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 ...

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 ...

Travis Watson watched as a rigger checked a cable for frayed wires. The worker was wearing a coated fabric glove that had what was then considered a high puncture-protection rating. But suddenly, as ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

For years, A2 and A3 cut-resistant gloves were the trusted standard for hand protection. But that standard is shifting. Today’s fast-moving workplaces are defined by advanced materials, quicker ...