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Safety Online Newsletter: Occupational Vibration — Are You At Risk?

February 15, 2010

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Occupational Vibration: Are You At Risk?
By Donald E. Wasserman, Occupational Vibration Consultant
Have you ever personally experienced or watched a heavy equipment construction crew get tossed around by vibration; or a truck driver moving a heavy rig down the highway; or someone using a power hand-tool and observed the intense ripples of vibration motion beginning at the operator's hands, moving up through the forearms to the shoulders? Do you think this daily human exposure to vibration is harmless? What you don't know about daily vibration exposure can seriously and irreversibly hurt those who are exposed.

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