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This course will show how wearing PPE plays a crucial role in preventing and reducing fatalities, injuries and diseases that would otherwise occur in the workplace. It includes details of a wide range of PPE options, examines the legislation and regulations that govern the responsibilities of employers, employees and suppliers, and provides a real-life case study showing the law in action.
The course will also cover risk assessment and the role it plays in the selection and use of PPE along with discussing other hazard control measures that can be implemented.
Finally, the course will move on to how to use, fit and wear PPE and understand its physical and theoretical limitations.
Approved by CPD, IIRSM & IOSH
£35
In this instructor lead training, you will follow our expert instructors as they guide you through the course. The course itself will be a mixture of video presentations, interactive quizzes and a test at the end. But don’t worry, the instructor will give you all the information you need to ace the test. After you complete the course, you will receive a digital certificate straight away.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
• Understand the legislation surrounding the use of PPE, legal obligations and the safety standards that need to be met for PPE to be effective and safe to use.
• Recognise that PPE is the last choice in the hierarchy of control and must only be used when stated as appropriate in risk assessments.
• Evaluate the different types of PPE, state where it provides protection and understand that PPE can be used in combination as 3 or 5 point protection.
• Understand the need for good maintenance of PPE and then where it can’t be maintained it should be replaced.
• Create effective methods to ensure broken or PPE that needs maintaining is not used.
As the course is fully online, you only need either a computer, tablet or smartphone and an internet connection. The course is fully responsive so will work across any device. What’s more, you can even save the course and pick it up again, in exactly the same place on another device.
Estimated Time: 60 mins
Difficulty: All Levels
Categories: Construction, Health & Safety, Workplace Training
Tags: Construction, Health & Safety, PPE
This course is primarily aimed at people that work in industries such as construction where they are likely to need to use a wide range of PPE on a daily basis. However, there are many other areas of work where PPE is required such as factories, warehouses, window cleaners, healthcare workers, beauticians and many others.
This course can also form part of a more comprehensive health and safety or induction training package.
If this course sounds right for you, simply click the ‘buy this course’ button and you will be taken to our e-learning platform, from here you can purchase the course through our secure payment gateway. Alternatively, if you would like to purchase multiple courses or discuss bespoke training packages, please the ‘multiple courses’ button.
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