Hazard Alert: Hand Tools

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• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Description:
  Most construction workers use hand tools. Some use them all day long. Using the wrong hand tool, or the right tool the wrong way, can injure the muscles, tendons, or nerves in your hand, wrist, or arm. These types of injuries develop over time. Early symptoms may include achy, tired hands and wrists that feel better after rest. It is easy to just write these off to a hard day's work - and in some cases that's true. If these symptoms become more frequent, or cause you to stop working and rest your hand a lot, you may already be injured. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Fatigue Musculoskeletal Diseases Musculoskeletal System Occupational Health Safety Vibration Workplace
• Keywords:
  Arm-injuries Carpal-tunnel-syndrome Clinical-symptoms Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Equipment-design Force Hand-injuries Hand-tools Injuries Muscle-physiology Muscle-tension Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Nerve-damage Nerve-function Repetitive-work Rest-periods Safety-education Safety-practices Safety-research Tools Vibration-effects Vibration-exposure Weight-factors Work-environment Work-performance Worker-health

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• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Subseries:
  Hazard Alerts
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046770
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2015 Sep; :1
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Hazard alert: hand tools - tips to choose and use them safely
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:203e980edda963d9f1ce83f301882cb678c7d0eb0b66f6122c185dcf4e9a60a6e378fdf7eb6fd1893b5d0d90e089d5fbf17dae546b5ba51b404c7e976a4ac20a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/212903/cdc_212903_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 344.09 KB ]