Personal protective equipment
Equipment designed to help protect an individual from hazards
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Personal protective equipment (PPE) is protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other garments or equipment designed to protect the wearer's body from injury or infection. The hazards addressed by protective equipment include physical, electrical, heat, chemical, biohazards, and airborne particulate matter. Protective equipment may be worn for job-related occupational safety and health purposes, as well as for sports and other recreational activities. Protective clothing is applied to traditional categories of clothing, and protective gear applies to items such as pads, guards, shields, or masks, and others. PPE suits can be similar in appearance to a cleanroom suit.
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NHS was within 'six or seven hours' of running out of PPE, says Hancock Some hospitals in England were within "six or seven hours" of running out of personal protective equipment in the early stages of the COVID pandemic, a former health secretary has admitted.Sky News - Published | |
PPE supply in Welsh care homes was 'inconsistent', inquiry hearsThe supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) in Welsh care homes was 'inconsistent', the UK COVID Inquiry has been told.Sky News - Published | |
Nearly £10bn written off value of PPE bought during pandemicThe government has written off £9.9bn of the £13.6bn it spent on personal protective equipment (PPE) in the pandemic due to the gear being unusable or having lost its value.Sky News - Published | |
'The NHS sold out its staff': Doctors whose lives were devastated by long COVID to sue health serviceHundreds of doctors are planning to sue the NHS over claims inadequate PPE on the frontline has left them with long COVID, disabled, and in financial ruin.Sky News - Published | |
Michelle Mone 'surprised' she's not been asked about 'bras and knickers' amid PPE scandal falloutMichelle Mone has hit out at the "obsession" with her personal life - claiming she is surprised the Daily Mirror hasn't asked about her "bras and knickers" following their latest report.Sky News - Published | |
Michelle Mone's husband says family 'treated as punchbag' in row over PPEBaroness Michelle Mone’s husband has hit out at the government and said his family has been “treated as a punchbag” in a row over personal protective equipment (PPE) procurement during the..Sky News - Published | |
Baroness Mone facing legal action following 'threats' to sue newspaper over PPE coverageBaroness Michelle Mone is facing possible legal action by a newspaper which is seeking to recover the money it spent responding to her "threats" to sue over its reporting on the personal protective..Sky News - Published | |
Labour demands Gove answers questions over Michelle Mone PPE controversyMichael Gove is facing calls to answer questions before MPs over PPE firm Medpro after Baroness Michelle Mone admitted she stands to benefit from a deal between the government and the firm.Sky News - Published | |
Baroness Mone admits she stands to benefit from PPE contractBaroness Michelle Mone has admitted she stands to benefit from a contract between the government and PPE firm Medpro.Sky News - Published | |
Denying links to PPE firm awarded huge contracts was an 'error', Michelle Mone saysBaroness Michelle Mone says she regrets denying her connection to a PPE firm awarded huge contracts during the pandemic - and which is now being investigated by the National Crime Agency (NCA).Sky News - Published | West Bengal: LoP Suvendu Adhikari writes to ED director, I-T, Health ministry, alleges probe in purchase of PPE kits during Covid pandemicSuvendu Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, has written to the Enforcement Directorate (ED), alleging a financial scam in the purchase of PPE kits and other medical..IndiaTimes - Published |
Huge pile of unused PPE dumped near nature reserve A mountain of unused packs of personal protective equipment (PPE) has been discovered dumped on land in the New Forest in Hampshire.Sky News - Published | Government legal bill to fight PPE company linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone tops £10m The government has racked up a legal bill of more than £10m to fight a firm linked to Tory peer Baroness Michelle Mone over surgical gowns it provided during the pandemic.Sky News - Published |
