When you can’t eliminate a hazard any other way, it’s your duty under the law to provide apparel or gear to protect the worker from that hazard.
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The U.S. Army Material Command (AMC) buys and maintains basically everything the army needs to operate. The saying goes, “If a soldier shoots it, drives it, flies it, wears it, communicates with it, or eats it, AMC provides it.”
Headquartered in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, the AMC has a primarily civilian workforce of 70,000 people in all 50 states and in 150 countries. They work with everything from airplane parts to chemical weapons, paint, food, ammunition, and PPE.
Asked to share some of the AMC’s best PPE strategies, Doyle Wooten, acting safety director for AMC safety, lists the following:
- The command relies heavily on job hazard analysis. Every job in the army has a series of tasks, standards, and conditions, and PPE is considered part of the conditions.
- The Corpus Christi Army Depot (a Voluntary Protection Program Star site) has a PPE “store” where employees can see various types of safety gloves, hard hats, coveralls, and other items. Employees can try out items to help decide which they prefer to use.
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- Safety managers welcome comments and suggestions about protective gear. If an employee needs something better or different, it will be provided.
- Even in the field (including in theaters of war), every effort is made to comply with rules about wearing and using PPE.
- If an employee is found in violation of PPE rules, an AMC safety manager will typically write a citation that notes the violated rules, such as army and/or OSHA regulations. (The army, like most federal agencies, can be cited but not fined by OSHA.)
- Army leaders visiting a worksite to conduct a walk-through or audit are outfitted in PPE just like the employees whose work they are reviewing.
- PPE is an ongoing topic for the army safety councils (safety committees). Members address near misses prevented by wearing the proper PPE, and the content of these discussions is shared throughout the Command.
PPE is the last line of defense after engineering controls, work practices, and administrative controls have been exhausted. OSHA estimates that more than 20,000 workplace injuries could be avoided each year with proper use of PPE.
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