Specialty personal protective equipment includes specialized or proprietary products and accessories related to personal protection. There are several types of specialty personal protective equipment. Examples include a personal safety alarm, personal safety equipment, personnel protective equipment, personal safety devices, personal protective products, and personal safety clothing. Personal safety products include the personal safety alarm, which is an important for personal security. A personal safety product includes home safety alarms that can be placed at the doors or driveways. Personal protective equipment consists of various other alarms such as a keychain alarm, child safe alarm, or travel safety alarm. Personal protective equipment also includes helmets, breathing air filters, gloves, welding mask, anti-spatter. Personal safety clothing includes safety jackets, safety boots, LED vests, high visibility shirts, high visibility exit signs, photoluminescent or glow-in-the-dark tapes and guidance systems. Other specialty personal protective equipment is commonly available.

Specialty personal protective equipment provides protection for ear, face, eyes, or respiratory systems. Specialty personal protective equipment provides protection from hazards such as dangerous gases, fire, or even a burglar. A personal safety alarm consists of a safety alarm that blows in an emergency. It is a small, light weight device that can easily be carried and can produce extremely loud sound up to 120 decibels to draw attention of people around you. Personal safety products such as goggles or safety lenses protect the eyes. Personal safety clothing and gloves protect hands from a hazardous environment. Personal safety equipment is similar to a personal safety product as both of them protect and maintain operator comfort to enhance productivity. Personal safety equipment provides protection of the eyes and face from hazardous flying objects, liquid chemicals, or molten metals. Personal safety equipment includes safety gloves, welding masks, specialty forging, and organic pigment. Personnel protective equipment reduces exposure to hazard to an acceptable level when the administrative and engineering controls are less effective. A stun gun is a personal safety device that uses electrodes that when pressed against the body, sends very high voltage of 30,000 to 50,000V and can disable the human nervous system. Another type of personal safety device is a chemical weapon that can be used to steam, foam, or aerosol. Personal safety devices also include a fall arrest device that prevents a person from falling down at a factory or a construction site, and blows an alarm. A personal protective product provides face protection, eye protection, head protection, and chain saw protective clothing. Personal protective products employ a welding mask, expansion plugs, organic pigment, cartridge filter, and safety gloves. Specialty personal protective equipment can be designed and manufactured to meet most industry specifications.

Specialty personal protective equipment is widely used in industries and factories to provide protection to operators and workers. Specialty personal protective equipment is used in homes, offices, and can also be used while traveling for protection. Specialty personal protective equipment is also used in child protection systems and home security alarms. Specialty personal protective equipment can be utilized when a person people becomes isolated and needs emergency assistance, which can be simply gained by activating an alarm.

Personal protective equipment (PPE) refers to protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other gear designed to protect the wearer's body or clothing from injury by electrical hazards, heat, chemicals, and infection, for job-related occupational safety and health purposes, and in sports, martial arts, combat, etc. Personal armor is combat-specialized protective gear. PPE can also be used to protect the working environment from pollution or infection from the worker, for example in a microchip factory. The protection may be important in both ways, as with the use of disposable gloves by surgeons and dentists. Protective clothing is also worn for contact sports, such as ice hockey and American football. Baseball players wear sliding shorts and a cup under their pants. See baseball uniform, Goalie mask, jockstrap. In British legislation the term PPE does not cover items such as armour. Common protective materials include Nomex and Kevlar. The terms "protective gear" and "protective clothing" are in many cases interchangeable; "protective clothing" is applied to traditional categories of clothing, and "gear" is a more general term and preferably means uniquely protective categories, such as pads, guards, shields, masks, etc. For riding a motorcycle, protective headgear and eyegear are required by law in many countries.