PAPERmaking! g FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF PAPER TECHNOLOGY ® Volume 11, Number 2, 2025
12. YOUR FAMILY NEEDS YOU Don’t take risks with your health and safety. Wearing PPE is an extra way to stay safe at work, so you can go home. 13. YOUR JOB IS NOT WORTH DYING FOR PPE isn’t the only safety measure needed at work, but it plays a large part in the collective health and safety system that will keep you safe. 14. IT’S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY Your employer has a duty to provide you with PPE and make sure you wear it. But management can’t watch you at all times. It’s your responsibility to use the PPE provided and wear it correctly. 15. IT’S YOUR DUTY It’s also your duty. Both employees and the self-employed have a responsibility to wear and use PPE correctly. 16. IT’S NOT OPTIONAL Wearing and using PPE is not a choice. If there is any risk to health and safety not adequately controlled by other means, PPE must be provided. You and your employer need to decide on the best and most suitable PPE for the task, but, by law, whether or not PPE is worn and used is not optional. 17. IT SETS A GOOD EXAMPLE Everyone should wear and use PPE – from owners and managers to visitors and new employees. 18. IT SHOWS YOU CARE Using and wearing the right PPE shows you care about health and safety, about yourself and about your co- workers. 19. IT GIVES A GOOD IMPRESSION It looks professional because it is professional. It shows you have standards and run a safe site. 20. IT’S THE LAW Let’s not forget the legal requirements. Employers must provide PPE where there is a risk to the health and safety of employees, and all employee are required to use and wear their PPE correctly.
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Article 11 – PPE
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