What does PPE stand for? It's usefulness in Health and Safety

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What does PPE stand for? It's usefulness in Health and Safety

What’s PPE? Many of the jobs require working in a hazardous environment that impose some serious threat to the health of the workers. These occupations are mainly of technicians, construction workers, electricians, medical lab technicians, mine workers, to name a few.

What does PPE stand for in health and safety? Any device, equipment or clothing that is worn for the health and safety. PPE can be used to protect the skin, lungs, eyes, hands, feet, ears, head, and the whole body. Work-related dangers come in all forms like electric shock, cuts, skin infections, impacts, entanglement in machinery, extreme temperatures, burns, noise, projectiles that could harm eyes.

Protective Clothing Protective clothing is very useful in providing protection against workplace hazards and they are used as asbestos protective suits, gives protection from biological infective agents, chemical and nuclear particles.

Full Face Dust Mask Full face dust mask provides protection to the whole face of users from chemicals or toxic fumes or vapors.

Respirator Mask A very wide range of respirator masks are available in the market, from reusable to disposable, different respirator masks are used for different purposes. Fume respirators provide protection from welding fumes.

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