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Impact Wrench & Important Considerations
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Scaffold Wrench vs Impact Wrench
There are various beliefs as to whether a scaffold wrench or impact wrench is better. One factor to take into account is the worker’s health and safety.
When workers use a scaffold wrench, there is a lot of movement that is required. This movement is repeated over and over, and in the long term can cause problems to the worker.
An impact wrench on the other hand requires less movement than a scaffold wrench. However, the downside with using an impact wrench is that the worker may be exposed to vibrations caused from the tool, which over the long term can cause health problems. There are also noise problems which can also cause long term hearing damage to the employees.
In order to combat these health problems that a worker may be exposed to, it is important to train the employees on how to properly perform the movements. When it comes to the impact wrench, many of the problems can be mitigated with the help of proper PPE (Personal Protective Equipment).
Personal Protective Equipment
Gloves
Various vibration dampening gloves are available on the market today, and thus providing the employees with these gloves will significantly reduce the risk of injury.
However, it is not only important to provide employees with gloves, but also to ensure they use them. Very often, PPE is provided, but workers find that the PPE obstructs the workers ability to work efficiently, and thus they choose not to wear the PPE.
Having good communication with the workers, and ensuring they are comfortable reporting problems with the PPE will be an effective way to ensure they use proper PPE, and ask for new PPE when required.
An instance of when different PPE may be required is when the seasons change. The types of gloves used in the summer months and winter months (especially in areas where snow exists) vary significantly, and it is important to be aware of this and be aware that there may not be a one-size-fits-all solution to choosing a vibration-dampening glove.
Ear Plugs
Similar to the vibration-dampening gloves, ear plugs are a form of PPE that should be provided to employees in order to protect them. However, like any type of PPE, if the employee does not know how to properly wear the earplugs, then they could give a false sense of safety.
With all of these negative points associated with using impact wrenches during scaffolding, one important thing to note is that these dangers can be easily minimized, if proper PPE and proper training is required. Therefore, before implementing a protocol to use an impact wrench instead of a scaffold wrench, employees need to be properly trained on how to protect themselves.