Personal Protection Equipment Is Not One-Size-Fits-All
I have often been asked why we don’t supply Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) with our spill kits as standard equipment.
As its name implies, such equipment is meant to be tailored not just to the individual, but also to suit that particular individual’s field of work. It’s important to correctly specify the PPE to match the chemicals that have been spilt. I have seen many cases of spill kits containing PPE which was inappropriate for the chemicals stored in that area. It would be better to have not have any PPE, than the wrong PPE, which may provide a false sense of protection and potentially expose the individual to hazardous situations. Unless we have been given a clear idea of the chemicals the spill kit is intended to handle, we simply can’t specify which PPE is required.
