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Hand tools and shop orientation · Lesson 4 of 4

Hand tools and shop orientation: defects, verification and case study

Tools that must come out of use, snips that only need adjusting, a tool used beyond its rating, a colour assumed instead of read, shop air and clutter, posture, a constructed day-one case, and the evidence a record should hold.

You will be able to: Recognise the common hand-tool defects and misuses, say the corrective action for each, work a constructed first-day case with the choose, check, use, return and record method, and name the evidence to keep.

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Tools that must come out of use

Three faults from the construction standard 29 CFR 1926.301 come up most: a chisel with a mushroomed head, a wrench with sprung jaws, and a wooden handle that is cracked or loose in the tool.

Each takes the tool out of use, whoever owns it, because the employer answers for the safe condition of tools employees furnish themselves (1910.242(a)).

"It is my own tool" is not a reason to keep using it.

Sources

Videos for this lesson

What this video shows: Midwest's own short video on adjusting its aviation snips: the pivot bolt and lock nut, and why blades that have come out of adjustment can seem dull. Follow your own snips' maker. Checked against the video's description.

Video: Extended Life - Midwest Aviation Snips Adjustment Video by Midwest Tool & Cutlery Co., on YouTube. Chosen from the video's published description.

Glossary

Tag out (of use)
To take a faulty tool out of use and report it so nobody picks it up. This course uses the term for hand tools; it is not lockout of machine energy.
Out of adjustment
A snip whose blades no longer meet properly after extended use. Midwest says it can be mistaken for dull blades and that its pivot is a bolt secured by a lock nut.
Constructed case
A teaching example written for this course. It is not a record of an event at AFS or any shop.