The Selection and Use of Electrical Insulating Gloves of Electricians ...

The apparently oversimplified guideline may be of limited uses. While it is true that somejobs are inherently more dangerous than others, modern accident researchers opt the viewthat incidents are multiple causation and root causes often relate to the management system(Heinrich, Petersen and Roos, 1980). Chmiel (2000) further suggested that workplace couldinvolve various environmental and social conditions, such as noise, heat, illumination, longhours and production targets. It is important to investigate and conduct assessment onindividual job process to identify effective protective equipment.2.2.5 Selection and Use of PPEThe Department of Employment of Queensland Government has prepared an industrialguideline, Workplace Health and Safety Management Advisory Standard 2000 Supplement1 – Personal Protective Equipment, to guide the selection of PPE. Key selection factors are:• Risk assessment of the work process.• Matching the acceptable risk level and the performance requirement of PPE.• Ensure the selected PPE is compatible with other types of PPE being adopted inthe same process.• Comfort and fitness• Effect of heatStull (1998) further suggested a checklist approach in the selection and use of PPE asshown in Table 524