Ask someone in the construction industry for the best way to protect hands from construction hazards, and you’ll hear a common but insufficient response: “Just wear gloves.” It’s flippant and ...

If you want to get attention about hand safety, try showing a project crew what happens to a naked human hand when a knife slices through the palm, or a 4x4 comes crashing down on the bony back of the ...

There are many tools that have become invaluable to employees in a variety of industries across the decades, but one could argue that the most important tool to a worker is their hands. It is with ...

Across diverse industries, workers’ hands are constantly exposed to hazards, such as sharp objects, extreme temperatures, toxic chemicals and heavy machinery. Despite material and technological ...

Hand injuries are among the most common workplace incidents. While many are minor, such as cuts and scrapes, others can be far more serious, including burns or even amputations. Taking time to ...

Hands are the most used tools in the workplace, making their protection from on-the-job hazards critically important to maintaining employee productivity. Hand dangers are around every corner.

When I spoke at an EHS Today/ Dyneema forum during the 2014 ASSE Professional Development Conference and Expo in Orlando, Fla., I conducted an informal hand safety poll. I asked the audience: "How ...

How often do construction workers lose some of their hand use from job-related wear-and-tear? How many small accidents, some too minor to make it into the OSHA logs, take a toll over the years? What ...

Each year, millions of hardworking manual labor professionals—like yourself—encounter a variety of injuries on their jobsites. All too often, many of these injuries are associated with their hands, as ...

The ShoveIt™ hand safety tool was specifically designed to help avoid hand, arm and finger injuries when working with suspended loads, moving, pushing and pulling tools, objects and equipment, or ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- Thanksgiving is one of America's favorite holidays, but preparing a traditional turkey feast can be overwhelming. Trying to get it all done can result in hand and wrist injuries or ...