What Is Personal Protective Equipment?

Personal protective equipment refers to personal protective equipment provided to protect workers from accidents and occupational hazards during the labor production process, which directly protects the human body; in contrast, industrial protective equipment, not direct Protects the human body.

Personal protective equipment

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(1) Head protection: wear

Protective helmet

At the production site, in order to prevent accidental heavy objects from falling and hurting, accidentally hitting the head during production, or to prevent pollution by harmful substances, workers should wear safety protective helmets. Multi-purpose protective helmet

Head protection

Head protection is to prevent head injuries when falling from a height of 2m ~ 3m and head injuries in daily work. The main products are helmets and safety helmets. Divided into FRP helmets, ABS helmets, PE helmets by material.

Respiratory protection

Mainly divided into two categories: filter type and isolation type

Filter-type respiratory protective equipment is a type of respiratory protective equipment that uses filtering materials to filter out toxic and harmful substances in the air and converts polluted air into clean air for people to breathe. Such as dust respirator, respirator and filter respirator.

Isolated respiratory protective equipment is based on the principle of isolation, to isolate personnel's respiratory organs, eyes and face from the polluted air from the outside world, and rely on the air source carried by themselves or the air duct to introduce clean air outside the polluted environment to supply air. Protect personnel's normal breathing and respiratory protective equipment, also known as isolated gas masks, oxygen-generating gas masks, long-pipe respirators and diving masks.

The use of filter-type respiratory protective equipment is subject to environmental restrictions. When there are harmful substances in the environment that cannot be filtered out by the filter material, or the oxygen content is less than 18%, or the concentration of toxic and hazardous substances is high (> 1%), In use, isolated respiratory protective equipment should be used in this environment.

Eye protection

It is used to protect the eyes and face of workers and prevent external injuries. Divided into protective glasses for welding, protective glasses for furnaces and kiln, anti-impact protective glasses, microwave protective glasses, laser protective glasses and X-ray, chemical, dustproof and other protective glasses.

Hearing protection

It refers to the protection against injuries suffered when working in an environment of more than 90dB (A) for a long time or 115dB (A) for a short time.

Hearing protection includes earplugs, earmuffs and helmets.

Hearing protection products include: low-pressure foamed earbuds with cords, pagoda earbuds with cords, earbuds with cords, Christmas tree earbuds, Christmas tree earbuds with cord, earbuds with cord, economical hard hat earmuffs, lightweight Ear muffs, pagoda-type earplugs, protective ear muffs.

Foot protection

Foot protection means protecting your feet from injury during work.

Hand protection

Hand protection refers to protecting hands from injury during work, mainly including acid and alkali resistant gloves, electrical insulation sleeves, welding gloves, X-ray gloves, asbestos gloves, high temperature resistant gloves, cut resistant nitrile gloves, etc. Products made by internationally renowned manufacturers such as Kimberly are mainstream supplies for protection today.

Body protection

It is used to protect employees from physical and chemical factors in the working environment. Mainly divided into two types of special protective clothing and general work clothing.

Anti-fall gear

Used to prevent falling accidents. There are safety belts, safety ropes and safety nets.

skin care products

For protection of exposed skin. Divided into skin creams and detergents.