ECHO Appoint Fivesquared to Carry Out Hand Arm Vibration Testing
12 February 2008
ECHO UK have formally appointed Barnsley based Earlsmere’s “Fivesquared Division” to carry out Hand Arm Vibration tests on their range of chainsaws, brushcutters, hedgetrimmers and power blowers.
ECHO UK Sales Director, Mark Osborne said “The decision to appoint Earlsmere’s Fivesquared division to carry out our testing was based on their considerable reputation, and the fact that they test the products in operation, rather than a static test. This provides us with much more accurate information regarding the Hand Arm Vibration levels, and allows us to be wholly confident of providing this information to the end user. In addition, Fivesquared use the test results to provide clear safe operator user times, or time to reach EAV (Exposure Action Value), for each product tested.”
ECHO will be recommending that their customers consider implementing Earlsmere’s new vibration management software ‘Toolminder’, which provides a single point of reference to establish the best machine for a particular application, whilst showing technical data, safe usage limits and noise levels. The package will then advise on which protective items the operator should be provided with, as well as giving the option of printing a vibration data label that can be attached to the machine, meaning no excuses for machine use over the EAV pre-set limit.
Earlsmere Director, Jeremy Hoyle explained, “Vibration and noise are now well recognised as potentially serious problems within numerous industries which, if not adequately addressed, can lead to major health issues. Vibration White Finger in the mining industry is perhaps the best publicised example, but there are numerous others. Fivesquared have been at the forefront for the last 7 years in the drive to assist employers, operators and manufacturers to accept these dangers and initiate best working practices. We are looking forward to working with ECHO UK, and are delighted that ECHO have appointed Fivesquared to carry out the vibration testing on all their products.”
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