HANDS & FINGER SAFETY COURSE OVERVIEW
Almost 1/3 of all industrial incidents involving body parts, mostly affect the hand and fingers. Workplace hand injuries are often one of the leading causes of employees' visits to the emergency department. A hand injury can affect your everyday life as well as the quality of your work at the workplace, whether it's a mild burn on the skin, an allergic reaction, or something more severe like losing a finger, nervous issues in the hands and fingers.
Legal Training requirement / Obligation on employer
- OSHA 29 CFR 1910.132 (d)(l); OSHA 29 CFR 1926 Subpart I, Tools - Hand and Power; OSHA 29 CFR 1910.212, Machine Guarding Requirements; OSHA 29 CFR 1910 Subpart I, Personal Protective Equipment
Training Course Content
- Different types of Finger injuries
- Information on machine guards
- Explanation of administrative as well as engineering controls
- Information and selection of PPE
- Main hazards for tool accidents
- Describe how to operate safely with machinery.
Learning outcome of Training
- Recognizing the most common forms of occupational hand and finger injuries
- Determining the most common causes of mechanical and hand tool accidents
- Knowledge on safe practices to work around equipment
- Knowledge to increase hand and finger safety through effective engineering and administrative controls
- Recognizing importance of PPE
- Recognize the function of machine guards and how to use them correctly.
Who should attend the Training
- All Workers
- Manager
- Engineer
- Supervisor
- Safety Officer / Manager / Engineer
Benefits of Training
This course covers the safety measures that must be taken to avoid hand and finger injuries.
