Most hand injuries are preceded by repeated, unrecorded hand exposure. Mapping identifies where hands enter the hazard — before an incident records it for you. PSC Hand Safety reviews your tasks and helps identify the exposure, the hazard type, and the most appropriate control category.
A steel plant may complete six months without a recorded hand injury. Workers in the finishing line still insert their hands between steel sections and guide rails every shift. A foundry may report zero incidents for a quarter while operators continue to steady suspended mould boxes by hand during final positioning.
Hand exposure exists independently of hand injury. When injury finally occurs, it appears sudden — but the exposure was present every single day before it. The difference between a near miss and a serious injury is often nothing more than timing.
Hand safety mapping addresses exposure directly. It does not wait for an incident to reveal where hands are entering hazardous tasks.
The question is not only "how many hand injuries did we have?" — it is "how many times did hands enter the hazard zone today?"
PSC Hand Safety offers task-based hand exposure mapping as the first step in any exposure-reduction programme. You share the task. We identify the exposure points, the hazard type, and the applicable control category.
Exposure is concentrated in a predictable set of task types — not randomly distributed across all activity. In most Indian industrial environments, a small number of recurring tasks account for a high proportion of hand exposure events.
The list below identifies the most common high-exposure tasks encountered across steel, aluminium, foundry, heavy engineering, oil & gas, and maintenance environments in India.
If your workers perform any of these tasks regularly, hand exposure is already present and measurable — whether or not it has yet resulted in an injury.
Send the task. PSC Hand Safety will review it and identify where the hand exposure occurs, what category of control applies, and what options are available.
For faster response, send task photos or videos directly by WhatsApp along with your company name, plant location, and a brief description of the task.
Send Task via WhatsAppOnce exposure is identified, PSC Hand Safety can recommend the appropriate category of control — push/pull tools, magnetic handling aids, taglines, fingersavers, or custom solutions.