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PPE stands for Personal Protective Equipment—the gear you wear to create a barrier between you and shop hazards. In a shop, there are things like sharp blades, flying chips, loud machines, hot surfaces, and heavy or moving parts. Wearing the right PPE reduces the risk of injury from those hazards. Examples include safety goggles for eye protection, gloves for hands, ear protection for loud equipment, hard hats, steel-toed boots, and face shields or aprons as needed for specific tasks. PPE is an essential safety measure when risks can’t be fully removed or controlled by other means.

The other options don’t fit because they refer to concepts unrelated to what you physically wear for protection: Public Protective Engineering suggests broad, engineered safety measures for public systems; Private Protective Equipment isn’t a standard term in safety; Personal Performance Evaluation relates to assessing performance, not protective gear.