- Language: English
- Duration: 50 minutes
* Available in French
PPE is Personal Protective Equipment worn by an individual to minimize exposure to specific occupational hazards. This online course is designed to provide participants with knowledge of personal protective equipment, or PPE, requirements and to ensure that all employees, contractors and visitors are equipped with proper PPE to reduce exposure to hazards.
Upon completing this online course, participants should:
- Understand basic PPE requirements including; eye protection, proper footwear and clothing, and hand, hearing and head protection. Be able to identify when there is a need for additional PPE in situations such as; welding, grinding, cutting and burning, electrical protection, respiratory protection, fall arrest and chemical handling
- Understand procedures for the proper selection, use, inspection and maintenance for PPE
- Be familiar with worker and supervisor responsibilities relating to PPE, along with all relevant legislation
- Be aware of the limitations of some aspects of personal protective equipment
*It is important to note that completion of this course does not provide comprehensive training for every type of protective equipment. Employers may have to provide further training, depending on the PPE employees are required to wear.
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About Industrial Safety Trainers
We at Industrial Safety Trainers believe that we can make a difference. We provide training and consulting services that will change the way workers look at safety in the workplace. We offer a very unique way of training; a discussion based method of learning. Our training team is a highly skilled group of certified professionals with a wealth of industry experience and work related background but most importantly, they are passionate about safety training. Our support staff strives to understand our client realities and through collaboration and purposeful listening ensures facilitation of each specific training or consulting request. Each team member works tirelessly to make the registration process for training courses easy and enjoyable.
We operate offices out of Barrie and Ottawa. Industrial Safety Trainers is becoming one of the largest training providers in Canada. Training can take place at a variety of different training venues such as our state of the art mobile training center called the Safety Bus, our conference centers located at either our head office in Barrie or our new training centre in Ottawa, along with other locations that we feel are appropriate for training courses to be delivered.
“We believe the goal of making a workplace safe should not be a burden to the employer, it should be easy and affordable. We strive to ensure that our clients are educated about the applicable provincial and federal safety laws and how they should be applied.”