Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), hard hats, orange shirts or jackets, safety glasses, work boots, and lanyards, any of these and /or all are a acquirement according to OSHA rules on residential or commercial construction work zone. PPE saves lives every day and has been a proven way and extra protection to keep accidents low in the workplace. The following PPE is discussed in hopes to save another life. or reduce the potential of getting hurt in the workplace.
Hard hats
Hard hats are used as a protectant of the head. Hard hats are a made aluminum or a hard plastic to cover and shield the head from dropping objects, objects flying like wire when fencing, or flying nails, or rocks.
In large companies the employees are usually organized by colors such orange for safety, white for supervisors and lime green for the new employees, stickers are usually placed on the hard hat with employees names and name of company. by doing this it lets the other person know who and what company they work for witch makes business a whole lot easier, helping to save time and money when you can automatically acknowledge someone’s name on the job and what department they are working for.
Safety Glasses
Safety glasses protect the eyes against flying objects, and puncture of an eye, for an example ,from a stick or rock,. The Eyewear has saved many penetrating objects from entering the eyeball. Saving a company loss in money, time, and havoc in the work system, to replace an employee and even keeping a company from getting sued.
Safety vest
Safety jackets or safety colored shirts , orange, or bright green are used for letting a driver or machine operator see the worker. When a worker wears regular clothes or brown overalls they blend in with the stick, trees, and stones in the background. If the worker is not easily seen then that raises the chances of the worker getting hit by a driver or a piece of machinery.
Tunnel vision also is a common entity on the job amongst machine operators which also increases the chance even more of a worker getting hurt or even possibly death can occur. Using the colored shirts of orange, or lime (bright green) can save your life. if you are wearing colors and you still get hit by machinery than the driver or operator is at fault and needs an eye exam. The worker should also watch out for the operator it is always so important to stay in the view of the operator.
Clothing
It is best to wear appropriate clothing for the job, use common sense like when working around augers, belts, gears, and pulleys. This means no loose clothing and hair should be put up or cut short , or it will get caught and you could loose a body part or get killed.
Appropriate shoes, work boots for maintenance or construction. A good boot often avoids the foot from getting cut or punctured by falling debris. Thongs and sandals are not aloud.
Gloves there are several different types of gloves it is usually up to the employee to provide the gloves needed for the job.
So as you can see here that (PPE) Personal protective equipment saves lives and reduces accidents in the workplace by the numbers.
Lanyards
Lanyards are to be worn when on a roof of a construction site. the lanyard is to keep a person from falling and crashing to the ground.
Personal protective equipment (PPE) rules are placed for a reason, and to follow them is a regulation. To violate such rules there are matters of repercussion like getting fined, fired, or a accident, or death may occur and then there is the mental health that goes along with it like the guilt, the PTSD post traumatic stress disorder, Nightmares. So, please I urge you where your PPE and save a life, save yourself, and the company. Such problems do exist when not following the rules.