When you cant use wooden handled tools.

[Mud]

Some industries won't allow exposed wooden handled tools in site (eg. pharmaceutical). I saw a bloke put heavy electrical shrink wrap around his hammer handle this afternoon to get around this legitimate rule.

 

[malibu101]

If it makes the safety inspector happy, all is good.
A thumbs up for the bloke who thought of it.

 

[Mud]

Inspector was none the wiser until told, bloke had fitted a steel cap to the base of the handle also. It turned out to be a ripper bit of gear.

 

[abk241]

I've gotten away with similarly using heat shrink on screwdriver shanks to meet safety requirements for working in control enclosures at certain job sites.
I have yet to convince myself that I would allow that if I were the safety guy.

 

[T45]

If it won't blow your cover, mind sharing the applications you guys are talking about?

Like is this an engineering or a sanitation issue/?

 

[Mud]

If it won't blow your cover, mind sharing the applications you guys are talking about?

Like is this an engineering or a sanitation issue/?

Take a chill pill brother, you worry too much

 

[uart]

Take a chill pill brother, you worry too much

Chill pill??? Worry??? He's just interested in what is the objection to wooden tools is in this environment. As am I.

Is it to do with the possibility of splinters or fragments of wood becoming dislodged?

 

[Mud]

Chill pill??? Worry??? He's just interested in what is the objection to wooden tools is in this environment. As am I.

Is it to do with the possibility of splinters or fragments of wood becoming dislodged?

Relax mate, nothing is being dislodged

 

[Fretters]

Relax mate, nothing is being dislodged

They're merely wondering why the use of wooden handles isn't allowed. Is it due to bacterial concerns, or something else? If it was no ferrous metals, then we'd know the reasoning there, but wood I'm guessing is simply for hygiene/contamination reasons?

 

[Tronyadorable]

That's because engineers and FDA type Nazi riff-raff don't look for facts. They just parrot nonsense.
http://www.woodworking.co.uk/Technical/Bacteria/bacteria.html

 

[Mud]

They're merely wondering why the use of wooden handles isn't allowed. Is it due to bacterial concerns, or something else? If it was no ferrous metals, then we'd know the reasoning there, but wood I'm guessing is simply for hygiene/contamination reasons?

You're right on the contamination issue.

 

[Mud]

That's because engineers and FDA type Nazi riff-raff don't look for facts. They just parrot nonsense.
http://www.woodworking.co.uk/Technical/Bacteria/bacteria.html

Interesting article!!

 

[minimowog]

after reading the link posted, I take it no one bothered to walk into a butchers shop then?

wooden topped butchers block are still used in the UK in butchers shops, and i have a 2 inch thick wooden chopping board and no one in our house has died yet

 

[BlackTalon]

Plenty of local Health Departments around the US will not allow wood-handles knives in restaurant kitchens. You can point the inspectors to research/ internet articles, but for some reason that does not seem to change their enforcement.

 

[Fretters]

after reading the link posted, I take it no one bothered to walk into a butchers shop then?

The people who make the reg's rarely live in the real world like the rest of us. Anyone with an ounce of nounce knows that wood is safe enough, but conversely I know that the hygiene/contamination camp seem to have fits over anything which isn't either plastic, stainless or glass.

What always amazes me is that they never seem to twig that there's likely far more risk of contamination from the person wielding the tooling rather than the tooling itself.

 

[BDT/NWMN]

OoFdA better watch where you spit your snuff..