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Worker placing hands directly on a suspended steel load

PSC Industrial Hand Safety Method

Find the hand.™

Industrial hand safety starts before selecting a tool. Identify the exact moment the hand becomes the interface with the load—and why it enters.

Use the method →Take the 3-minute test
LookThinkAct
The exposure · Hands guiding a suspended load

Industrial Hand Safety Starts with the Behaviour

Why does the hand enter?

Effective industrial hand safety starts by understanding why direct hand contact occurs. Most hands-on contact is not random. The hand enters to perform a specific function. Name that function first; only then can the operation replace it.

01Guiding
02Holding
03Aligning
04Retrieving
05Positioning

The PSC method

Look. Think. Act.

A practical industrial hand safety method for moving the discussion away from “be careful” and towards a change in how hand exposure and task control are engineered.

01

Look

Watch the full operation. Find the moment a hand touches, follows, steadies or reaches towards the load.

02

Think

Identify the hand’s function, the likely movement and the position from which the worker should control it.

03

Act

Change the method, add distance and select an interface that transfers required contact from hand to tool.

300mm

The Last 300 mm Rule™

The final gap matters most.

Many tasks are mechanised until the final placement, alignment or release. Then a hand re-enters to finish the movement. Find The Hand™ focuses attention on that last manual interface.

Industrial Hand Safety by Design

Exposure to engineered distance.

The question is not simply whether a tool is present. It is whether the hand has stopped being the working interface.

Worker's hands directly guiding a suspended steel loadThe exposure
Direct hand guidanceHands enter the crush zone to steady and position the load.
Worker controlling a suspended steel load using a long PSC toolEngineered distance
PSC load controlThe required movement is controlled while the worker remains outside the immediate hazard.
01

Suspended loads

Hands guiding, steadying or aligning during movement and landing.

02

Pinch & crush

Hands between moving steel, fixed structures or closing components.

03

Tubular handling

Hands exposed to rolling, rotation and stored movement.

04

Ferrous loads

Hands pushing or pulling directly against suitable steel surfaces.

05

Manual handling

Hands used as temporary supports, guides or positioning devices.

06

Striking tasks

The holding hand placed beside the hammer, punch, chisel or wedge.

The 3-minute test

Pause before the task starts.

Use this industrial hand safety check to identify where the task still depends on direct hand contact.

  1. Where does the hand enter?
    Identify the exact point of contact—not the general work area.
  2. What is the hand doing?
    Guiding, holding, aligning, retrieving or positioning?
  3. What could move?
    Consider swing, roll, drop, rotation, stored energy and closing gaps.
  4. Where should the worker stand?
    Choose the control position before choosing the tool length.
  5. What can become the interface?
    Change the method or transfer contact to a suitable tool.
Worker using a PSC tool to control a suspended bundle of steel bars

Apply Find The Hand™

Send the task. Not a product name.

Share photographs or video of the operation for an industrial hand safety task review. PSC will identify the hand exposure, required working distance and suitable control method.

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