Personal protective equipment (PPE) is anything used or worn by a person to minimise risk to the person’s health or safety and includes a wide range of clothing and safety equipment. PPE includes boots, face masks, hard hats, ear plugs, respirators, gloves, safety harnesses, high visibility clothing etc. Personal protective equipment (PPE) is one of the least effective ways of controlling risks to health and safety and should only be used: If personal protective equipment (PPE) is required, the person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) who is directing the work must provide PPE to workers at the workplace, unless it has been provided by another PCBU. This will usually be the person’s employer but could also be, for example, a main contractor at the workplace. It is an offence for a PCBU to charge or levy a worker for PPE, or cause a worker to be charged. Workplace relations laws also prohibit deductions from employee’s wages for work-related items such as PPE. Yes, persons conducting a business or undertaking can provide a personal protective equipment (PPE) allowance, providing the allowance covers the cost of the PPE required under work health and safety laws. You also need to ensure that any PPE purchased by the worker meets the minimum standards required by work health and safety laws. No, persons conducting a business or undertaking do not need to pay for uniforms, shoes or clothing that are generally considered not to be personal protective equipment (PPE). This includes workers’ regular clothing such as pants or jeans that are worn in a factory environment. The standard of personal protective equipment used at a workplace must be: When choosing the right personal protective equipment (PPE) for the job the selection processes must include consultation with users and their representatives and should also include: Persons conducting a business or undertaking should ensure: Personal protective equipment (PPE) must be maintained, repaired or replaced so it continues to minimise the risk to the worker who uses it. This includes by ensuring the equipment is: The PPE must be maintained to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that it is used for work by the worker. Where personal protective equipment (PPE) is provided and used at work, you should remember that: A worker who is provided with personal protective equipment (PPE) by their person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) must: If a worker refuses to wear or use the PPE, the PCBU can take action against the worker. A worker who does not wear or use PPE, or intentionally misuses or damages it, may also face prosecution. A person other than a worker must wear the personal protective equipment at the workplace in accordance with any information, training or reasonable instruction provided by their person conducting a business or undertaking. Because you never know what may happen. It may seem like a fairly simplistic answer but it is the reality that we live with. First Aid Kits are the kind of thing you must think about before an emergency strikes so that you can be prepared for the unexpected. Yes, many of the items contained in a First Aid Kit do have expiry dates, typically 3-5 years from the date of manufacture. All of the First Aid Kits that we sell include a published expiry date. It is important that you maintain a regular review of your first aid kits and replace components as needed. Nairobi Safety Shop refills First aid kits components.
The requirements to provide and pay for clothing and other equipment under the work health and safety laws only applies to items that are PPE.
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