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Personal protective equipment (PPE) refers to protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other gear designed to protect the wearer's body or clothing from injury by electrical hazards, heat, chemicals, and infection, for job-related occupational safety and health purposes, and in sports, martial arts, combat, etc. Personal armor is combat-specialized protective gear.

PPE can also be used to protect the working environment from pollution or infection from the worker, for example in a microchip factory.

The protection may be important in both ways, as with the use of disposable gloves by surgeons and dentists.

Protective clothing is also worn for contact sports, such as ice hockey and American football. Baseball players wear sliding shorts and a cup under their pants. See baseball uniform, Goalie mask, jockstrap.

In British legislation the term PPE does not cover items such as armour.

Common protective materials include Nomex and Kevlar.

The terms "protective gear" and "protective clothing" are in many cases interchangeable; "protective clothing" is applied to traditional categories of clothing, and "gear" is a more general term and preferably means uniquely protective categories, such as pads, guards, shields, masks, etc.

For riding a motorcycle, protective headgear and eyegear are required by law in many countries.

Filter mask
Filter mask

[edit] Respiratory protection


[edit] Protective headgear

a beekeeping hat, veil, and suit
a beekeeping hat, veil, and suit

[edit] Helmets

[edit] Masks

Some masks made of hard material like those used by goaltenders in ice hockey (a goalie mask) and catchers in baseball as protection against being struck in the face.

[edit] Eye protection

Goggles
Goggles

Also see Eye protection.

[edit] Hearing protection

ear defenders and visor on a safety helmet
ear defenders and visor on a safety helmet

[edit] Other head/neck protection

Safety helmet with visor
Safety helmet with visor

[edit] Arm/shoulder protection

nitrile glove
nitrile glove

[edit] Hand protection

[edit] Body protection

[edit] Leg/hip protection

  • Foot guard
  • Hip pads (Hip pad)
  • Knee pads
  • Instep guard/instep protector
  • Shin guard (shin guards)
  • Combined knee-shin guards
  • Padded shorts
  • Bouldering mat
  • chaps are individual pant leggings made of leather and worn by farriers, cowboys, and rodeo contestants to protect the legs from contact with hooves, thorny undergrowth, and other such work hazards. May also be made of other materials for leg protection against other hazards, such as "rain chaps" of waterproof materials, or "saw chaps" of Kevlar for chainsaw workers.
clogs
clogs

[edit] Protective footwear

[edit] Protective garments

Protective suit is an umbrella term for any suit or clothing which protects the wearer. Any specific design of suit may offer protection against biological and chemical chemical agents, particle radiation (alpha) and/or radiation (delta and gamma), and may offer flash protection in the case of bomb disposal suits. Most forms of industrial clothing are protective clothing. Personal protective equipment includes:-

[edit] Complete suits

The word "chemsuit" is sometimes used to mean a real chemical-protection suit, as well as fictional.

[edit] Other garments

[edit] Sets of equipment

  • Chainsaw protection (especially a helmet with face guard, hearing protection, kevlar chaps, anti-vibration gloves, and safety boots). Specific information about chainsaw protection is given in the chainsaw safety clothing article.
  • bee keepers wear various levels of protection depending on the temperament of their bees and the reaction of the bees to nectar availability. At minimum most bee keepers wear a brimmed hat and a veil made of hardware cloth similar to window screen material. The next level of protection is offered by leather gloves with long gauntlets and by some way of keeping bees from crawling up one's trouser legs. In extreme cases, shirts and trousers are also fabricated to serve as barriers to the bees' stingers.
  • Diving equipment (scuba gear)

[edit] Other personal protective equipment

[edit] For horses

For equestrians, protection of their horses is not less important:-

[edit] See also

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