PPE Health and Safety Regulations
Any responsible business will want to limit any threat to their employees as a matter of course, but as a legal requirement, non-compliance can have quite serious consequences. You never want to think about a serious accident in your workplace, but a healthy touch of realism is vital, because if you don't keep your staff safe, you could be to blame for someone's injury, a hospital visit - or perhaps even worse. What is personal protective equipment? PPE can include a wide range of items, including high visibility clothing, tough workwear items such as steel toe capped boots, or accessories such as hard hats. In essence, it's any item that will help to counteract any potentially harmful effect that equipment, material or processes can pose, where these things are integral to a job role and therefore cannot be avoided in entirety. Say for example that you're a building company and you employ people to work on building sites and construction projects; this is a job full o