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Article: Personal protective equipment: misplaced trust in PPE can lead many construction workers straight to the emergency room.(High on Safety)
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- Walls & Ceilings
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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There aren't many topics drier than personal protective equipment when face to face with 20 laborers in a job trailer. I try to make a solid triangular connection between the worker, his specific activities and his PPE. A slight change in any one of these factors can have disastrous results. A hard hat worn incorrectly during a building demolition may actually be more hazardous than that same hard hat sitting on top of a gangbox. I have enough personal accident statistics to prove it.
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Before placing the hard hat on his head, a worker must be aware of ANSI Z89.1 and Z89.2 (the standards to which that equipment was designed and ...