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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Training Course


This Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Training course helps learners understand how to use PPE safely and correctly. The course is designed to provide employers, senior staff, and employees with a good understanding of the role of PPE for work activities. It outlines the responsibilities of employers and employees in the safe selection, use, supervision, maintenance, and storage of PPE, and explains the key principles and practices that help to ensure PPE is an effective part of the management of health and safety at work.

The course outlines the legal duties placed on employers, the self-employed, and employees at all levels in relation to PPE. It explains the position of PPE in the hierarchy of control, emphasizing that PPE should always be used in conjunction with other control measures where possible. With this knowledge, learners will understand the correct selection and use of PPE, which is vital for ensuring it is an effective part of the control measures for health and safety at work. 


Course Features:

✅ 100% Online Training

✅ Access anywhere

✅ Same day digital certificate

✅ Unlimited assessment attempts

✅ Developed by health and safety professionals

✅ Accredited by CPD and assured by RoSPA Qualifications


What You'll Learn:

On completion of this course, learners will understand:

✅ The role of PPE in health and safety at work.

✅ The regulations that cover the selection, use, and maintenance of PPE for work activities.

✅ The duties of employers, the self-employed, and employees at all levels in relation to the selection, use, and maintenance of PPE.

✅ The importance of supervision for the safe selection, use, and maintenance of PPE.

✅ How to carry out a risk assessment that includes the safe selection, use, and maintenance of PPE.

✅ How to select the correct PPE, including design, standards, suitability for the wearer, and compatibility with other PPE.

✅ The legal duties of manufacturers and suppliers of PPE.

✅ The importance of training, instruction, and information on the safe use and maintenance of PPE.

✅ The different types of PPE and their uses and limitations.

✅ Storage requirements for PPE.

✅ Maintenance, inspection, cleaning, and repair of PPE.

Health surveillance.

✅ PPE use in emergencies.

Training You Can Trust

✅ Accredited by CPD

 

All of our courses are accredited by the CPD Certification Service, conforming to universally accepted Continuing Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

 

✅  Assured by RoSPA Qualifications

 

This course is also assured by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) through their RoSPA Qualifications Assurance System, providing up-to-date, quality, and content-approved training.

 

Course Modules:

 

✅ Introduction to PPE and Legal Requirements

✅ Risk Assessment, and Selecting and Providing PPE

✅ The Management and Use of PPE - Part 1

✅ The Management and Use of PPE - Part 2