9/10TLE–IA-EIM

Quarter 4 – Module 2 (Week 3 to 4)

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the (Electrical Installation and Maintenance Grade - 9/10)

Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on (Personal Protective Equipment)!

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by

educators both from public and private institutions to assist you, the
teacher or facilitator in helping the learners meet the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum while overcoming their personal, social, and economic
constraints in schooling.

This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and
independent learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore,
this also aims to help learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while
taking into consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies
that will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing
them to manage their own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to
encourage and assist the learners as they do the tasks included in the
module.

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For the learner:

Welcome to the Electrical Installation and Maintenance (9/10) Alternative

Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on (Personal Protective Equipment)!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and
time. You will be enabled to process the contents of the learning resource
while being an active learner.

What I Need to Know

This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help
you master the skills in electrical installation and maintenance. The scope of this
module permits it to be used in many different learning situations. The language
used recognizes the diverse vocabulary level of students. The lessons are arranged
to follow the standard sequence of the course. But the order in which you read
them can be changed to correspond with the textbook you are now using.

The learning competency will be achieved through the learning activities

supported by instruction sheets. Before you read the information sheet or the
lesson and What Is It, answer the pre-test or What I Know, assessment and do the
activities provided to assess yourself and for your teacher to determine that you
have acquired the knowledge necessary to perform the skill require in this learning
competency.

The module contains the lesson:

• Personal Protective Equipment

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. Identify the Personal Protective Equipment used in the electrical
work;
2. Select Personal Protective Equipment; and

3. Appreciate the importance of Personal Protective Equipment as part

of the requirements in electrical works.

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Lesson
Personal Protective
1 Equipment (PPE)

Personal protective equipment, commonly referred to as "PPE", is equipment

worn to minimize exposure to hazards that cause serious workplace injuries and
illnesses. These injuries and illnesses may result from contact with chemical,
radiological, physical, electrical, mechanical, or other workplace hazards. Personal
protective equipment may include items such as gloves, safety glasses and shoes,
earplugs or muffs, hard hats, respirators, or coveralls, vests and full body suits.

What’s In

What can be done to ensure proper use of personal protective equipment?

All personal protective equipment should be safely designed and

constructed, and should be maintained in a clean and reliable fashion. It should fit
comfortably, encouraging worker use. If the personal protective equipment does not
fit properly, it can make the difference between being safely covered or dangerously
exposed. When engineering, work practice, and administrative controls are not
feasible or do not provide sufficient protection, employers must provide personal
protective equipment to their workers and ensure its proper use. Employers are
also required to train each worker required to use personal protective equipment to
know:
 When it is necessary
 What kind is necessary
 How to properly put it on, adjust, wear and take it off
 The limitations of the equipment
 Proper care, maintenance, useful life, and disposal of the equipment

If PPE is to be used, a PPE program should be implemented. This program

should address the hazards present; the selection, maintenance, and use of PPE;
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the training of employees; and monitoring of the program to ensure it’s on going
effectiveness.

Notes to the Teacher

Let the learners to read and understand the learning objectives.
Before going through this module, answer the questions in What I
Know and refer to the answer key for corrections. Do the different
tasks: What’s New, What’s More, What I have Learned, What I can DO,
and the additional activities. Finally, answer the assessment and refer
to the answer key for correction. After doing all the tasks, the teacher
will inform the learner for his/her progress.

What’s New

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 What is It

What is personal protective equipment?

Any clothing, equipment or substance designed to protect a person from

risks of injury or illness. Consists of devices provided to the worker and required to
be worn while performing certain job tasks.

Personal protective equipment, commonly referred to as "PPE", is equipment

worn to minimize exposure to hazards that cause serious workplace injuries and
illnesses. These injuries and illnesses may result from contact with chemical,
radiological, physical, electrical, mechanical, or other workplace hazards. Personal
protective equipment may include items such as gloves, safety glasses and shoes,
earplugs or muffs, hard hats, respirators, or coveralls, vests and full body suits.

The Electrical Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) program provides

requirements to ensure electrical workers are protected from electrical hazards
while working on electrical equipment. Employees who work with electrical
equipment shall be provided with appropriate electrical PPE and are knowledgeable
in the selection, use, limitations, inspection, donning, doffing, and maintenance of
PPE.

This electrical personal protective equipment procedure provides guidelines

for determining when electrical PPE is required and how to select, use and
maintain electrical PPE. This procedure describes electrical hazards, including
electrical shock and burns, arc flash burns, arc-blast impacts, and other potential
electrical safety hazards.

The following are the common Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) use in
any electrical works:

1. Leather Safety Gloves

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 An item made of cloth, rubber, and leather, covering all or part of the
hand and fingers, but allowing independent movement of the fingers.
Usually use by electrician in lifting object and connecting live wires.

2. Hard Hat or Skull Guard

Protect the head from falling debris and sharp objects

3. Safety Goggles

For general purpose use in protecting the eye, especially when using
angle Grinder, drilling machine and other rotating machine that prone to eye
injury.

4. Safety Site shoes

A durable boots or shoes that have a protective reinforcement in the

toe, usually combined with a sole plate, which protect the foot from falling
objects and punctures from below. Traditionally made of steel, the

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 reinforcement can also be made of a composite material, or a plastic such as
thermal polyurethane (TPU). Steel-toe boots are important in the
construction industry and in many industrial settings.

5. Fall Arrest Harness

One size fits all, use to secure electrician from falling

Selecting Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

To ensure that the item of personal protective equipment will provide the level of
protection that is it designed to, PPE should:
 be appropriate for the type of work and give appropriate protection for the
risk
 give adequate protection to the user
 not create additional health or safety risks
 be compatible with other PPE being used (e.g ear muffs with a hard hat)
 fit properly
 be easy to use
 be comfortable
 comply with relevant Standards
 not interfere with any medical conditions of the user

Using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Make sure that:

 personal protective equipment is used in accordance with the
manufacturers’ instructions
 the PPE fits correctly
 workers are instructed and trained in how to use it
 appropriate signs should be displayed to remind workers where PPE must be
worn.

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Standards

Personal protective equipment is addressed in specific OSHA standards for

general industry, maritime, and construction. OSHA requires that many categories
of personal protective equipment meet or be equivalent to standards developed by
the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

Activity #1 (7 pts.)

To determine your knowledge on Personal Protective Equipment, do the

activity below. You can get the answer inside the table provided below that best
describe by the following statements. Write the letter of the correct answer on your
activity notebook.
A. Head protection E. Foot protection
B. Hearing protection F. Harness lanyard
C. Eye protection G. Chaps pants
D. Hand protection H. High-visibility hat, vest pants

1. Blowing dust or particles, metal shavings, acids or caustic liquids, welding light.
2. Sharp or hot objects, chemicals, biological or electrical hazards.
3. Falling or rolling objects, sharp or heavy objects, wet and slippery surface,
uneven surface, hot surfaces, electrical hazards.
4. Loud tools and machinery, poorly maintained equipment.
5. Falling or flying objects, overhead objects.
6. Working more than 6 feet or more above a lower level.
7. Errant vehicles, distracted drivers.

Activity #2 (3 pts)

Direction: Complete all the statements or phrases below and write your answer on
your activity notebook

I have learned that .

I have realized that .

I will apply .

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 Activity #3

Instructions: Answer the following questions below. Write your answers on your
activity notebook.

Scoring Rubrics : The answer comprises of 4 to 5 sentences = 5 points

: The answer comprises of 2 to 3 sentences = 3 points

: The answer comprises only 1 sentence = 1 point

1. In selecting personal protective equipment, what should be the things to

remember to ensure that the item of personal protective equipment will provide
the level of protection that is it designed to?

2. In using personal protective equipment, what should an electrician do?

Assessment (10 pts)

I. Matching Type
Direction: Match the item in column A with the correct answer in column B. Write
the letter of your answer on your activity notebook.

Column A Column B

A. use to secure electrician from falling.

1.

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2.
B. use to protect the foot from falling objects and
punctures from below.

3. C. use in protecting the eye, especially when using

angle Grinder, drilling machine and other rotating
machine that prone to eye injury.

4.
D. use to protect the head from falling debris and
sharp objects.

5.
E. use by electrician in lifting object and connecting
live wires.

II. TRUE or FALSE

Write True if the statement is correct and False if the statement is wrong. Write
your answers on your activity notebook.

1. The Electrical Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) program provides

requirements to ensure electrical workers are protected from electrical hazards
while working on electrical equipment.
2. To ensure that the item of personal protective equipment will provide
the level of protection that is it designed to, PPE should not be appropriate for the
type of work and give appropriate protection for the risk
3. Using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), make sure that personal
protective equipment is used in accordance with the manufacturers’ instructions

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 4. A person who works with electrical equipment shall be provided with
appropriate electrical PPE and are knowledgeable in the selection, use, limitations,
inspection, donning, doffing, and maintenance of PPE.
5. Hard hat is an item made of cloth, rubber, and leather, covering all or
part of the hand and fingers, but allowing independent movement of the fingers.

References
 Institute of Integrated Electrical Engineers of the Philippines
Incorporated. Philippine Electrical Code of 1992.
 https://www.osha.gov/personal-protective-equipment
 https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/electric_power/personal_protectiv
e_equpment.html
 http://www.oshc.dole.gov.ph/images/Files/OSH%20Standards%2020
17.pdf
 http://www.mnltap.umn.edu/topics/workplace/personal_protection_e
quipment/index.html

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