Training, PPE

Overview

The employer must provide training to each employee who is required to use Personal Protective Equipment. Each employee must be trained to know at least the following:

1. When PPE is necessary;
2. What PPE is necessary;
3. How to properly don, doff, adjust and wear PPE;
4. The limitations of the PPE; and,
5. The proper care, maintenance, useful life and disposal of the PPE.

Each affected employee must demonstrate an understanding of the training and the ability to use PPE properly before being allowed to perform work requiring the use of PPE. When the employer has reason to believe that any affected employee who has already been trained does not have the understanding and skill required, the employer must retrain the employee.

Circumstances where retraining is required:

1. Changes in the workplace render previous training obsolete; or
2. Changes in the types of PPE to be used render previous training obsolete; or
3. Inadequacies in an affected employee’s knowledge or use of assigned PPE indicate that the employee has not retained the required understanding or skill.