Employer Responsibilities
An employer must ensure employees use appropriate personal protective equipment.
Employers are responsible for ensuring all PPE is cleaned and ready for use.
- Your employer must make PPE available to you in the appropriate size and at no cost.
- Non-latex alternatives must be made available to employees who have allergic sensitivity to latex.
- Employers must also properly clean, launder, repair, replace, or dispose of contaminated PPE as needed at no cost to the employee.
Employee Responsibilities
Employees should never take contaminated clothing home to be washed. This can increase the chance of accidental exposure to themselves and their family.
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
7-3. The employer must make PPE available to you _____.
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