1.What is PPE?
PPE is the abbreviation of personal protective equipment. The term "PPE" means any device or apparatus worn or held by an individual for protection against one or more hazards to health and safety. Used primarily to protect employees from severe injuries or illnesses caused by exposure to chemical radiation, electrical equipment, human power equipment, machinery, or in some dangerous workplaces. In addition to the mask, safety glass, safety shoes, personal protective equipment, including protective equipment, protective clothing, including helmets, goggles, ear protectors (earplugs), plenty of safety gloves, safety shoes, safety belt and respirator.
Including: protective shoes, goggles use protective goggles shoes.
Sunglasses and gardening gloves home: sunglasses, gardening gloves
Use: helmets for biking entertainment in-line/roller skating riding a bicycle, skating with the helmet
Personal protective equipment affixed with CE signs declares health and safety requirements consistent with the PPE directive and other instructions.
PPE should also include:
(a) with the number of a device or instrument by the manufacturer General Assembly, to protect the individual equipment in case of a combination of one or more potential risk at the same time;
(b) for the implementation of specific activities, personal wearing or holding the personal protective equipment and non separable or inseparable assembly in one protection device or apparatus;
(c) essential interchangeable PPE components for the above equipment with satisfactory functionality and proprietary use.
(d) any together with the PPE market, used to PPE with another external system, additional device connection, even if the system during the entire period of the dangerous environment is not always wearing or holding, shall be deemed to be part of the equipment.
2 PPE products including
A. designs simple models of PPE that do not require EC type tests when designers believe that users themselves can assess their minimum level of protection against hazards. The minimum danger is the danger that the action is gradual and can be perceived by the user in a timely and safe manner.
Such PPE should be limited to to protect the wearer against:
Mechanical action in the epidermis (gardening gloves and a thimble);
Effects of small, easy to remove and clean materials (for anti dilution detergent solution gloves, etc.);
- the danger of a heat treatment time, the risk will not put users at a temperature above 50 DEG C or not, the user by collision risk (such as some special occupation gloves, aprons and other);
For neither special protection, nor extreme under atmospheric environment (safety helmet, seasonal clothing, footwear and other);
- do not hurt the body part and a small group of fatal irreparable damage to the collision and vibration (light helmets, gloves, shoes and socks; light, etc.)
Sun (sunglasses).
B. complex design, intended for the prevention of deadly danger or prevention may seriously, and irreparable damage to the health of the dangerous PPE, users for designers to estimate the instantaneous effect of this dangerous to late notice, in this case, by the manufacturer choice, with eleventh of the two procedures in a. This type of PPE should be limited to:
For the protection of solid or liquid aerosol or irritation, filtering breathing device hazard of gas, toxic or radioactive toxicity;
For respiratory protection is completely isolated from the atmosphere, including respiratory protective devices for diving;
- provides limited protection for PPE chemical or ionizing radiation;
In the equivalent temperature of 100 DEG C, and may have to infrared radiation, flame or a large number of jet of molten material for use in high temperature environment characteristics of emergency equipment;
In effect is to use low temperature environment temperature of - 50 DEG C in first aid equipment;
- to guard against falling down from the height of the PPE;
- PPE used to protect against electric shock, danger and voltage, or for insulation in high voltage operation.
This directive does not apply to the type of PPE list
1. PPE (helmets, shields, etc) designed for the armed forces or for the maintenance of the order of the law.
2. PPE for self-defense (smoke canisters, self-defense weapons, etc.).
3 for personal use to prevent the following hazards and the design and manufacture of PPE:
Atmospheric environment (caps, seasonal clothing and footwear, umbrellas and other);
- moisture and water (dishwashing gloves, etc.);
- heat (gloves, etc).
4. PPE used to protect or rescue passengers on a ship or plane, and not always wearing it.
5. helmets and goggles for riders on two or three wheeled motorcycles.
