Carried out a Hand and Arm vibration assessment yesterday.
To get started I used the HSE hand and arm vibration exposure calculator to give me the Exposure Action Value and Exposure Limit Value of the tools I was assessing. It is not difficult and gives a small company a starting point.
Equipment Current average daily exposure Vibration Value EAV, ELV:
- Bosh Impact Driver GDR 10.8 – LI 15mins 10.5 m/s2 27 mins 1hr 49mins
- Dewalt Impact Driver- DCF 815 15 mins 9.2 m/s2 35 mins 2hrs 22mins
- DeWalt Cordless Jig Saw-DCS 331 10mins 13.5 m/s2 16 mins 1hr 6 mins
- Bosh Cordless Jigsaw-GST10 10.8V-LIW 30mins 7 m/s2 1hr 4hrs
- Mirka-Belt Sander -9404-1 30mins 4 m/s2 3hrs 12hrs
- Bosh GKS 10.8 V-LI 30mins 2.5 m/s2 8hrs 24hrs