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This was incorporated into UK law to ensure that personal protective equipment (PPE) was appropriately designed and manufactured, so as to provide appropriate protection to users.

The Regulation has 3 risk categories of PPE (Annex 1):

• Category I: having minimal risks, such as some light duty gloves, wellington boots for wet conditions, general sunglasses to reduce glare whilst working in sunny conditions.
• Category II: These sit between risks in category I and III and is typically the standard protective PPE in the workplace, e.g. heavy duty gloves, safety boots
• Category III: are for “risks that may cause very serious consequences such as death or irreversible damage to health”, and are mostly concerned with typical workplace PPE requirements, such as pesticide use (coveralls etc.), ear protection from noise, eye protection from high-pressure jets.