Personal Protective Equipment Compliance
While the elimination of exposure risks is our key driver, often this is not readily possible or feasible, and personal protective equipment (PPE) is used.
At the end of the reporting period, the status of overall PPE compliance in the Company was 98 per cent, compared to 93 per cent in the previous reporting period, as shown in the graph below.
This is an area where we continually seek improvement and are encouraging operations to implement formal audit programs of PPE compliance. To read about some of our initiatives, refer to the PPE discussion in Our Approach.
PPE Compliance
2002/03 to 2004/05
It was encouraging that there was an increase in PPE compliance, and there was continued improvement in the number of operations that have formal audit programs in place for PPE compliance. This increased from 78 per cent in the previous period to 82 per cent, as shown in the graph below.
