Protective Equipment PPE - British Safety Training

Average Duration: 45 Minutes

Digital & Printable Certificate

Unlimited Exam Attempts

Accepted Across the UK and Europe

Valid For 3 Years

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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Training Course

This Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Training course helps learners understand how to use PPE safely and correctly. The course is designed to provide employers, senior staff, and employees with a good understanding of the role of PPE for work activities. It outlines the responsibilities of employers and employees in the safe selection, use, supervision, maintenance, and storage of PPE, and explains the key principles and practices that help to ensure PPE is an effective part of the management of health and safety at work.

The course outlines the legal duties placed on employers, the self-employed, and employees at all levels in relation to PPE. It explains the position of PPE in the hierarchy of control, emphasizing that PPE should always be used in conjunction with other control measures where possible. With this knowledge, learners will understand the correct selection and use of PPE, which is vital for ensuring it is an effective part of the control measures for health and safety at work.

Course Features:

✅ 100% Online Training

✅ Access anywhere

✅ Same day digital certificate

✅ Unlimited assessment attempts

✅ Developed by health and safety professionals

✅ Accredited by Certification Service and assured by RoSPA Qualifications

What You'll Learn:

On completion of this course, learners will understand:

✅ The role of PPE in health and safety at work.

✅ The regulations that cover the selection, use, and maintenance of PPE for work activities.

✅ The duties of employers, the self-employed, and employees at all levels in relation to the selection, use, and maintenance of PPE.

✅ The importance of supervision for the safe selection, use, and maintenance of PPE.

✅ How to carry out a risk assessment that includes the safe selection, use, and maintenance of PPE.

✅ How to select the correct PPE, including design, standards, suitability for the wearer, and compatibility with other PPE.

✅ The legal duties of manufacturers and suppliers of PPE.

✅ The importance of training, instruction, and information on the safe use and maintenance of PPE.

✅ The different types of PPE and their uses and limitations.

✅ Storage requirements for PPE.

✅ Maintenance, inspection, cleaning, and repair of PPE.

✅ PPE use in emergencies.

Training You Can Trust

✅ Accredited by Certification Service

All of our courses are accredited by the Certification Service, conforming to universally accepted Continuing Professional Development guidelines.

✅ Assured by RoSPA Qualifications

This course is also assured by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) through their RoSPA Qualifications Assurance System, providing up-to-date, quality, and content-approved training.

Course Modules:

✅ Introduction to PPE and Legal Requirements

What is PPE at work, equipment not included in the PPE Regulations, the role of PPE in health and safety at work, the hierarchy of controls, regulations that control the selection and use of PPE, and employee responsibilities.

✅ Risk Assessment, and Selecting and Providing PPE

What are risk assessments and who should carry them out, understanding hazard and risk in risk assessment, the five steps of risk assessment, selecting suitable PPE and involving employees, and the duties of manufacturers and suppliers in marking PPE.

✅ The Management and Use of PPE - Part 1

Employer's duty to manage PPE selection, use, maintenance, and storage, case study: failure to manage the use of PPE, risks to and protection for the eyes and face, risks to and protection for the head, risks to and protection for the respiratory system, respiratory protective equipment: fit testing, and risks to and protection for hearing.

✅ The Management and Use of PPE - Part 2

Body, arm, hand, leg, and foot protection, high visibility clothing, use of and key considerations for personal fall protection systems, PPE for work at or near to water, disposable PPE, health surveillance for work activities where PPE is used, maintenance, cleaning, repair, storage, inspections, and examinations of PPE, and information, instruction, training, and emergencies.

Assessment

The online assessment is taken upon completion of the training material. You will be asked 20 multiple-choice questions with a pass mark of 80%. The answers are marked automatically so that you’ll instantly know whether you passed. If you don't pass, don't worry! You can take the test as many times as you need at no extra charge.

🎉📜✨ After finishing this course, your certificate of accomplishment will look like this: