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Maryvonne GUIDON-LE BRUN: Senior environmental, health and safety engineer, Tlazol
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The conclusion of your workplace risk assessment requires you to wear personal protective equipment for certain operations. Wearing this PPE entails obligations for the employers and employees concerned, for both safety and regulatory reasons. Awareness of these obligations on the part of all concerned is an important factor in the effectiveness of the measures taken.
This fact sheet explains :
the minimum legal and regulatory concepts that employers and employees need to know about PPE obligations;
practices for applying these rules.
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