Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)
Employers should use personal protective equipment (PPE) as a last resort, after they have carried out a risk assessment and put in place other, collective, measures to eliminate or control risks to workers’ health and safety. The HSE advises that PPE may need to be used where hazards still remain after engineering controls and safe systems of work have been applied to deal with the risk of injury from:
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