For living people work at different places, some of the people work at industry, some people work at mill and many different places. Sometimes the work an individual does is difficult and dangerous of their health. Some people take precautions and some people do not take precautions. Precautions are necessary because it prevents many unfortunate problems. Some time people wear different types of clothes and gadgets to avoid the unfortunate situation.
Dangerous workplace
There was a time when only a fire man used to protect themselves, but now everyone tries to wear the protection. Injuries can be due to many reasons, some of them are,
- Dangerous Chemicals
- Radiological
- Electric shock
An individual can be injured due to many reason especially when they are working with chemicals, radiology and electricity, to avoid these types of injuries an individual should use PPE, which is also known as personal protective equipment. The personal protective equipment is worn to reduce the expose of the chemical, and radiology.
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
Personal protective equipment is worn by the workers to avoid the harmful radiations. There was a time when not everyone was feeling comfortable to wear the personal protective equipment, but they are designed in such a way that everyone that are fashionable as well as funky. The personal protective equipment should have following characteristics,
- The personal protective equipment should be comfortable to wear.
- The personal protective equipment should fit an individual body.
- The personal protective equipment should be neat and clean
- Fitting of the personal protective equipment
When the PPE is not fit and according to the size of the worker than it will not provide as much security and protection to an individual than it should be, therefore the personal protective equipment should fit the individual and it should also according to the size of an individual.
Requirement of personal protective equipment
Organization usually train their employees for personal protective equipment because employees should know the importance of personal protective equipment like,
- Why it is necessary
- When it is important to wear personal protective equipment
- The pros and cons of the personal protective equipment
- Maintenance and repairing of the personal protective equipment.
- How to wear the personal protective equipment and how to remove the personal protective equipment.
- How to adjust the body in the personal protective equipment.
Law and employees right
It is a right of an employee to work in a secure workplace, therefore the companies should provide the security to the employees.