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Power tool
Domain: Health and safety at work => Work places and equipment
Grammatical category
Noun phrase
Grammar notes
Countable
Definition
A tool driven by a motor.
Hand-held or hand-guided power tools transmit vibration (known as hand-arm vibration or HAV) into the hands and arms of the operator.
Power tools must be designed and constructed so as to reduce risks from vibration to the lowest level possible making use of technological progress. An instruction book must accompany power tools and it must include:
a) warnings about any vibration-related health and safety risks from using the tool;
b) information on the limit of safe use;
c) either a statement of the vibration level or a statement that the vibration test has produced a vibration emission value below 2.5 m/s2.
Definition source
Wordnet {03846203}; HSE "Power tools: how to reduce vibration health risks" www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg338.pdf
European legislation
Directives 89/391/EEC, 89/655/EEC, 2002/44/EC
Contains
Chain saw
Contained in
Variants
Power-driven tool
Related terms
It
= Attrezzo meccanico