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Practical knowledge for safety professionals, plant managers and industrial teams working to reduce hand injuries at source.

Featured Article

Hand Exposure Management: Why Industrial Hand Safety Starts Before the First Injury

Discover why leading industrial organisations focus on hand exposure before incidents occur. Learn how exposure-driven safety helps identify hazards early, reduce pinch point risks, and improve industrial hand safety before injuries happen.

Featured Guide

Pinch Point Hazards and Control Measures: Complete Guide to Preventing Hand Injuries

Learn everything about pinch point hazards and control measures, including hazard identification, engineering controls, machine guarding, OSHA guidance, and hands-free safety tools to prevent hand injuries across manufacturing, construction, oil & gas, mining, logistics, and other heavy industries.

Selection Guide

Push Pull Tool Selection Guide: How to Choose the Right Tool for Safer Load Handling

Learn how to select the right Push Pull Tool based on hand exposure, task geometry, standoff distance, and load-handling risks. Discover a practical framework for safer suspended load handling, positioning, and material handling operations.

Thought Leadership

The Last Three Inches: Why Load Positioning Creates the Highest Hand Exposure

Discover why the final moments of load positioning create the greatest hand exposure during suspended load handling. Learn how positioning, alignment, seating, and release tasks increase pinch point risks—and how safer load positioning practices help prevent hand injuries.

Thought Leadership

Where Does the Hand Enter the Hazard?™ A New Approach to Industrial Hand Safety

Discover why every hand injury begins when a hand enters a hazard. Learn how identifying hand exposure before contact helps prevent pinch point injuries, crush hazards, and line-of-fire incidents across industrial workplaces.

Industrial Safety

Hands Free Safety Tools: Engineering Controls for Industrial Hand Safety

Discover how hands free safety tools help reduce hand exposure through engineering controls. Learn where they are used, why they matter, and how they support safer industrial workplaces.

Industrial Hand Safety

Hands Free Working: The Complete Guide to Eliminating Hand Exposure with Hands Free Tools

Learn how hands free working helps eliminate hand exposure using hands free tools, engineering controls, and safer work practices to reduce hand injuries in heavy industries.

Hand Safety

Hand Safety: The Complete Guide to Engineering Controls and Hands-Free Tools for Safer Industrial Work

Learn how engineering controls for hand safety reduce pinch points, crush hazards, suspended load risks, and hand injuries. Discover hands-free tools, task redesign strategies, and practical solutions for creating safer industrial workplaces.

Suspended Load Safety

Suspended Load Safety Tools: The Complete Guide to Load Guiding Tools

Learn how suspended load safety tools and load guiding tools reduce line-of-fire hazards, improve lifting safety, prevent hand injuries, and enable safer hands-free load control in industrial environments.

Suspended Load Control

Suspended Load Control: The Complete Guide to Hands Free Tools for Safer Heavy Load Guidance

Learn how suspended load control improves lifting safety, reduces hand exposure, and enables safer heavy load guidance using hands free tools, engineering controls, and proven load control principles.

Push Pull Tools

Push-Pull Safety Tools: Preventing Crush and Pinch Point Injuries

Discover how Push Pull Tools help prevent crush and pinch point injuries by reducing hand exposure, improving load positioning, and enhancing industrial safety.

Line of Fire Safety

Line of Fire Prevention: Engineering Controls That Keep Workers Out of Danger

Learn how engineering controls, hazard identification, and safer load-control methods help prevent line of fire incidents by reducing worker exposure to suspended loads, hazardous movement, and struck-by or caught-between hazards.

Load Handling & Exposure Control

No-Touch Load Handling: The Safer Way to Move Heavy Materials

Discover how no-touch load handling reduces pinch points, crush hazards, and hand injuries by eliminating direct hand contact with heavy and suspended loads using push-pull and magnetic tools for safer material handling.

Industrial Hand Safety

Industrial Hand Safety Solutions: Engineering Controls That Reduce Workplace Injuries

Learn why engineering controls outperform gloves alone in preventing workplace hand injuries. Explore the four layers of hand protection, hazard-to-solution mapping, exposure assessment, and practical industrial hand safety solutions for safer operations.

Pipe Handling Safety

Pipe Handling Tools: The Complete Guide to Hands-Free Pipe Handling Safety

Discover how hands-free pipe handling tools eliminate hand exposure during lifting, positioning, and moving pipes. Learn engineering controls, hazard prevention strategies, and best practices to reduce pinch point, crush, and line-of-fire risks across Oil & Gas, drilling, mining, manufacturing, and heavy industries.

Industrial Hand Safety

Industrial Hand Safety: The Complete Guide to Hand Exposure Control and Engineering Controls

Learn how Industrial Hand Safety uses Hand Exposure Control, engineering controls, hands-free safety tools and no-touch safety tools to prevent industrial hand injuries across heavy industries.

Offshore Hand Safety

Offshore Hand Safety: Engineering Controls for the World's Biggest Offshore Projects (2026–2029)

Learn how offshore hand safety is improved through hands-free engineering controls for FPSOs, drillships, suspended loads, tubular handling and offshore rigging across the world's largest offshore projects.