Hand Safety Awareness

This Hand Safety Awareness course aims to reduce the chance of had injuries in the workplace.  The training provides the knowledge needed to keep hands safe at work.

This Hand Safety Awareness course provides staff with an understanding of safe working procedures,  applicable legislation, different types of hazards, and the most common hand injuries.  You’ll also learn the appropriate Personal Protective Equipment to wear for various tasks.

Providing this information to staff gives them the knowledge to work safely while also helping to employers meet training responsibilities.

This course is designed for everyone who works with their hands and especially those work work with machinery or sharp objects.  The types of role that this course is beneficial for are:

• Construction Workers
• Caterers
• Welders
• Fabrication Engineers
• Recycling Operatives
• Waste Collection

We use our hand constantly. A disabling hand injury can have a dramatic effect on your quality of life. A hand injury can impact not only your ability to perform your job, but daily routines as well. A hand injury can occur in a second, but the social, financial and emotional effects can last a lifetime.

Human hands are unique and one of our greatest assets. Hand injuries can vary from minor cuts or irritation to amputations.

Statistics show that 20% of workplace injuries involve the hands. The vast majority of hand injuries are lacerations (63%) with crush (13%) also common.  Approximately 75% of industrial injuries that cause partial disability involve the hands; in the UK over 3 million individuals seek emergency care each year for hand injuries.

Proper training is an important element in staying safe. Training is provided to ensure that all personnel have the knowledge required to carry out the task safely. If you have not been properly trained for a task, it’s quite simple. Do not carry out that task. Stop, tell your supervisor, and he or she will get a trained person to do the job.

The Health and Safety Act 1974 (HSWA) requires employers to ensure the health and safety of all employees.   And anyone affected by their work, so far as is reasonably practicable.  This means balancing the level of risk against the measures needed to control the risk in terms of money, time or trouble.

When deciding on the most effective and reliable way to prevent a hand injury, it is important to do a Risk Assessment. Businesses are required to carry out a risk assessment by the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999; you will find more information in the Health and safety toolbox.