Policy Updated On: 14 January, 2023.

What is personal protective equipment?

Personal protective equipment, commonly referred to as "PPE", is equipment worn to minimize exposure to hazards that cause serious workplace injuries and illnesses. These injuries and illnesses may result from contact with chemical, radiological, physical, electrical, mechanical, or other workplace hazards. Personal protective equipment may include items such as gloves, safety glasses and shoes, earplugs or muffs, hard hats, respirators, or coveralls, vests and full body suits.

What can be done to ensure proper use of personal protective equipment?

All personal protective equipment should be safely designed and constructed, and should be maintained in a clean and reliable fashion. It should fit comfortably, encouraging worker use. If the personal protective equipment does not fit properly, it can make the difference between being safely covered or dangerously exposed. When engineering, work practice, and administrative controls are not feasible or do not provide sufficient protection, workers must be provided with personal protective equipment and its proper use must be ensured. Workers must also be trained to use personal protective equipment to know as part of induction to know:

• When it is necessary
• What kind is necessary
• How to properly put it on, adjust, wear and take it off
• The limitations of the equipment
• Proper care, maintenance, useful life, and disposal of the equipment

Jhuthi's Enterprises Ltd has a PPE program among others. This program addresses the hazards present; the selection, maintenance, and use of PPE; the training of employees; and monitoring of the program to ensure its ongoing effectiveness, as a part of induction in our company.

 

Jhuthi’s Enterprises - Personal Protective Equipment Policy Statement

Whenever feasible, hazards must be eliminated through engineering, and/or administrative controls, prior to resorting to the use of PPE. In some work environments Personal Protective Equipment is provided and used to protect our personnel against hazards capable of causing injury, illness, or impairment. It is the sole responsibility of Jhuthi’s Enterprises Ltd to provide appropriate PPE our staff and personnel who may be subjected to a hazardous environmental condition during the execution of their tasks.

 In the spirit of health and safety, Jhuthi's Enterprises Ltd:

• Conducts PPE Hazard Assessments that identify when, where and what PPE is required.
• Provides appropriate personal protective equipment and training to employees exposed to hazards requiring PPE.
• Posts areas requiring PPE with appropriate caution signs. These areas include eye, face, head, hearing, and hand protection areas.
• Ensures that employees use PPE appropriately when required
• Always ensures that PPE Hazard Assessments are conducted when appropriate.
• Ensures that appropriate PPE is available to workers and any other personnel on site.
• And lastly, ensures that PPE is used properly where it is required.

Our personnel and workers in their turn:

• Use PPE in accordance with instructions and training received.
• Care for them properly and guard them against damage and/or contamination.
• Report PPE malfunctions or problems to the supervisory personnel.

 PROCEDURES:

• PPE will be provided and used in the following circumstances:
  * Where it has been determined that adequate engineering, and/or administrative controls do not reduce exposure potential to a safe level.
  * Where development or installation of engineering controls are pending. Where it has been determined that PPE is necessary to protect the health and safety of employees.
  * During short term, non-routine operations for which engineering controls are not practical.
  * During emergency situations such as spills, ventilation malfunctions, damage control, activities, etc.

PPE HAZARD ASSESSMENT CERTIFICATION

Our PPE Hazard Assessments are necessary to determine if hazards are likely to be present in the workplace which necessitates their use. Appropriate PPE is then selected and required for use by each affected employee as protection from the identified hazards. This process is always verified through a written certification that identifies the workplace evaluated, the person certifying that the evaluation has been performed, the date(s) of the hazard assessment, and the document as a certification of hazard assessment. At times, the workplace is reassessed if necessary. Our PPE certification system is usually for the purpose of identifying workplace hazards and the correct PPE to be worn. If a more comprehensive Job Safety Analysis (JSA) has been completed, which cover PPE requirements, that process serves as the PPE Hazard Assessment.