Posted By Descarte
Would you think using a standard, none electric or pneumatic hammer, a basic wooden handle metal head job, could over time cause HAVS?

In my experience the frequency and magnitude of the vibration would be too small to cause HAVS, although if hitting metal on metal your fingers are likely to feel numb and tingle after a while, but would this cause long term health effects?

Or am I wrong, any opinions or if you can reference sources it would much appreciated, if I search for hammer and vibration all I end up getting is info on hammer drills or pneumatic hammers

Thanks in advance

Des

Posted By Descarte
Yes any vibration from any source can be a hazard, I Was just wondering since the frequency and magnitude of a hammer shaft vibration would be so low compared say to a pneumatic rock drill would it likely have the same magnitude of exposure and thus would it breach the exposure limit.

The obvious question from this is to measure it, however from my past industrial hygeine vibration monitoring experience I am unsure whether this would be measurable

Posted By JonCMIOSH
Hi - haven't joined a discussion on here for a while - I usually have to retire injured. Long term its called beat hand (Riddor jobbie if its ever diagnosed) something cellulitis if my memory serves. Miners and metal workers suffered i think. Regards to one and all.