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 ...

Even under the best of conditions, our hands take a beating. We bang our knuckles changing a light bulb, cut our fingers opening the mail, and suffer all sorts of breaks and sprains playing pickup ...

With as many as 1 million hand injuries occurring in U.S. workplaces each year, hand protection is an important topic. Manufacturers continuously strive to improve the technology found in hand ...

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 ...

More than 1 million U.S. workers receive emergency treatment for acute hand injuries each year, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that 110,000 workers with hand and finger injuries ...

People probably take their hands for granted until they have an injury. Then they will know just how difficult life can be without the full use of their hands. In the workplace there are many hazards ...

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 ...

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.

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other garments or equipment designed to protect the wearer’s body from injury or infection. The hazards addressed by ...