We are inundated by acronyms and erroneous interpretations, for example there is who writes on its site that EC means European Community instead European Conformity, and we could continue taking the English acronyms that are very difficult to understand, arriving to completely wrong considerations.
However initials are very important and we must live with them, so we seek to learn the most important and between these PPE is certainly one that we should know well because it concerns all of us.
Personal Protection Equipment, that is something designed and constructed to protect us from some working and domestic dangers.
Are PPE the gardening gloves, the sumpguards of firefighters, the working aprons and the protective helmets for the shipyards, sunglasses and gloves that resist temperatures of hundreds of Celsius degrees, and a huge number of other items more or less complex, but all intended to protect ourselves.
To be able to evaluate the value, the need and the appropriate decision, it is necessary to compare our protection and specific needs to the capacity of the PPE which we use. This comparisons and this choices are not easy operations, but there is something that has to be common to all these products: the EC mark.
There can be no PPE without EC mark, and this must conform to the directives, must be clearly visible on the product or its packaging and must be available of a series of information, both on the characteristics of protection and on the producer, and also of who has introduced the product in the market.
These devices are always the result of a work of research and analysis and they can never result from improvisation or references, because they will interact with the health and safety of the people who will use them.
Therefore in the selection of the PPE it is important to consider your needs and if you are not certain ask for help some expert in security, in our country there are many, and mainly…… look at the EC mark.
