Safety Inspections are required to maintain your workplace according to standards established by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Among the items requiring inspection are the hand ...

Tools are such a common part of our lives that it is difficult to remember that they may pose hazards. Employees who use hand and power tools and are exposed to the hazards of falling, flying, ...

ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala. -- Employees who use hand and power tools are exposed to the hazards of falling, flying, abrasive and splashing objects. They also may be subject to harmful dusts, fumes, ...

You hold an electric drill in your hand, so that makes it a hand tool, right? It's an amusing thought, but the people who actually write the safety rules beg to differ. The Occupational Safety and ...

Hand-Arm Vibration (HAV) is an occupational vibration exposure that mainly affects people who regularly use all types of vibrating pneumatic, electric, hydraulic and gasoline-powered hand tools.

OSHA states that the fall zone is considered to be the area in which it is reasonably foreseeable that partially or completely suspended materials could fall in the event of an accident. The Hand ...