ARCO FNSV Health Blog

Industrial ailments are purely incidental. You can distinguish several categories of such disorders and diseases that take shape out due to the continuous exposure to contaminated environment or defective mechanism. Although, the employers are subject to arrange adequate safety stands at the work places, you cannot prevent certain incidental mishaps that become fatal at times. The range of the industrial illnesses is varied. From repetitive strain injuries to COPD; the types and the amount of damage is highly variable.

However, when talking about the repetitive strain injuries, everyone associated with the factory works must be aware with the vibration white finger. Alike all other industrial disorders, this disorder is also completely a child of defective mechanism. White fingers outbreak due to prolonged exposure to repetitive vibrating machines at the work place. Vibration finger directly affects the arm wrists, hands, muscles and blood vessels. All these together prohibit the natural functionalism of the hands.

The common symptoms of white finger are:

·         Paleness or whiteness of hands and especially arm writs

·         Stiffness of hand muscles

·         Loss of sensitivity in the affected area

·         Numbness or tingling in the fingers

·         Loss of fingers in the extreme cases

·         Outbreak of the Parkinson’s disease at times

Some common yet serious preventive measures can save people from this repetitive strain injury. Workers should use vibration preventive gloves while work. Here the gel padded gloves will help them much. While working with a vibrating machine, workers should hold the machines loosely instead of holding them tight. Again, they should take frequent breaks when they are working with such machines. Last but not the least, they should make it confirmed that there are adequate safety measures at the site they are working.