Prevention of Pinch Point Injury | GrateIt Hand Safety Tool for Push-Pull Working
Published 15 Dec 2022
Hand Finger Injury Prevention
Thorne & Derrick | UK Partners & Stockists for the Push-Pull Tool range manufactured by Hand Safety Tool Company
Prevention of Pinch Point Injury
GrateIt Tools
The Hand Safety Tool Company have made significant design changes to the original GrateIt Tool based upon feedback from the field and end-users.
The GrateIt No-Touch Hand Safety Tool helps users avoid injuries when lifting, carrying, or moving grating – the push pull tool also improves ergonomics by reducing the need for users to bend and overreach serving as an extension of the user’s body, the tool locks onto the grating for secure and controlled manoeuvring.
Push Pull Tool Features
- Sliding fast-action friction-lock mechanism secures tool to grating
- T-hook head design fits between standard-sized grating bars
- Ergonomic D handle enables comfortable lifting and carrying
GrateIt Hand Safety Tool for Push-Pull Working
| Hand Safety Tool Part Number | Safe Working Load | Tool Weight |
| GRATEIT | 50 lbs Max per Tool | 2.8 lbs |
GrateIt helping users to avoid injury when carrying, lifting or moving grating
Push Pull Tools
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.
