PPE, Signs & Safety

Workplace Safety and PPE cover personal protective equipment and safety products for industrial workplaces. The category includes head, hearing, eye, face, respiratory, hand, foot and fall protection, protective clothing, hygiene, spill control, signage, first aid and ergonomics.

Personal protective equipment protects individual parts of the body against workplace hazards. Other workplace-safety products support a safer environment through signage, first aid, spill control and ergonomic products. The working environment and changing conditions determine which protection is appropriate.

Workplace Safety and PPE are used across industrial workplaces. The protection groups cover respiratory hazards, electrical hazards, firefighting, work at height, traffic and signage, and personal hygiene.

First identify the hazard and exposed parts of the body. Then assess the workplace, task and changing conditions. Select the protection group and determine whether several items of PPE must be worn together without interfering with head, eye, respiratory or fall protection.

Key attributes are protection area, workplace hazard, operating environment, wearing compatibility and the type of safety product or PPE.

Frequently asked questions

Identify the respiratory hazard and conditions in which the equipment will be worn. Then check whether the respiratory protection must function together with eye, face or head protection.

Fall-protection equipment addresses tasks with a fall hazard. Assess the task and working environment and determine which other protective equipment will be worn at the same time.

Traffic and signage products support a safer working environment. Select the signage according to the workplace and the hazard that must be made visible or segregated.

Where several items protect adjacent parts of the body, they must remain usable together. Check that head, eye, face and respiratory protection do not interfere with each other.