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IMPORTANCE OF PPE:
Safety is a major issue for day laborers and skilled laborers. Each year, accidents happen frequently in the
construction industry and often times it is due to the absence of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) or
failure to wear the provided PPE.
PPE is equipment that will protect workers against health or safety risks on the job. The purpose is to
reduce employee exposure to hazards when engineering and administrative controls are not feasible or
effective to reduce these risks to acceptable levels. These hazard risks can be anything from wet floors to
falling debris and everything in between.
Using PPE, and wearing it properly, is vital to avoid unnecessary injury in the workplace. Choosing not to
wear PPE can be dangerous especially when it could save your life.
SAFETY AT
WORK
WHAT ARE THE BUSINESS BENEFITS OF INVESTING IN PPE? PPE ESSENTIALS
1. Avoid and reduce injury and sickness – PPE reduces the effects of injury and can prevent accidents
and injury from happening at all. By lowering these risks, sickness absence is reduced and the headache
of paperwork and time involved reporting is avoided.
2. Fulfill legal health and safety obligations – avoiding accidents, investigations and prosecutions.
3. Looking after workers – Healthy and safe workers are also happy and productive ones. Keeping
your staff happy results in increased productivity, higher staff morale, lower staff turnover and reduced
sickness absence. Companies that adopt best practice also attract new talent and create brand loyalty by
sending a positive image to customers.
4. Avoid HSE investigations – by staying compliant, you avoid prosecutions (for the company and its
Directors), fines and legal fees, compensation payouts and costs to the business of the associated bad
press.
5. Cost savings – the money invested in PPE is covered by savings gained from other benefits such as
lower staff turnover, a reduction in sickness absence and avoiding costs relating to prosecutions.
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