What personal protective equipment should management issue and employee’s use?
Personal protective equipment (PPE) includes clothing and other devices (such as respirators) designed to serve or be worn as a barrier against work place hazards. Personal protective equipment should not be used without first implementing the appropriate engineering, work practice, and administrative controls (see illustration of Hazard Control Hiearchy below). A risk assessment such as a Job Hazard Analysis needs to be conducted to evaluate the risk to ARS employees who perform activities that may result in a high risk of exposure to, or for spreading, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) and pandemic influenza. The results of that risk assessment which will based upon the nature of the hazard and the activities or tasks performed by an employee(s) in which occupational exposure occurs.
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