# The Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992, Regulation 5: Compatibility of personal protective equipment

Extent: E+W+S

(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.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2966/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/personal-protective-equipment-at-work-regulations-1992/regulation-5
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