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Personal protective equipment definition

What does Personal protective equipment mean? Personal protective equipment (PPE) refers, in workplace safety practice, to equipment or clothing intended to be worn or held to protect an individual from one or more risks to their health or safety, for example hard hats, eye protection, respirators, gloves and safety footwear. The term is defined in legislation. In Great Britain, the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 (as amended in 2022) adopt a broad definition that includes protective clothing and related accessories, while excluding ordinary workwear not designed for protection and other specified items. Northern Ireland has parallel provisions in the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations...

Workplace PPE liability: negligence post-ERRA 2013, the role of the 1992 Regulations and PUWER, key authorities, and the pre-2013 breach of statutory duty regime

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Post 1 October 2013

On 1 October 2013, section 69 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (ERRA 2013) took effect. From that day, Civil liability for Workplace injuries no longer flows automatically from breach of a statutory duty unless the specific regulation expressly creates it. The Personal protective equipment at Work Regulations 1992, SI 1992/2966, contain no such route to civil liability. Accordingly, claimant representatives must instead frame claims in negligence, using any regulatory breach as evidential support. Although it is no longer proper to found a cause of action solely on contravention of a regulation, claimant practitioners will still cite, and often quote, the relevant statutory provisions as articulating the expected standard of care. Accordingly, regulatory duties still play a significant role, operating as benchmarks of expected care within negligence claims rather than as independent grounds of civil liability. In practice, and frequently within statements of case, those regulations can be invoked as describing the processes for identifying and assessing risk, and for adopting measures in response to that assessment...

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