A PPE policy template that puts PPE after other controls, involves workers in choosing it, and covers free issue, records, training, storage and reporting defects.
This policy template is supplied in fully editable MS Word format and can be easily customised and edited. The document uses pre-defined style formatting throughout, with all text in Calibri font for improved readability.
The following document labelling is included in the footer:
- Policy number and title
- Information-classification
- Version
- Page number / total pages
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PPE Policy Template
A PPE policy template setting out the commitment to protect workers from exposure to workplace hazards and the risk of injury through the appropriate use of personal protective equipment.
The policy has Approved By and Date Approved fields and carries a Public information classification, so it can be shared with workers, clients and other interested parties.
What the PPE Policy Covers
- Duties - assessing the need for PPE, providing, maintaining and storing it, and giving information, instruction and training
- Risk assessment first - PPE issued only after a risk assessment and after other reasonably practicable controls
- When PPE is used - provided, used and maintained where it is needed to reduce the risk of injury or illness
- Selection - workers involved where practicable, with PPE chosen for suitability, effectiveness, fit, comfort, durability and compatibility
- Conformity - all PPE supplied carrying the required conformity marking
- Free of charge - PPE issued to workers free of charge
- Records and training - the issue of PPE recorded, and training on its correct use
- Storage - storage facilities for PPE when not in use, where required
- Workers' duties - using PPE as instructed, keeping it in good order and reporting loss or defects
Written to Be Shared
Like every alphaZ policy, this is written as a public policy statement that can be shared openly with workers, customers, suppliers and assessors. The internal detail of how it is carried out belongs in your procedures.
Using the Policy
Add your company name and logo, check each commitment matches what your organisation does and edit any that do not, then approve and date the policy and share it with workers and anyone else who needs to see it.
Who Needs a PPE Policy?
Any organisation whose risk assessments identify a need for personal protective equipment.
Works with the PPE Procedure
The PP-7-01 Safe Use and Management of PPE Policy Procedure sets out the procedure, PPE issue can be recorded on the F-HS1 PPE Issue Register and F-HS2 Employee PPE Issue Sheet, and the TT-7-01 Safe Use and Management of PPE toolbox talk briefs workers.
Document Control
The footer carries the policy number and title, information classification, version and page numbers, and the approval fields record who approved the policy and when, so it can be controlled with the rest of your management system documents and listed on a document register such as the F-IMS20 Document Register.
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