How to Encourage Workers to Wear PPE

Worker are confronted with difficult tasks and hazard exposures in a hazardous environment. Safety of employees is an important matter in an organization and personal protection equipment can aid workers to avoid injuries, however many a times workers tend not to wear them. To improve the safety of your employees, it is the responsibility of an employer to spread the importance of PPE in your work place.

To encourage workers to wear PPE, there are certain steps you can implement at your work place like:

• Developing and distributing guidelines and regulations on wearing PPE at hazardous work sites.

• Guiding employees to understand how to use PPE properly.

• Posting messages to remind workers to wear PPE around the premises.

• Using images and diagrams to illustrate employees about the proper as well as unsafe ways of using PPE.

• Using strong and creative slogans to wear PPE.

• Providing employees with personal storage to keep their PPE.

The above are some of the few steps employers can implement at their work places to encourage their employees to wear personal protection equipment at hazardous sites. This would help them reduce risks as well as work related injuries and promote profits.