{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-protective-equipment-at-work-regulations-1992/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-protective-equipment-at-work-regulations-1992/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Information, instruction and training",
  "text": "(1) Where an employer is required to ensure that personal protective equipment is provided to a worker, the employer shall also ensure that the worker is provided with such information, instruction and training as is adequate and appropriate to enable the worker to know—\n(a) the risk or risks which the personal protective equipment will avoid or limit;\n(b) the purpose for which and the manner in which personal protective equipment is to be used; and\n(c) any action to be taken by the worker to ensure that the personal protective equipment remains in an efficient state, in efficient working order and in good repair as required by regulation 7(1) and shall ensure that such information is kept available to workers .\n(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), the information and instruction provided by virtue of that paragraph shall not be adequate and appropriate unless it is comprehensible to the persons to whom it is provided.\n(3) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1) the employer shall, where appropriate, and at suitable intervals, organise demonstrations in the wearing of personal protective equipment.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9 substituted (6.4.2022) by The Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/8), regs. 1, 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9 substituted (6.4.2022) by The Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/8), regs. 1, 6(l)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(1) added (17.9.2002) by The Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2174), regs. 1, 5(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9 substituted (6.4.2022) by The Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/8), regs. 1, 6(m)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 9(3) added (17.9.2002) by The Health and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2174), regs. 1, 5(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 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/9",
    "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."
}