Personal Protection Classes

General Personal Protection Equipment Overview

Course Length: 2 Hours

The purpose of this class is to enable students to gain knowledge of general personal protection equipment (PPE) available. Topics covered include basic PPE types, protection levels, limitations, material types, performance criteria, selection, use and care, hazard recognition, medical monitoring, policy, and resources available.

Hearing Conservation

Course Length: 1 Hour

The purpose of this class is to enable the student to gain an understanding of the health effects of noise, type and benefits of controls, proper fit, usage and maintenance of hearing protection, medical monitoring requirements, worksite noise levels and controls to reduce and prevent damaging levels of noise exposure.

Respiratory Protection

Course Length: 1 Hour

The purpose of this class is to enable the student to gain an understanding of the proper use and care of the required or requested respirator, recognition of specific air contaminant hazards, and medical monitoring requirements. All employees are required to complete the training prior to wearing respirators at the time of the quantitative fit-test.

EHS will gladly create special training and schedule classes for your department or group. Contact EHS at Ext. 27018 for more information about setting up special training.