Which Personal Protective Equipment Course Does Your Crew Need?
The catalogue carries this course and a single-topic course for each kind of protective equipment: head, eye, foot, hearing, hand, body and respiratory. This one covers all seven in an hour or two. The single-topic courses go deeper into one. Two of the neighbours are genuinely different animals rather than a slice of this one.
- Personal Protective Equipment Safety (this page). The whole-workforce course. Seven kinds of equipment, when each is required, how to select it, wear it, maintain it and store it. Buy this when you need everyone trained to the same baseline rather than a few people trained deeply. View the Personal Protective Equipment Safety (this page)
- Respiratory Protection. Respiratory protection is the one kind that carries its own written program, medical evaluation and fit testing under 29 CFR 1910.134. This course covers respirators at awareness level; a workforce that actually wears them needs the dedicated course as well. View the Respiratory Protection
- Personal Protective Equipment for the Competent Person. For the person who performs the hazard assessment rather than the person who wears the outcome. 29 CFR 1910.132(d) puts that assessment on the employer and requires it to be certified in writing, and that is a different job from wearing a hard hat correctly. View the Personal Protective Equipment for the Competent Person
Start from how many kinds of equipment your crew actually wears. One or two, and the single-topic courses like Hearing Protection Safety may be enough. Three or more, and the overview is cheaper and faster. Whoever signs the hazard assessment needs the competent person course either way.
The Five Things Protective Equipment Training Must Cover
29 CFR 1910.132(f)(1) names five things, and any PPE course worth buying can be held against that list. This one is built around it.
- When protective equipment is necessary. Recognising the hazard that triggers the requirement, which is where the seven equipment types in this course each begin: what makes head, eye, foot, hearing, hand, body or respiratory protection necessary in the first place.
- What protective equipment is necessary. Selecting the right type for that hazard. The course works through glove materials, shoe compounds, hard hat classes, respirator ratings and the rest, because the wrong choice protects nobody.
- How to put it on, take it off, adjust it and wear it. Donning, doffing, adjusting and wearing. The mechanical part, and the one most often skipped, which is why 1910.132(f)(2) makes the employee demonstrate it before doing the work.
- Its limitations, and how to care for it. Limitations, proper care, maintenance, useful life and disposal. Equipment stops protecting people long before it looks finished, and 29 CFR 1910.132(f)(3) sends workers back to training when the equipment or the workplace changes.
Five items, one standard, and a course you can check against it line by line before you buy anything.
interesting
Very informative