Hi, has anyone got a PPE checklists i can use, for a university maintenance team.
Just the usual gear, hard hats, overalls, safety shoes, ear defenders, goggles/safety glasses etc.
We need to have some form of traceability, of what is used, by whom, and and how offen it's changed.
(found one guy using an out of date safety helmet).
Many thanks.

Usually the manufacturers recommend either a 3 year or a 5 year life for hard hats (sometimes from manufacture and sometimes from first use).

I think a better approach is regular inspections of PPE (which can be done by the user or by someone else). It's easy enough to develop a checklist for that, just list the items of PPE with bullet points of what you want looked at for each. Which you can get from the HSE's guidance on PPE if not off the top of your head.

In terms of traceability, we have a simple PPE requisition form filled in by the employee specifying what they require and signed by them on issuing of the items. This info then gets logged on a database. you could probably use an excel document and set up prompts as and when you need to issue replacements.

I have one for you. However don't know how I get it to you.