Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Hand Safety
Hand Safety
• How safe are our hands while at work? • An effective skin safety program
& Universal Standard
• The problem with glove usage
• Implementing a sustainable
• The true state of skin safety at work skin safety & protection program
are potentially
exposed
to chemicals that
can be absorbed
through the skin.
CHEMICAL EXPOSURES
How safe is our skin at work?
“A case-crossover study of transient risk factors for Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)
occupational acute hand injury”, Sorock et al., Occupational and www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document
Environmental Medicine, 2004, www.oem.bmj.com/content/61/4/305 ?p_table=PREAMBLES&p_id=1021
How safe is our skin at work?
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Occupational injuries and illnesses counts, rates, and
characteristics, 1995. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor,
Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1998
The True State of Skin Safety at Work
200 Million
Egg McMuffins
NO YES
Recognizing the Early Signs of Skin Health Issues
Erythema
Vesicles
Fissure
Vesicles
Recognizing the Early Signs of Skin Health Issues
• Difficult to work with small, detailed objects, ie, nuts & bolts
• Makes gripping tools difficult
• Painful when working and washing
www.3momentsofskincare.org
An Effective Skin Safety Program
www.3momentsofskincare.org
An Effective Skin Safety Program
www.3momentsofskincare.org
An Effective Skin Safety Program
SITE SURVEY
TRAINING
SITE SURVEY
SITE SURVEY
TRAINING