Thread: Things to ponder

When you have some spare time, you know, the time where the number of WWF posts that specifically interest you drops off but you don't really want to go to bed just yet, you may wish to take a look at either of these reports on DIY safety.

http://www.iccwa.org.au/new%20info/D...y%20Report.pdf
and
http://www.monash.edu.au/muarc/reports/Other/DHS01.pdf

Here you will see interesting stats on DIY injuries and how it happened.

Did you know that ladders, lawn mowers and grinders are the most common tool in use when which DIY injuries happen!

What I find surprising is the sheer lack of PPE use.
For example, on page 7 of the latter report;
Only 14% of people injured using grinders were wearing ANY PPE!
With Circular saws only 24% were wearing ANY PPE, while chainsaws have the highest PPE use it was still only 29%.
This is the wearing of ANY PPE, so although 24% of people using circular saws were wearing some PPE, only 13% of people were wearing face protection!
Only one in 10 people that own a power tool actually own any PPE.

The most common injuries are foreign body in eyes (15%), finger cuts (14%), hand cuts (5%)

Top 5 tools/events resulting visiting an emergency care facility are
Grinders, lawnmowers, ladders, motor vehicle maintenance and welders.
Top 5 for hospital admissions
Ladders, lawnmowers, power saws, circular saws and motor vehicle maintenance
Top 5 for death
Electrical Maintenance, Ladders, Tractors, backhoes and Trees

etc

Cheers