Personal Protective Equipment

What’s covered

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) plays a vital role in managing Health & Safety risks at work. This course will show how wearing PPE plays a crucial role in preventing and reducing fatalities, injuries and diseases that would otherwise occur in the workplace. It includes details of a wide range
of PPE options, examines the legislation and regulations that govern the responsibilities of employers, employees and suppliers, and provides a real-life case study showing the law in action.

What you’ll learn

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand the legislation surrounding the use of PPE, legal obligations and the safety standards that need to be met for PPE to be effective and safe to use.
• Recognise that PPE is the last choice in the hierarchy of control and must only be used when stated as appropriate in risk assessments.
• Evaluate the different types of PPE, state where it provides protection and understand that PPE can be used in combination as 3 or 5 point protection.
• Understand the need for good maintenance of PPE and then where it can’t be maintained it should be replaced.
• Create effective methods to ensure broken or PPE that needs maintaining is not used.

Modules in this course

Module Number	Module Name	Pass % Required
1	Introduction	70%
2	Regulations and Responsibilities	70%
3	PPE in Practice	70%
4	Risk Assessment, Selection and Use	70%
5	Types of PPE	70%
6	Maintenance and Replacement	70%

Recommended system requirements

• Browser: Up to date web browser
• Video: Up to date video drivers
• Memory: 1Gb+ RAM
• Download Speed: Broadband (3Mb+)

* The course duration is based on the amount of video content shown and is rounded off. It does not account in any way for loading time or thinking time on the questions.

Course Category: Health and Safety