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Personal protective equipment is used as secure clothing, helmets, goggles, or additional garments or instruments designed to ensure the protection of the wearer’s body or object from injury or complications. Physical, electrical, thermal, chemical, biohazard, and airborne particle matter threats are all handled with protective gear. Wearing protective gear is permitted for sports and other leisure activities as well as for occupational safety and health objectives. Traditional clothing categories are considered protective clothing, and protective gear includes accessories like padding, guards, shields, or masks, among other things. PPE suits can resemble cleanroom suits in appearance
All personal protective equipment must be designed and built safely, and it must be kept in a hygienic and dependable manner. It should be snug enough to encourage worker usage. Fit issues with personal protective equipment might be the difference between being securely covered and being dangerously exposed. Employers are required to provide personal protective equipment to their employees and oversee its appropriate usage when engineering, work practice, and administrative controls are not practical or do not offer enough protection.
The type of hazard, the region of the body protected, and the type of clothing or accessory are all ways to classify personal protective equipment PPE. One piece of clothing, like boots, may offer several different types of safety: a steel toe cap and steel insoles to protect the feet from crushing or puncture wounds, impervious rubber and lining to keep out liquids and chemicals, high reflectivity and heat resistance to keep out radiant heat, and high electrical resistivity to keep out the electric shock such as listed below: