Hand Safety

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• Injuries to hands and fingers are typically the most frequent injury we have.

• Most of the work we do is done with our hands. It stands to reason that they would be the most frequently injured body part.

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What effects are there from losing fingers or a hand?

• Financial

• Lost work/wages

• Home life

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• Evaluation: A simple four step approach to eliminating, controlling, or minimizing potential hand hazards encountered in day-to-day activities.

Hand SafetyHand Safety Step 1: Complete a general survey.

Is the work site safe?

Are there tripping hazards?

Are all moving parts properly guarded?

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Are there hidden hazards that need to be evaluated?

Have I identified the safe work zone?

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• Step 2: Complete a more specific survey.

• What task are you preparing for?

• What is your role in the task?

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• Step 3: Be familiar.

• All persons must be trained and competent in the work they do.

• If you are not trained or competent, the situation is unsafe.

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• Everyone has an obligation to stop work if it is unsafe.

• All personnel on the job site have the responsibility to work safe.

Hand SafetyHand Safety• Step 4: Use the right tools.

• Use gloves when appropriate.

• Never use defective or damaged tools.

• Use a tool for its intended purpose.

• When utilizing a knife, always cut away from your body.

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Other causes of hand injuries:

• Hand tools

• Sharps in trash

• Reject materials (metal shavings, broken glass etc.)

• Pinch points

• Handling of abrasive materials

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• As an employee, it is important to have a working knowledge of First Aid/CPR practices. It is also important that you understand how and when the use of these practices is needed and to what extent you can respond to an emergency situation.

• The best time to understand your role is before an emergency happens.

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• The first response to an accident is the most important.

• Often, first aid given at the scene can improve the victim’s chances of survival and a good recovery.

• The right response is better than an incorrect quick one; however, any response is better than none at all.

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Universal Precautions

• Avoiding contact with patients’ bodily fluids by means of the wearing of nonporous article such as medical gloves, goggles, and face shields.

• Everyone should be considered a possible carrier of bloodborne pathogens.

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Universal Precautions

• First aid supplies are required to be readily available which will carry items to help protect you when responding.

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• OSHA states that the employer shall ensure the ready availability of medical personnel for advice and consultation on matters of health. In the absence of a medical facility, a person or persons shall be adequately trained to render first aid. (29 CFR 1910.151)

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• Automated External Defibrillators (AED) are sometimes the only way for a Sudden Cardiac Arrest victim to survive.

• To be effective the first shock should be delivered within the first 3-5 minutes.

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• AED machines are self contained and provide step by step instructions to the user during an emergency.

• More detailed instruction is provided in hands-on First Aid/CPR courses.

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Responding

• It is important to understand that you should only respond to the level of training you have received.

• Report all incidents or exposure to your supervisor immediately.

• If the event is life threatening – Call 911 or your local emergency number.

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• If the victim is unconscious and not breathing, perform rescue breathing.

• If the victim’s heart has stopped beating, perform CPR if you have been properly trained.

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• Shock usually accompanies severe injury or emotional upset.

• Signs are:• Cold, clammy skin• Pale face• Chills• Confusion• Nausea/vomiting• Shallow breathing

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• Until emergency help arrives, control the bleeding.

• Utilize latex gloves or plastic bags as a protective barrier.

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• If finger or hand pressure is not adequate, place a thick pad or clean cloth or bandage over the wound.

• As a last resort, a tourniquet can be applied to stop bleeding. Once in place, a tourniquet must be left for a physician to remove.

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• Choking occurs when food or a foreign object obstructs the throat and interferes with normal breathing.

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• For adults and children over one year of age use the following approach:

• Ask “Are you choking?

• Shout for help – Call for help if the victim cannot cough, speak or breathe; if coughing is weak or making high-pitched noises.

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• Phone emergency staff for help.

• Send someone to call an ambulance.

• Do abdominal thrusts: wrapping your arms around the victim’s waist.

• Make a fist• Place thumb side of fist in

middle of abdomen• Quick upward thrusts

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• Use: HELPU

Hazards – identify all the hazards.

Environment – consider your surroundings.

Look – be cautious in high traffic areas.

Protect – against bloodborne pathogens – use universal precautions.

Unknown hazards – consider the hazards you can’t see.

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• Activate Emergency Medical Services (EMS).

• If you are alone, call EMS yourself before rendering aid.

First Aid/CPR/AEDFirst Aid/CPR/AEDPerform an Initial Assessment:

• Open airway using head-tilt, chin-lift.

• Remove foreign materials.

• Look, listen and feel for breathing.

• Assess no longer than 10 seconds, if breathing is absent, perform CPR.

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• If patient is not breathing, give 2 ventilations.

• Provide continuous cycles of 30 compressions and 2 ventilations until another provider or EMS takes over.

• Once the patient begins breathing, if they are not injured, place them in recovery position.

• Monitor breathing.

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