personal protective equipment
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20/04/2016 – 29/05/2026 Article 3, Regulation (EU) 2016/425 Scope: Whole act
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:
‘personal protective equipment’ (PPE) means: equipment designed and manufactured to be worn or held by a person for protection against one or more risks to that person's health or safety; interchangeable components for equipment referred to in point (a) which are essential for its protective function; connexion systems for equipment referred to in point (a) that are not held or worn by a person, that are designed to connect that equipment to an external device or to a reliable anchorage point, that are not designed to be permanently fixed and that do not require fastening works before use;
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