I am a big fan of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for three reasons.

The first reason is that Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is typically viewable from a distance by supervisors, managers, and, coincidentally, OSHA inspectors. It allows you to evaluate how healthy your company's safety culture is. If an employee is not wearing appropriate PPE for a task there are typically one of three causes.

1. They do not know the standard for the task.

2. They do not have the appropriate PPE available to them.

3. They have chosen to disregard the standard for some reason.

I used to have a manager who described this situation this way "We either have a training issue, or we have a discipline issue." In each case, an on-the-spot correction should take place with some questions to determine the reason for not following the company standard.

The second reason that I am a fan of PPE is that it helps prevent injuries which result in trips to the doctors office, workers compensation claims, and an increasing cost of doing business.

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The third reason that I believe in the value of PPE is that it is mandated by OSHA that employers provide it to employees when appropriate. Employers must look at their workplace to determine what hazards are present, and then they must select appropriate PPE, train employees to use it properly, and require that they use it.

SBI!