Electrical Safety

Prevention of Pinch Point Injury | GrateIt Hand Safety Tool for Push-Pull Working

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

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. 

Thorne & Derrick Appointed Preferred Supplier of CableSafe Safety Hooks

• Press Release | Chris Dodds - Sales & Marketing Manager at Thorne & Derrick International 

Thorne & Derrick are delighted to announce we are now the CableSafe Preferred Stockist & Distributor for the UK & Ireland covering their range of Safety Hooks  – this commercial agreement builds upon our existing relationship with CableSafe, the manufacturer of the market-leading range of Cable Safety Hooks.

The S-Shaped design of the cable support hooks is the industry standard control measure for the reduction in trip hazards relating to trailing electricity cables – these temporary cables are typically used to connect electrical equipment, pumps, generators and lighting in Shutdown & Turnaround (TAR) periods.

The CableSafe Extreme hooks, available for overnight delivery, provide orderly support and suspension for cables; creating a cable management system to ensure the safe and reliable delivery of electricity. Less mess, less risk.

Thorne & Derrick have committed to hold extensive stocks of the Extreme range of cable hooks to support the electrical industry with excellent customer service levels at the most competitive prices. Our Sales & Marketing Team have benefitted from online Product Training and we look forward to further knowledge improvement sessions with their Safety Product Manager.

CableSafe Safety Hooks Extreme for Harsh & Hazardous Environments

The product development of the Safety Hook Extreme was done in cooperation with a Norwegian oil and gas multinational. The advanced performance Safety Hook Extreme is manufactured from glass reinforced PBT and is UV Stabilized, Flame Retardant (Class: 94V-0, Flame Class Rating 3) and Cold Weather Rated – available in 4 sizes: 15 inch which holds 265 kg, 12 inch which holds 190 kg, 9 inch which holds 55 kg and 6 inch which holds 40 kg static load. For further information see Safety Hook Extreme.

Should you require a quotation, trial sample or would like to discuss a specific application or requirement please do not hesitate to contact us.

CableSafe Hooks | Suspending cables from the workfloor

CableSafe® is a trusted industry specialist and manufacturer of products to promote Cable Safety, Cable Management, Dropped Objects Prevention and Confined Safety.

Thorne & Derrick International, a leading UK Specialist Distributor of LV HV Jointing, Earthing, Substation & Electrical Eqpt will be supporting the introduction, sales and development of the complete range of CableSafe products into the UK and Ireland markets including their core products;

• Cable Hooks
• Cable Stand
• Cable Bridge
• Cable Rail
• Cable Guard
• Dropped Object Prevention Mats

Extreme CableSafe Hooks from Stock | Call Thorne & Derrick with your Enquiry.

T&D are Specialist Distributors of LV MV HV Cable Installation, Jointing, Substation & Electrical Equipment – we supply companies in the onshore and offshore wind, solar, rail, oil/gas, data centre, battery storage and utility sectors with products to enable the energisation, operation and maintenance of underground cables and overhead lines.

LV MV Cable Accessories | Joints Terminations Connectors 600V to 66kV Ex Stock

Introducing the new HoldIt Hand Safety Tool for Push-Pull Working

Hand Finger Injury Prevention

Thorne & Derrick | UK Partners & Stockists for the Push-Pull Tool range manufactured by Hand Safety Tool Company 

Hand & Finger Injury Prevention

HoldIt Tools

The Hand Safety Tool Company have made significant design changes to the original HoldIt Tool based upon feedback from the field and end-users – the key difference is that the new version utilizes a cam buckle trigger to tighten the loop around an object, versus twisting the end handle.

NEW Innovation | HOLDIT Tool by Hand Safety Tool Co | Distributed by Thorne & Derrick

Introducing the new HoldIt Hand Safety Tool

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. 

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

uploaded by Chris Dodds | Sales & Marketing Manager at Thorne & Derrick International 

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. 

Manual Handling Push & Pull Tool Developed By The HSE

Safety Tools | Prevent Hand Injury Using Pushing & Pull Tools

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By

Gwyn Evans BA (Hons)

The HSE has developed a new tool to assist organisations in reducing risks from manual handling pushing and pulling activities.

The guidance, entitled ‘Risk assessment of pushing and pulling’ (RAPP) provides a simple method for evaluating the levels of risk associated to your activities. By following the guidance, you will be able to identify your high-risk activities and check the effectiveness of your control measures.

The tool covers two distinct types of operation:

1. Moving a load which is mounted on wheels
2. Moving loads without wheels which involves dragging/sliding, rolling, or churning (for example, manoeuvring a tilted barrel)

Each type of operation is then broken down further by the typical equipment which may be used, or the manual handling method applied for movement.

There are flow charts to follow for both types of operation; leading you through a number of factors which affect the risk of injury. These include:

• Weight
• Posture
• Grip
• Work pattern
• Travel distance
• Floor surface
• Obstacles

Each factor receives a score based the level of risk, highlighting which create the greatest risk e.g. certain tasks may require poor posture, or require a number of obstacles to be negotiated whilst moving from A to B.

You’ll also now have a cumulative risk score for the overall task.

When assessing a number of different push/pull activities within your organisation, the cumulative scores can be used to compare tasks against each other. This enables you to prioritise your focus on those which carry the highest risk scores.

The results should mean that you can evaluate the effectiveness of your control measures quantitatively, thus giving you a firm grounding on which to base your risk assessments and safe working practices.

Manual Handling Push & Pull Tool Developed By The HSE

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 Hand & Finger 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.