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Topic:-  Presonal Protection System 

The Safety Gears Are Barrier Against Workplace Hazards.

The basic objective of any safety is to protect users from safety and health hazards that can’t be engineered out. To pick the right PPE for your employees, you must assess the potential hazards.

Rotating & Moving machinery is everywhere!  Construction equipment, production machinery, process equipment, transportation devices, such as automobiles and bicycles, home shop and yard equipment, and even office photocopiers contain moving parts that can cause injuries.

Personal protective equipment (PPE) in one form or another has been around for centuries. There’s evidence, for example, that early people wore turtle shells on their heads as primitive hard hats. We know that medieval knights wore suits of armor to protect against the hazards of their workplace—the battlefield. And historians tell us that during the Renaissance, construction crews at the Vatican in Rome wore head protection to keep their noggins safe from falling construction materials. Of course, in those days, PPE was optional. But today, providing employees with PPE and making sure they use it is a requirement.

If it revolves, swings, spins, slides, opens, closes, or moves in any way at all, it can hurt or kill you. We often think about fingers or other extremities that might get caught in machinery, however a person could be dragged into many pieces of equipment and be injured or crushed even before they have a chance to cry out for help. Injuries related to machinery and equipment often result in death or permanent disability.

OSH says that personal protective equipment must be provided, used, and maintained in a sanitary and reliable condition wherever hazards exist in the workplace. This includes hazards from processes, chemicals, radiation, or other dangers capable of causing injury or illness through absorption, inhalation, or physical contact.

Selection Of Work Related Safety Gears (PPEs) 

To determine if any hazards requiring safety gears are present, or are likely to be present, in your workplace, OSH says you have to perform Hazard assessments.
This rule applies to every job in your workplace. The regulation states that you have to evaluate each job and then certify in writing that the PPE hazard assessment has been performed.

The written certification should identify the:

• Workplace and job evaluated
• Date of the assessment
• Person certifying that the evaluation has been performed
• Hazards found
• PPE selected

Once the assessment is complete, you must determine what types of PPE are appropriate for your workers, make sure the PPE selected fits individual workers properly, and ensure that employees know how to use PPE correctly. To assist you in the hazard assessment and PPE selection process.

Getting Protected From Rotating / Moving equipment.

• Be thoroughly trained in the safe operation of the equipment.  This is especially important for new and temporary workers.
• Do not remove safety guards – they are there to protect you.  This applies to tools and shop tools as well.
• Do not wear loose fitting clothing, jewelry, or long hair that could be entangled or pull you into running machinery.
• Follow safe work practices for the safe operation of machinery. Follow correct lockout procedures to prevent unintentional start-up during adjustments or repairs.
• Be aware of all stored energy sources, including electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, gravity, and springs.
• Be alert to your surroundings and how close you are to moving equipment.
• Never reach into moving equipment or machinery.
• Report any unsafe conditions and inadequate guarding.

Employee Training

To make sure that employees understand the importance of PPE and how to use it properly, you must provide training to each employee who is required by OSHA standards to use PPE.
PPE training has to teach employees five basics:

• When PPE is necessary
• What PPE is necessary
• How to properly don, doff, adjust, and wear PPE
• The limitations of the PPE
• The proper care, maintenance, useful life, and disposal of the PPE

You have to conduct training before you allow employees to perform work that requires the use of PPE. And each worker trained must demonstrate an understanding of the training and the ability to use PPE properly.

Retraining is required in situations where:

• Changes in the workplace render previous training obsolete
• Changes in the types of PPE to be used render previous training obsolete
• Inadequacies in an employee’s knowledge or use of assigned PPE, indicate that the employee has not retained the requisite understanding or skill

Verification of training and retraining is required, too. You must verify that each trainee has received and understood the required training through a written certification that contains the name of each employee trained, the date(s) of training, and identification of the subject of the certification.