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Personal protective equipment (PPE) refers to protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other gear designed to protect the wearer's body or clothing from injury by electrical hazards, heat, chemicals, and infection, for job-related occupational safety and health purposes, and in sports, martial arts, combat, etc. Personal armor is combat-specialized protective gear.
PPE can also be used to protect the working environment from pesticide application, pollution or infection from the worker (for example in a microchip factory).
The protection may be important in both ways, as with the use of disposable gloves by surgeons and dentists.
Protective clothing is also worn for contact sports, such as ice hockey and American football. Baseball players wear sliding shorts and a cup under their pants. See baseball clothing and equipment, goalie mask, jockstrap.
In British legislation the term PPE does not cover items such as armour.
Common protective materials include Nomex and Kevlar.
The terms \"protective gear\" and \"protective clothing\" are in many cases interchangeable; \"protective clothing\" is applied to traditional categories of clothing, and \"gear\" is a more general term and preferably means uniquely protective categories, such as pads, guards, shields, masks, etc.
For riding a motorcycle, protective headgear and eyegear are required by law in many countries.
Respiratory protection
Filter mask;
Gas mask;
Air-purifying respirator;
Self Contained Breathing Apparatus, including scuba sets.;
Protective headgear
Helmets
See Helmet#Types of helmet
Masks
Some masks made of hard material like those used by goaltenders in ice hockey (a goalie mask) and catchers in baseball as protection against being struck in the face.
For gasmasks and similar, see #Respiratory protection.;
See Mask (disambiguation);
Eye protection
See Eye protection.
Hearing protection
Ear defenders;
Earplug;
Earmuffs;
Earpads/earflaps;
Other head/neck protection
Throat guard;
Headguard (Head guard);
Boxing headgear;
Mouthguard;
Armored/insulated hood;
Association football headgear;
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