PPE Regulations Update
Posted on 28th February 2022 at 12:30
On 6 April 2022 the Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (PPER 2022) will come into force. The updated regulations extend PPE duties to include the free of charge provision of PPE to workers not just employees.
The regulations stated that if a risk assessment indicates that PPE is required, employers must ensure their workers have sufficient information, instruction, and training on the use of PPE. Workers have a duty to use the PPE in accordance with their training and instruction, and ensure it is returned. The employer will be responsible for the maintenance, storage and replacement of any PPE they provide.
Worker means ‘an individual who has entered into or works under;
(a) a contract of employment; or
(b) any other contract, whether express or implied and (if it is express) whether oral or in writing, whereby the individual undertakes to do or perform personally any work or services for another party to the contract whose status is not by virtue of the contract that of a client or customer of any profession or business undertaking carried on by the individual.
Employers need to ensure suitable PPE is:
provided
compatible
maintained
correctly stored
used properly
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