Personal Protective Equipment | PPE
With today’s fast changing medical epidemics security guards need to have protection in place like PPE to prevent the spread of dangerous viruses. This is to protect the clients from outside exposure but also the security personnel themselves as they may come into contact with health risks.
Personal protective equipment or PPE is essential for additional protection that is outside of normal risks at a site. The additional protection although adds on costs it is worth the cost in the long run if it means lives saved as a result of of the PPE.
There are several types of personal protective equipment and each site is unique with its own requirements. Below are a few common types:
- Respirators or facemasks: are devices designed to protect the wearer from inhaling hazardous gases and particles.
- Protective suits: are devices designed to cover the body similar to a full rain suit.
- Gloves, boots, goggles: protect the extremities such as hands, feet, and eyes/nose.
- Hard hats: usually operating on construction or industrial sites protects the head from impacts.
COVID-19 Hygiene Process
The Center for Disease and Control (CDC) is one of the top health organization in the world. They develop standards during serious health epidemics. The CDC has identified the following process for:
Placing gear on:
- Identify and gather the proper PPE to don. Ensure the proper size is chosen for each person.
- Perform hand hygiene with hand sanitizer.
- Put on a protection suit.
- Put on a facemask or encompassing respirator.
- If face shields or goggles are used place those on over the other gear.
- Put on gloves, boots, etc.
- Personnel may now conduct security operations.
Taking gear off:
- Remove gloves.
- Remove protection suit.
- Perform hand hygiene.
- Remove face shields goggles.
- Remove and discard respirator.
- Perform hand hygiene after removing the facemask or respirator.
In conclusion, hygiene is essential to security in the modern world. The lack of hygiene can easily compromise an organization. PPE is critical to the protection mission. Security guards must enforce hygiene policies for safety. Our security personnel have advanced training for hygiene policies. so
PMV Security Group understands the necessity for health protection measures especially during COVID-19 times. We operate with the upmost protection in mind. We ensure protection across all of our services. This includes COVID-19 or other environmentally specific issues or industrial standards. so
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