Personal Protective Equipment, or PPE for short is used to protect Florida bio-medical waste management workers and other employees from getting infected or injured. The OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) has strict rules and guidelines about PPE that make sure those wearing it are safe and protected.
Personal Protective Equipment is very varied, depending on the industry, but in bio-medical waste management it usually includes disposable latex or nitrile gloves, eye protection goggles, face masks, gowns or aprons and lab coats. To make sure it is effective and that it works like it should, PPE should be tested. This is done in a lab setting, without this test, there is a risk that the PPE someone wears will not properly protect that person. In Florida bio-medical waste management, this could mean not only a physical injury, but also a dangerous infectious or disease.
Who Tests PPE?
PPE is tested by a pro PPE testing facility. If you are buying PPE from a previously unverified source, make sure that this is how they check their PPE before they sell it to you. Also, be sure that their PPE is made to meet OSHA standards.
You can reach PPE testing facilities online and have them perform several tests on your equipment to make sure it is operational and will hold to pressure. Of course, there are specific tests for different industries and the PPE used there, including bio-medical waste management.
Next, make sure that the PPE has proper certification and testing information before you purchase it. It should have an OSHA approval stamp somewhere on it, or one from a testing company.
Only give your employees the Personal Protective Equipment that has been thoroughly tested by a professional PPE testing company and is verified by OSHA that it works properly. PPE is literally something that is designed to keep your body safe from a number of dangers, depending on the industry, so you want it to be 100% working.
PPE In Bio-Medical Waste Management
In bio-medical waste management for instance, disposable gloves are the most important piece of PPE. These should be used especially when handing some sharps waste. There are two types of these – latex and nitrile. We would recommend nitrile, although they are a little more expensive and a little less comfortable, if for nothing else than for the fact that when a tear appears on a glove, it is designed to completely rip apart, thus warning you that you should remove it and put on a new one, which is not the case with latex gloves. You might be wearing a damaged latex glove without even knowing and handling dangerous infectious waste.
PPE is important in Florida bio-medical waste management, as much as in any other industry where different hazards are present, but they won’t do you much good if they are not of good quality or are damaged somehow.
