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News Release from: Fluid Power Safety Institute | Subject: The lethal strike
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 24 July 2008
Video illustrates hydraulic safety
Instructional DVD focuses on the correct prehospitalisation management of oil injection injuries, and is billed as an absolute "must see" for everyone in the hydraulics industry.
The Fluid Power Safety Institute has released the first in a series of instructional DVDs aimed at hydraulic safety According to FPSI's founder and Director, Rory S McLaren: "Hydraulic safety can no longer be ignored while accidents related to hydraulics, and especially 'near-misses', reach epidemic proportions"
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 30 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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McLaren adds: "Hydraulic safety is a 'top down' problem - system design engineers, safety officials, supervisors and managers and state and federal safety organisations generally aren't exposed to hydraulic safety issues".
"The net result, operators and technicians - the people in the trenches - routinely service and repair hydraulic systems by trial-and-error: accidents are inevitable".
"The industry's most urgent problem is preventing debilitating oil injection injuries, so we made this our first priority".
High-pressure injection injuries are becoming increasingly prevalent.
Their innocuous appearance leads to underestimation of their severity and results in significant morbidity.
An early referral to a hand surgeon may help in reducing morbidity.
The nature of the substance injected (volume, viscosity and toxicity), the site of injection, dispersal, pressure of injection and delay in surgical treatment are believed to be the main factors that contribute to the outcome of injection injuries.
Most patients will require extensive postoperative hand therapy, prolonged healing time, and will usually be left with long-term motor and sensory deficits.
"The lethal strike" is an exceptional safety presentation, which focuses on the correct prehospitalisation management of oil injection injuries.
It is an absolute "must see" for everyone in the hydraulics industry.
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