Thorne & Derrick - Hand Safety Tools for Prevention of Pinch-Point Injury During Push – Pull Working

Posted on 09 December 2022

ShoveIt® Tools

Prevention of Pinch-Point Injury

The ShoveIt® no touch hand safety tool manufactured by the Hand Safety Tool Company helps avoid hand injuries while working with suspended loads or manoeuvring objects, maintaining proper body positioning for safe handling out of the line of fire.

The Push Pull Tool allows users to guide loads, move and position pipes and tubulars, as well as grab slings and taglines without physically placing hands on the item.

The SnareIt™ no touch hand safety tool eliminates finger and hand exposure to the danger zone while safely manoeuvring pipe or other like cylindrical-shaped equipment. The hand tool makes it easy to quickly tighten or loosen the cable around the item to be maneuvered, mitigating risk by minimizing exposure to potential hazards.

The HookIt Tool acts as an extension of the worker’s body to move, push or reposition the item keeping hands and fingers out of the danger zone, avoiding crush and pinch points while at the same time sustaining control of the object being positioned.

While initially designed specifically for lifting grating, the HookIt can be used for a multitude of jobs including, as an extension to move, push or reposition items and equipment, as a rigid tagline to grab wire cables or slings and when used with the Magna-Grab magnetic tagline, closing engine cowling doors, retrieving product out of box making machines, or even for manoeuvring suspended equipment like valves as well as other items with flange holes or openings.

The GrabIt™ hand safety tool helps enable hands-off operations by firmly closing around a pipe or other like object, ensuring a solid grasp when working with suspended tubulars. The Quick Tool Holder enables easy storage of and access to Hand Safety Tool Company tools.

Safe-T-Stik is the ultimate hands-off magnetic load control and positioning safety tool for moving road plate, trench plate, poles, pipe, I-beams, shipping containers, valves, fittings and any other heavy steel objects or large parts being lifted or hoisted into or out of position. The Magna-Grab is a multi- purpose, hands-off magnetic tool. It can serve as a portable magnetic tag line and tether anchor point or may be used as a long-reach, magnetic-retrieval tool.

Thorne & Derrick’s mission is to provide tangible solutions to reduce the impact of potential hand and finger injuries in all industries where hazardous conditions exist. We truly envision a world where hand injuries are no longer the number one recordable incident.

Push Pull Tools

Prevention of Pinch-Point Injury

The range of Push Pull Tools manufactured by the Hand Safety Tool Company and distributed by Thorne & Derrick provide significant Health & Safety Improvements around site where “pushing and pulling” operations such as handling deliveries or loading/unloading in yards is commonplace. This download produced by the UK HSE enables the Risk Assessment according to Load Weight, Operation Frequency, Push/Pull Distances and other impacting factors – the range of tools to keep hands off loads, enable “hands-free” lifting, mitigate risk of load handing and prevent hand or finger injury are available in the UK from Thorne & Derrick.

ShoveIt Hand Safety Tool | Prevention of Pinch-Point Injury

The ShoveIt Hand Safety Tool is manufactured by Hand Safety Tools and stocked and distributed by Thorne & Derrick.

ShoveIt tools are designed to help users avoid hand injuries while working with suspended loads or manoeuvring objects. The tool ensures correct ergonomic body positioning for safe handling out of the line of fire, while enabling users to guide loads, move and position objects, as well as grab slings and taglines without physically placing hands on the item.

Thorne & Derrick distribute a range of Safety Tools from Hand Safety Tool Company designed to minimise hand injuries by keeping hands out of the line of fire.

Over a quarter of a million people suffer serious hand injuries each year. The Hand Safety Tool Company works hard to help to reverse that trend by creating No Touch Hand Safety Tools that keep hands off and away from potential injury areas. The range of Safety Products are the result of numerous conversations and in-field encounters over the last decade with key Health & Safety Officers and “boots-on-the-ground personnel” to ensure each tool produced does the most important job of all – helps every user to keep their hands.