The Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

The use of personal protective equipment is essential in all the work to ensure the safety and physical integrity of workers. The construction sector is one of the riskiest in terms of job security.

The important protective equipment:

Safety boots: mandatory requirement in all the work; you need to buy steel-toed boots.

Reflective vest: mandatory requirement in all the work, it serves to identify the workers and make them more visible when operating heavy machinery, thus avoiding accidents accident or shock. It is customary to assign a different color to the foreman to easily recognize it.

Safety glasses: impact resistant goggles, necessary for jobs where there is a risk of splashing or scattering fragments (chopped concrete, foundries, use of grinder, renderings, etc.).

Gloves: for electro genic welding gloves should be worn leather for generic use is sufficient gloves.

Mask: are necessary when you need to work with dust or toxic gases. In particular, workers must wear masks when doing the cleanup of the building, when handling sacks of cement or the like, to make the filling sanding work or using materials that emit harmful gases.

Earplugs/earmuffs: to work in noisy conditions. Necessary for the operation of cement trucks, forklifts, jackhammers, self-drilling pistol, among others.