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[QUOTE="Ajax123, post: 418376, member: 12267"] I am not certain there is any specific requirement for PPE in law. It is the responsibility of the employee to take reasonable precaustions for their health and safety on site based on risk assesment of the tasks in question. It is the responsibility of the employer to ensure that Risk assesments are carried out and that PPE is provided for such tasks as are considered appropriate for example if you work in a task which holds a risk that something might fall on your head you mitigate the risk of this happening first of all by trying to remove the risk altogether such as making the area where the risk is happening a no go area for non essential people. If the risk cannot be eliminated then risk management would dictate that you wear a hard hat. It would usually be your contractual obligation to abide by your employers reasonable requests to use appropriate PPE. In practice this means no hat no vest no boots no job. Many sites allow Roofers to dispense with hats because from a practical point of view the wearing of the hat presents a greater risk cos the blooming things keep falling off. The usual minimum in terms of site standards are hard hat high viz and safety boots. My company insists on Eye protection and gloves as well. [/QUOTE]
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