LAHTI PRO PROLINE MEGA TRYTON VULCAN Technical informations PAGE WWW.PROFIX.COM.PL 184 Regulation (EU) 2016/425 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on personal protective equipment and repealing Council Directive 89/686/EEC . According to the European Union legislation, Regulation (EU) 2016/425, local regulations on work health and safety, and the Labour Code, it is the duty of each employer to provide their personnel with personal protective equipment that is suited for protection against workplace hazards. Personal protective equipment (PPE) means: - equipment designed and manufactured to be worn or held by a person for protection against one or more risks to that person’s health or safety; - interchangeable components for the equipment that are essential for its protective function; - connexion systems for equipment that are not held or worn by a person, that are designed to connect that equipment to an external device or to a reliable anchorage point, that are not designed to be permanently fixed and that do not require fasten - ing works before use. Prior to marketing of personal protective equipment, its manufacturer needs to demonstrate through conformity assessment that it conforms to the essential requirements of safety and health protection specified in Regulation 2016/425. One way to demonstrate the conformity of a piece of personal protective equipment to essential requirements is to prove that it conforms to requirements of a standard harmonised with the Regulation. As a confirmation of conformity to essential requirements, the manufacturer or importer affixes the CE mark to the piece of equipment and issues a declaration of conformity . PPE CATEGORIES The PPE Directive divides personal protective equipment into three protection categories, depending on the level of risk that an employee may be exposed to during work. Protection category Risk level Description I Low Products in this category provide basic protection against low-risk external factors with superficial impact that protect against such factors as minor injuries, abrasions, dirt, weak cleaning agents, weak atmospheric factors, contact with hot surfaces not exceeding 50°C, damage to the eyes due to exposure to sunlight (other than during observation of the sun); non-extreme atmospheric factors. II Medium Products belonging to this category are used for protection in conditions, where the level of risk has not been classified as low or high. III High “Category III covers only hazards that can have very serious consequences, such as death or irreversible damage to health, related to substances and mixtures that are hazardous to health, oxygen-deficient atmosphere, harmful biological agents, ionizing radiation, a high temperature environment, the effects of which are comparable to those of an air temperature of at least 100 ° C, a low temperature environment, the effects of which are comparable to those of - 50 ° C or less air temperature, falls from a height, electric shock and live working, drowning, cuts by a portable chainsaw, high pressure jet, gunshot wounds or knife stabs, harmful noise.” Kodeks Pracy “The employer must not allow an employee to work without the measures of individual protection, clothing and working shoes required to be used on a given position” (Polish Labour Code Art 2379 §1) “The employer is obliged to provide employees with measures of individual protection meeting conformity evaluation conditions determined in separate provisions” ( PolishLabour Code Art 2376 §3) LEGAL BASES
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