{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-protective-equipment-at-work-regulations-1992/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-protective-equipment-at-work-regulations-1992/regulation-5.json",
  "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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Compatibility of personal protective equipment",
  "text": "(1) Every employer shall ensure that where the presence of more than one risk to health or safety makes it necessary for their worker to wear or use simultaneously more than one item of personal protective equipment, such equipment is compatible and continues to be effective against the risk or risks in question.\n(2) Every relevant self-employed person shall ensure that where the presence of more than one risk to health or safety makes it necessary for them to wear or use simultaneously more than one item of personal protective equipment, such equipment is compatible and continues to be effective against the risk or risks in question.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5 substituted (6.4.2022) by The Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/8), regs. 1, 6(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "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": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 5 substituted (6.4.2022) by The Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/8), regs. 1, 6(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 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/5",
    "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."
}