February 2023

The Health & Safety Executive enforce the Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005, which aims to protect against hand arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) and whole-body vibration health conditions. As a business or organisation who uses vibrating tools or equipment, you are legally required to manage the risk posed by vibration to as low as […]

When conducting your HAVS risk assessments, there are 2 main pieces of information that are used to assess risk: vibration magnitude and exposure time. Typically, there are two types of vibration magnitude data that can be used; assumed data or continuously measured and monitored data. The issue of using assumed data verses continuously measured and