Protective Clothing Toolbox Talk
Wearing appropriate clothing when handling equipment and machinery is essential to reduce the risk of injury. Use this free protective clothing toolbox talk to identify hazards and reduce them in your workplace. Explore more TBTs and view and download 60+ others that cover everything with our toolbox talks kit.
Free online toolbox talk about protective clothing
Introduction
Many accidents occur because people on site don’t pay sufficient attention to their own health and safety. You can do a great deal to protect yourself simply by knowing what is available, wearing the correct clothing, and using the protective equipment appropriate to your job.
Employers are obliged by law to provide workers, without charge, with any items identified as necessary to protect health and safety. The following list of personal protection are examples of such items but it is not exhaustive.
Main points
- Suitable protective clothing for persons working out of doors in rain, snow, sleet, or hail and low temperatures
- Suitable protective clothing for persons working with materials such as asbestos or asbestos-based materials, lead, cement, or concrete. Check your COSHH assessments.
- Eye protectors or shields where work activities/processes carried out are likely to cause eye injuries.
- Respirators or breathing apparatus as protection against dust or fumes or lack of oxygen. Have you got a copy of the COSHH assessment for the substances you use?
- Safety nets, harnesses, and lines to prevent falls where it’s not practical to provide working platforms.
- Ear protectors where it’s not practicable to reduce noise below an exposure level of 85 decibels (85 dB(A)).
- Safety helmets.
- Steel toe-capped footwear is now recommended on building/construction sites and for some jobs it is mandatory.
You are required by law to cooperate and wear such clothing and equipment where the circumstances demand it, store it in an appropriate place, and report any defects.
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