Discussing the various hand hazards your workers face and describing the safety procedures in place to protect them are both important parts of your training. But sometimes, physical demonstrations of just how hand injuries would affect workers’ lives may pack the biggest punch, so to speak.
In other words, here’s a brief training exercise to run with your workers either before training, to ensure full attention to safety instructions, or after training, to leave workers with a vivid impression of how important hand safety is to their everyday lives.
One-Handed Shoelace Tie
To emphasize the importance of these safety rules, conduct a short exercise with employees at your next hand safety meeting. Ask workers to try to tie their shoelaces with only one hand. It can be done, but only with a lot of practice, a special technique, and incredible patience.
Remind them after they’ve spent a few frustrating minutes trying to tie their laces that if they lost a hand in a job accident, this is what they would have to put up with every day.
Also point out that in the most recent year for which statistics are available there were more than 100,000 hand and finger injuries that required days away from work. That’s more than 270 a day! And that’s just the lost-workday injuries. The actual number when you add in all the cuts and scraps and unreported accidents is much higher.
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Give Safety a Hand
Hand safety is certainly important in and of itself. But trainers also need to give a hand to eye and face safety, foot safety, hearing protection, and all other safety concerns. And BLR is here to help! We’re constantly looking for ways to provide you with easy-to-use safety training materials that can help you give the safety message year-round. Including a tool like Safety Training Presentations.
Training for Consistent Compliance
If you’ve been looking for training on a wide range of safety concerns, look no farther. Safety Training Presentations gets you off to a good start with 25 core PowerPoint® safety presentations, each one responsive to either an OSHA training requirement or to common causes of workplace accidents. All are customizable, so you can add your specific hazards or safety policies.
Each lesson also includes completion certificates, sign-in sheets, evaluation forms, and training records. In short, it contains everything you need to motivate, reinforce, retain, and transfer new knowledge—and document that you did so.
In addition to fire prevention, Safety Training Presentation topics covered include:
- Bloodborne Pathogens
- Back Safety
- Emergency Action
- Ergonomics
- PPE
- Welding/Cutting/Brazing
- Portable Power Tool Safety
- Scaffolds
- Lockout/Tagout
- Forklift Operator Safety
- Confined Space Safety
- Fall Protection
- Respiratory Protection
- and more!
Of course, training needs change as OSHA introduces new requirements or as new work practices and technologies bring new hazards. To cover this, you receive a new CD every 90 days you’re in the program, each containing five additional or updated topics.
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About 3.7 million employee injuries took place every day on the job in 2008, base on to the United States Department of Labor (DOL). Almost 5,214 of those were actually fatal.
Trauma to the finger or the hand is quite common in society. In some particular cases, the entire finger may be subject to amputation. The majority of traumatic injuries are work-related. Today, skilled hand surgeons can sometimes reattach the finger or thumb using microsurgery. Sometimes, traumatic injuries may result in loss of skin, and plastic surgeons may place skin and muscle grafts.’`*`