Subsection 3: Worker information and training

The employer shall inform workers who are required to use personal protective equipment in an appropriate manner of: 1° The risks against which the personal protective equipment protects them; 2° The conditions of use of this equipment, in particular the uses to which it is put; 3° Instructions or guidelines concerning the personal protective equipment; 4° The conditions under which the personal protective equipment is made available.

The employer shall draw up instructions for use setting out the information mentioned in 1° and 2° of article R. 4323-104 in a comprehensible manner. He shall make this instruction available to the members of the social and economic committee, together with documentation relating to the regulations applicable to the provision and use of personal protective equipment concerning the establishment’s workers.

The employer shall ensure that workers required to use personal protective equipment receive appropriate training, including, where necessary, practice in wearing the equipment. This training shall be repeated as often as necessary to ensure that the equipment is used in accordance with the instructions for use.