Loading ...Down With PPE?
Safety News Alert posted their Top 10 Safety Stories last week. They polled editors of safety publications and came up with their Top Ten list of safety stories for 2008.
Number six on Top 10 Safety Stories was OSHA’s requirement of Employer’s to pay for their employee’s PPE (Personal Protective Equipment). This went into effect this past May. In a nutshell, if OSHA standards require you to wear PPE – then your employer needs to pay for it. Safety glasses, hard hats, gloves, goggles, safety shoes, welding helmets and, faceshields, chemical protective equipment, and fall protection equipment are some examples of PPE.
Exceptions to this OSHA ruling are as follows, “…specialty safety-toe protective footwear, boots with built-in metatarsal protection, logging boots and everyday work clothes used solely for protection from weather.”
We are curious on how many of you benefited directly by OSHA’s ruling this past year? How many already had employers providing your PPE?
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