Preventing Hand Injuries

Your hands allow you to accomplish almost anything in life, or at the very least make it easier. The tasks you can complete with your hands range from the simple to the extraordinary; however, your hands can be easily injured in a variety of ways, including crushing, cutting, burning, or even via amputation. It is critical you learn how to protect yourself from these, and other, kinds of hand injuries.

Certain injuries to your hands are more common than others, and hazards can be grouped into identifiable categories: mechanical, contact, and personal. This course shows you what those injuries are, how to identify those hazards, and how to avoid both. Your hands are extremely complex, and even simple injuries can cause permanent damage and disability. This is why preventing those injuries is so important. This training video gives you the instructions and knowledge on how to do just that.

There are dozens of bones, nerves, arteries, ligaments, joints, and muscles in your hand. Injuring just one could be catastrophic, even if the injury appears minor, you could lose grip strength, dexterity, or movement. Your hands are important yet also easily damaged. Use this course to learn to identify hazards to your hands and reduce the likelihood you will suffer an injury.

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Anyone working with their hands, particularly around mechanical equipment, tools, knives, or other hazards

• Introduction
• Hand Injuries and Hazards
• Controlling Mechanical Hazards
• Controlling Contact Hazards
• Personal Hazards
• Conclusion

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