About This Course and Where the PPE Rules Live
What this course covers, what it does not award, and the two places in the OSHA standards where PPE and lifesaving equipment rules are written.
9 min
Activities: 0 of 2
This course is awareness training aligned with the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rules for personal protective equipment (PPE) and lifesaving equipment. It is written for workers and supervisors in general industry and in construction, including people who work over or near water: on bridges, piers, docks, dams and waterfront sites.
You will learn what the rules require of the employer and of you, how to recognize the right equipment, how to inspect and care for it, and what to do when equipment is missing or damaged.
Two sets of rules
OSHA standards are in Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Two parts matter here:
- 29 CFR 1910 Subpart I — Personal Protective Equipment, for general industry: factories, warehouses, utilities, maintenance shops, laboratories and most other workplaces that are not construction.
- 29 CFR 1926 Subpart E — Personal Protective and Life Saving Equipment, for construction work: building, altering, repairing, painting and demolishing structures.
The two subparts share most ideas, but they are written differently. Construction has extra sections on lifesaving equipment, including the rule for working over or near water. Module 4 compares the two and Module 5 covers water.
What each module covers
The general duties: hazard assessment, written certification, payment, training, employee-owned PPE.
A worker finishes this course and asks for an OSHA 10-hour card. What is the correct answer?
Which rules apply?
Match each workplace to the part of the OSHA standards that usually covers its PPE.
- A packaging plant replacing worn conveyor belts
- A crew building a new bridge deck over a river
- A company running its first PPE review in a US state