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OSHA's 1910.132 General Requirements standard is the baseline rule behind every workplace PPE program — eye and face protection, head protection, protective clothing, respiratory devices, and protective shields, wherever a job process, chemical hazard, or mechanical hazard could cause injury.
Before selecting PPE, employers must assess the workplace to determine whether hazards are present or likely to be present. That assessment must be documented with a written certification identifying the workplace evaluated, who performed the evaluation, and when. Based on the assessment, the employer selects PPE that protects against the identified hazards and properly fits each employee.
All PPE must be of safe design and construction for the work being performed, provided and maintained in sanitary, reliable condition, and never used if defective or damaged.
Every employee required to use PPE must be trained to know:
Employees must demonstrate understanding before being allowed to perform work requiring PPE, and must be retrained whenever workplace conditions, PPE types, or an employee's demonstrated skill change enough to make the original training obsolete.
With narrow exceptions (non-specialty safety footwear, ordinary weather gear, and a few others), the employer must provide required PPE at no cost to the employee, and must pay to repair or replace it as needed — except when the employee lost or intentionally damaged it.
For the full regulatory text, see OSHA's 1910.132 standard page.
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