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Using PPE in construction is essential to directly protect workers from physical impacts, environmental hazards, and sensory damage, minimizing injuries and fatalities in a high-risk environment.
Hard Hats:
Purpose: Protect the head from falling objects, impacts, and electrical hazards.
Why Required: Construction sites are inherently dangerous, with overhead work and potential for falling debris.
Safety Glasses/Goggles:
Purpose: Protect the eyes from flying debris, dust, chemicals, and splashes.
Why Required: Activities like sawing, drilling, grinding, as well as working with chemicals pose significant eye injury risks.
Hearing Protection (Earplugs/Earmuffs):
Purpose: Protect hearing from excessive noise levels generated by machinery, tools, and equipment.
Why Required: Prolonged exposure to loud noise can cause permanent hearing damage.
Respiratory Protection:
Purpose: Protect the respiratory system from dust, fumes, vapors, and hazardous airborne particles.
Why Required: Restoration work often involves exposure to silica dust, asbestos, mold, and other respiratory irritants.
Gloves:
Purpose: Protect hands from cuts, abrasions, punctures, chemicals, and temperature extremes.
Why Required: Handling sharp objects, rough materials, chemicals, and hot or cold surfaces is common in construction.
Safety Footwear (Steel-Toed Boots):
Purpose: Protect feet from slips & falls, impacts, crushing injuries, punctures, and electrical hazards.
Why Required: Restoration sites have potential for injury from slips & falls, falling objects & punctures from nails or sharp debris.
High-Visibility Clothing (Vests, Jackets):
Purpose: Increase visibility of workers, especially in low-light conditions or near moving equipment.
Why Required: Prevents accidents by making workers easily visible to equipment operators and other personnel.
Fall Protection (Harnesses, Lanyards):
Purpose: Prevent falls from heights.
Why Required: Working at heights, such as on scaffolding, roofs, or ladders, is a significant fall risk.
Full Body Suits (Tyvek Suits):
Purpose: Protect the entire body from hazardous materials, dust, and debris.
Why Required: When dealing with mold remediation or other hazardous materials it keeps your clothing and skin protected.
Face Shields:
Purpose: Protect the face from splashes & impacts
Why Required: When doing work that creates large amounts of flying debris.
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