Video Overview
Hand and Foot Protection: PPE Employee Essentials - Spanish
Running Time: 13:00
General industry workplaces are full of hazards that employees are exposed to everyday. Some hazards, like falling or flying objects, are easy to identify while others, such as odorless gasses that could harm your respiratory system or repetitive exposure to loud noises that can gradually damage your hearing over time, are not.
To help protect employees from hazards, OSHA requires employers to assess their workplace and then provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to their employees and train them on how to wear, maintain, and properly store their PPE.
Hand and Foot Protection: PPE Employee Essentials - Spanish covers the following required areas of PPE:
Hand protection
Foot protection
Hand and Foot Protection: PPE Employee Essentials - Spanish will help employees understand the need for PPE and how to properly don, doff, adjust, wear and care for their PPE. It will also teach employees how to recognize the hazards each piece of PPE is designed to protect them against, so they have the knowledge they need to always wear the right PPE the right way.
PPE is the general industry employee’s last line of defense to avoid injury on the job.