Personal protective equipment is pieces of equipment or apparatus used or worn by workers to protect themselves against the hazard that exist in the work place.
The important of personal protective equipment cannot be over emphasized. It serves as the immediate and the ultimate protection for workers in all categories of processes in a work place. The catastrophe that would be created with the absence of personal protective equipment can be imagined. It prevent accident, burns, wounds, falls, laceration, head injury or brain damage, eyes deformities.
The use of personal protective equipment is a component activity of hazard elimination, group of activities of safety programmed. The national safety council [1981] ranks the use of protective equipment among the least of all known hazard elimination activities. The councils view is consideration of the observation that personal protective equipment can only be refined upon safety measures, after all elimination of activities like engineering design safeguarding of machines the training education of employers.
The fact that accident occurs in work places and workers are injured, properties are damaged and impairment ensure, the need to be properly protected cannot be over stressed since if the work are protected the frequent concurrence of accident and exposure to health hazards will be grossly reduced.
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