regards Personal Protective Equipment administration.

The course contains case studies, additional explanatory videos, quizzes, further study materials and a PPE hazard assessment exercise.

Who this course is for:

  • Workers that need to use PPEs in the workplace and that need to understand what PPEs to use, when to use them and in what situations.
  • Safety Supervisors and Managers that wish to acquire better understanding of PPE administration in the workplace
  • Safety Professionals that want want to refresh their knowledge of PPE standards, use and care.

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