Overview

“Hand Protection: Preventing Hand Injury” is a comprehensive course that focuses on the prevention of finger and hand injuries.

This broadcast-quality program shows various types of hand protection for various tasks. Your workers will learn to identify and respect hand hazards, to perform hazardous tasks properly, where and when not to wear gloves, good hygiene practices, and first aid.

After completion of this program, your workers will have participated in over twenty interactions related to hand protection.

Protective Equipment

• Why Protect Your Hands?
• Gloves
• No Gloves
• Barrier Cream
• Finger Cots

Hand Hazards

• Types of Hazards
• Inspection
• Loose Items
• Safety Guards
• Lockout/Tagout Procedures

First-Aid and Hygiene

• Prevention
• First Aid
• Skin Disease

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES
This course will measure mastery on each of the following performance objectives. Upon completion, workers will be able to...

Protect Hands from injury

1. List items that protect hands.
2. State possible injuries that can result from common work tasks.
3. Relate hand injury to the risk of disability.

Judge the use of protective equipment

1. List conditions under which gloves should be worn.
2. List conditions under which gloves should not be worn.
3. Relate common methods of protection to various tasks.
4. Describe common types of gloves and what they protect against.
5. State protective measures other than gloves and how they protect.

Identify hand hazards

1. List types of hand hazards.
2. Relate hand hazards to the injuries they can cause.
3. List practices that help prevent hand injury.

Perform hazardous tasks properly

1. Describe tasks that tools and equipment should perform instead of hands.
2. List safe preparation steps to take before beginning tasks.
3. State the conditions around machinery that create hand hazards.

Practice good hygiene

1. Define “good hygiene”.
2. List items that harm your hands and skin.
3. List hand and skin conditions that can be prevented by hygienic practices.

Practice first aid

1. Explain the hazards that cuts and abrasions pose to health.
2. Describe symptoms of medical problems caused by lack of first aid.