Effective Use of PPE

Course Topics

• The basics of hand protection, along with pairing the right PPE for your specific task.
• How to properly protect your knees while kneeling or working in irregular environments.
• How to avoid back injury, and the importance of wearing prescribed back braces.
• Eye protection, and what to do if your visual PPE impairs your ability to work.
• How to recognize an unsafe auditory environment, and finding appropriate hearing protection to mitigate long-term hearing damage.
• The importance of proper breathing protection. Surgical masks don't usually cut it, folks!
• The basics of proper head protection.

This course also covers the following topics:

Hand Protection

• This video details several simple ways to protect your hands, which are the most commonly injured body part in the workplace. You'll discover multiple types of gloves, a great way to make your coworkers leave you alone, and how big a difference five seconds of prevention can make. You'll also discover something that nobody should ever, ever wear.

Knee Protection

• Knees. They're sort of weird-looking, but that doesn't mean you should mistreat them. This video will discuss multiple simple ways to protect the most vulnerable joint in your body. You'll also see a terrible way to motivate your coworkers, and there might be some random idiocy thrown in here just for laughs. Just because it, a safety video doesn't mean you can't enjoy it.

Back Protection

• Back injuries are among the most debilitating and life-changing injuries a person can sustain. This video covers the proper use of back braces, as well as a couple ways not to use them. You'll also find out how to protect your back without any equipment at all, and you'll probably see something you should never do to anybody stronger than you are.

Eye Protection

• Your eyes can be annoying. They get itchy, and sometimes they look at things you'd rather never have seen. But since eye drops are cheap and you can always look away from weird things, you probably shouldn't permanently destroy your eyeballs. This video will help make sure you protect them properly, and it, way more fun to watch than most of the stuff people post to your social media feed.

Hearing Protection

• In this video you'll learn how easy it is to suffer hearing loss in the workplace, and how to prevent it. You'll also learn the difference between 80 decibels and 85 (which is not as obvious as it should be), and there might be some other stuff in here too. We can't remember.

Respiratory Protection

• Breathing is awesome. You probably do it at least twice a day. Which means you might want to protect your lungs from dust, vapors, fumes, gases, and exceptionally smelly people. This video will show you which kinds of protection to use in which situations, as well as how to use them all correctly. You'll also see some fun things to do at work when you're bored.

Head Protection

• This video will encourage you to keep your brains inside your head, mostly so they won't get cold but also so you won't die. Get ready for a slightly different safety video than you're used to; we got sort of tired of doing things the way we usually do. But be warned , this video gets a little messy. We think you'll have fun watching it, because we sure had fun filming it.