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Hand arm vibrations

Occupational hazard from overusing handheld machinery

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
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In occupational safety and health, hand arm vibrations (HAVs) are a specific type of occupational hazard which can lead to hand–arm vibration syndrome (HAVS). HAVS, also known as vibration white finger (VWF) or dead finger, is an industrial injury triggered by continuous use of vibrating hand-held machinery and constituting a secondary form of Raynaud's syndrome. Use of the term vibration white finger has generally been superseded in professional usage by the broader descriptor HAVS, although it is still used by the general public. The symptoms of vibration white finger are the vascular component of HAVS.

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“Hand arm vibrations” enters the record as occupational hazard from overusing handheld machinery. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hand, vibrations and Occupational can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hand arm vibrations” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.