Importance Of Ppe

Register to read the introduction… It also includes clothing designed to protect against adverse weather conditions. Personal Protective Equipment should not be confused with a works uniform, e.g. nurses uniform or shop assistants overalls. That is provided as part of the company’s ‘image’ and is not covered under the PPE regulations. The use of PPE to protect people is the last line of defence and other measures to control the hazards and risks involved should be considered first. All too often there is not enough effort put into reducing or eliminating hazards and too much reliance is placed on the use of Personal Protection to prevent the hazards causing injury or ill health.
The employer has a duty to ensure that if PPE is provided for protection against a known hazard that the ‘user’ actually wears this. Regular supervision is important and if necessary a disciplinary procedure should be introduced for people who refuse to wear the agreed protection. As individuals have a duty to comply with the employer’s health and safety arrangements, it would be considered a breach of health and safety law if the employee refused to wear specified PPE.
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Express yourself Talk about it, write about it, shout or moan about it: expressing your feelings can help to relieve stress. Acknowledging a problem to yourself and to others can be the first step in dealing with it. Sometimes having a good cry or bashing a pillow can release emotional pressure and calm your feelings of anxiety.

Tackling Anxiety
Anxiety is a normal response to danger or stress: it prepares us for coping with stress. Anxiety is only a problem when it is out of proportion to a situation or goes on for too long. Then our thoughts may become muddled and we may experience physical symptoms such as rapid breathing, racing heart, sweaty palms, tense muscles. Anxiety can lead to panic attacks. Learn how to breathe efficiently and practise it in order to prevent over breathing (too much oxygen in the blood). This causes a series of unpleasant physical symptoms i.e. tingling hands and face, muscle cramps and tremors, dizziness, breathing difficulties