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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-protective-equipment-at-work-regulations-1992/regulation-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2966",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-protective-equipment-at-work-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Use of personal protective equipment",
  "text": "(1) Every employer shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that any personal protective equipment provided to their workers by virtue of regulation 4(1) is properly used.\n(2) Every worker shall use any personal protective equipment provided to them by virtue of these Regulations in accordance both with any training in the use of the personal protective equipment concerned which has been received by them and the instructions respecting that use which have been provided to them by virtue of regulation 9.\n(3) Every relevant self-employed person shall make full and proper use of any personal protective equipment provided to them by virtue of regulation 4(2).\n(4) Every worker and relevant self-employed person who has been provided with personal protective equipment by virtue of regulation 4 shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that it is returned to the accommodation provided for it after use.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 10 substituted (6.4.2022) by The Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/8), regs. 1, 6(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 10 substituted (6.4.2022) by The Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/8), regs. 1, 6(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 10 substituted (6.4.2022) by The Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/8), regs. 1, 6(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (1.10.2015) by The Deregulation Act 2015 (Health and Safety at Work) (General Duties of Self-Employed Persons) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1637), art. 1, Sch. para. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 10 in force at 1.1.1993, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2966/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:11:09.984348+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}