Percepción del uso de los elementos de protección personal en los trabajadores del Instituto para niños ciegos y sordos del Valle del Cauca

Abstract

The definition of personal protection element (PPE), is any object that is used in the labor field, to protect the worker from an obvious or not obvious potential risk and that this is supplied by the employer in most cases, it is That is, this definition is within the framework of occupational safety and health, it is established as any equipment intended to be carried or held by the worker to protect him from one or more risks that may threaten his safety during the development of Work activities All this approach is adjusted to free will, where each worker must have the individual disposition to make use of personal protection elements or not, on this it depends that accident statistics are increased or decreased, when the uses of these are correctly developed elements.