Middle School Safety & Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Student Materials

1. Middle School Safety & Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Student Materials

2. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Middle School Safety & PPE Student Materials 1. PPE Identification • You are given a series of pictures showing workers wearing various PPE. • Study each picture thoroughly. • List all the PPE that you can identify. • Suggest what hazard each PPE is protecting the worker against. • Discuss how each PPE work to protect the worker.

3. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Middle School Safety & PPE Student Materials Identify and List all the PPE in the Pictures Figure 1.1: A lab tech pours a very toxic and corrosive liquid. To protect himself he wears a number of PPE.

4. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Middle School Safety & PPE Student Materials Identify and List all the PPE in the Pictures Figure 1.2: A biologist is working with a very dangerous chemicals. The chemicals are known to be corrosive, reactive and can change to vapor easily. He wears the PPE as shown.

5. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Middle School Safety & PPE Student Materials Identify and List all the PPE in the Pictures Figure 1.3: A chemist is working with chemicals that are very toxic, corrosive, and reactive. Also, when they react, they produce heat. She therefore wears the PPE in the picture.

6. Middle School Safety & PPE Student Materials Personal Protective Equipment Suggestions 2. PPE Suggestions • Your are a Lab Safety Manager. • You are given a series of pictures showing different hazardous situations. • Suggest the best PPE, from the choices given, that would be required to prevent, eliminate or reduce injury to workers.

7. Choose the Best PPE Middle School Safety & PPE Student Materials Answer Figure 2.1: Workers evacuating a room on fire. There is a lot of smoke and fumes in the air.

8. Middle School Safety & PPE Student Materials Choose the Best PPE Answer Figure 2.2: A safety sign warning workers that the chemical is corrosive (damages the skin upon contact).

9. Middle School Safety & PPE Student Materials Choose the Best PPE Answer Figure 2.3: A safety placard warning worker that a laser is in use and special eye protection is required.

10. Middle School Safety & PPE Student Materials Choose the Best PPE Answer Figure 2.4: A cartoon of a worker putting out a fire with an extinguisher.

11. Middle School Safety & PPE Student Materials Choose the Best PPE Answer Figure 2.5: A safety sign warning that hazards such as dust or vapor present and that the worker need to wear respiratory protection.

12. Middle School Safety & PPE Student Materials Choose the Best PPE Answer Figure 2.6: A cartoon representation of type of chemicals (corrosive, toxic, poisonous and reactive) that are in use in the workplace.

13. Middle School Safety & PPE Student Materials Choose the Best PPE Answer Figure 2.7: A worker washes his eye at an Eye-wash Station after come chemical he was pouring splashed into his eye. What should he have worn to prevent this?

14. Middle School Safety & PPE Student Materials Choose the Best PPE Answer Figure 2.8: A safety warning sign indicating that there is the risk of respiratory hazards in the area.