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PPE CPE:
key advantages in risk prevention.
PPE : Personal Protective Equipment.
PPE are defined as any device or means intended to be worn or held by one person to protect itself against one or several
risks liable to threaten its safety or its security.
CPE: Collective protective
equipment.
Collective protective equipment for preventing electrical hazards
contains all the products that close off the hazard by:
- Distance (marking, signs),
- Obstacles (covers, screen, barrier),
- Insulation Onsulating blankets, insulating caps, etc.).
CPE must comply with the standards in force.
PPE within the framework The personal protective equipment have to be in compliance with
of electrical safety the requirements of the European Directive :
recommendations.
89/3911CEE, on the introduction of measures to encourage
"Personal Protective Equipment is used to protect individuals who improvements in the safety and health of workers at work.
work on or near an installation that presents an electrical hazard."
89/655/CEE and 89/656/CEE, on the minimum health and safety
Equipment complying with the standards in force and appropriate requirements for the use by workers of personal protective
for the type of operation and voltage level of the installation equipment at the workplace.
must be used.
E89/686/CEE, on the approximation of the laws of the (
PPEcheck
Member States relating to personal protective eqUipment
- Every PPE must be verified at least (eE marking).
visually before and after every
use. In practice,they define:
• The protections adapted to the kind of risk,
- Regular tests must be • The highest level of protection pOSSible,
made by qualified persons • The comfort, the ergonomics and the quality of the equipment,
and at least annually. • The annual verffication of PPE by acompetent individual.
- If the slightest doubt ex- The obligations for using PPEs in companies are defined by
ists the equipment must the European Directive 89/656.
be reformed and replaced
at once.
• To give free of charge and in a personal way equipment necessary and
adapted to the risks,
• To watch over their actual use,
• To ensure the necessary replacement as well as the maintenance and
the compliance,
• To inform the users of the risks against whom they are protected.
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key advantages in risk prevention.
PPE : Personal Protective Equipment.
PPE are defined as any device or means intended to be worn or held by one person to protect itself against one or several
risks liable to threaten its safety or its security.
CPE: Collective protective
equipment.
Collective protective equipment for preventing electrical hazards
contains all the products that close off the hazard by:
- Distance (marking, signs),
- Obstacles (covers, screen, barrier),
- Insulation Onsulating blankets, insulating caps, etc.).
CPE must comply with the standards in force.
PPE within the framework The personal protective equipment have to be in compliance with
of electrical safety the requirements of the European Directive :
recommendations.
89/3911CEE, on the introduction of measures to encourage
"Personal Protective Equipment is used to protect individuals who improvements in the safety and health of workers at work.
work on or near an installation that presents an electrical hazard."
89/655/CEE and 89/656/CEE, on the minimum health and safety
Equipment complying with the standards in force and appropriate requirements for the use by workers of personal protective
for the type of operation and voltage level of the installation equipment at the workplace.
must be used.
E89/686/CEE, on the approximation of the laws of the (
PPEcheck
Member States relating to personal protective eqUipment
- Every PPE must be verified at least (eE marking).
visually before and after every
use. In practice,they define:
• The protections adapted to the kind of risk,
- Regular tests must be • The highest level of protection pOSSible,
made by qualified persons • The comfort, the ergonomics and the quality of the equipment,
and at least annually. • The annual verffication of PPE by acompetent individual.
- If the slightest doubt ex- The obligations for using PPEs in companies are defined by
ists the equipment must the European Directive 89/656.
be reformed and replaced
at once.
• To give free of charge and in a personal way equipment necessary and
adapted to the risks,
• To watch over their actual use,
• To ensure the necessary replacement as well as the maintenance and
the compliance,
• To inform the users of the risks against whom they are protected.
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