Vaxia recommends the use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for workers’ safety
From healthcare units to laboratories to precarious construction sites, the one common thing affecting workers’ health conditions and productivity is inadequate safety precautions. Industrial processes at factories, plants and other work sites involve risk factors, which at times might be life threatening.
As an organization/department head, you must ensure the availability of requisite personal protective equipment (PPE) for your employees. But, that might not be enough. It can be seen that despite due arrangement of safety supplies, workers get injured or encounter accidents almost every day at hazardous work areas.
One of the major reasons behind such instances of workplace mishap is the lapse that remains between procuring and storing PPE, and ensuring its regularized use.
In order to prevent accidents at manufacturing locations or construction areas, it is imperative that your employees understand the value and necessity of taking proper protective measures while at work. These might be items like protective clothing, safety shoes, safety glasses, gloves, helmet, fall protection etc. depending on the industry, location or surrounding conditions. Once workers are aware of their responsibility towards their own safety, real change can take place.
Moreover, let’s not forget that you are legally liable for maintaining the safety standards in your organization.
Thus, to control hazards or minimize risk, the on-site supervisor needs to:
- Spread this very awareness among employees
- Make sure PPE is in use everywhere during work
How to ensure the proper practice of PPE?
- Promote the importance of using the equipment before expecting everyone to practise routine application
- Provide proper knowledge of using and maintaining PPE through training sessions. Ignorance can prove fatal
- To make usage more disciplined, you can adopt a policy that mandates personal protection (in particular circumstances) and its due maintenance
- Conduct awareness programs conveying the message that ‘safety equipment is a priority, not an option’. This shall help prevent hazards caused by sheer negligence