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Discover the Leading HAVS Monitoring Solution – Visit SIXIS Technology at The Health and Safety Event 2025
Join SIXIS Technology at The Health and Safety Event 2025 to discover how our advanced HAVS monitoring solution, HAVSPRO, can help protect your workforce from the risks of Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS). Visit Stand 3/K70 to learn more about simplified compliance, real-time monitoring, and easy-to-use tools for vibration risk management.
Take the Risk out of Inaccurate Risk Assessments
Effective risk assessments for vibration are essential to protect employees and ensure compliance with regulations. HAVSPRO provides precise data to identify risks, plan controls, and create accurate assessments that safeguard your business and workforce.
Raynaud’s Awareness Month
Understanding Raynaud’s & Vibration Risks This Awareness Month
February is Raynaud’s Awareness Month, highlighting a condition affecting circulation in fingers and toes. Those using vibrating tools face a higher risk of developing Raynaud’s or Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS). These irreversible conditions impact work and daily life. This blog explores Raynaud’s, its symptoms, and why managing vibration risks is vital for workforce health.
Is Compliance Enough?
Is Compliance Enough? Understanding Vibration Risk & HAVS Prevention
HSE statistics show 215 new cases of Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS) in 2023—proving compliance alone isn’t enough. SIXIS Technology’s HAVSPRO system provides precise, tool-specific data, helping businesses achieve ALARP or better. With detailed insights, managers can identify risks, create meaningful assessments, and ensure compliance while protecting employees.
HAVSPRO analytics provide accurate data for informed decisions
Take Control of Vibration Risks with HAVSPRO
HAVSPRO by SIXIS Technology is a simple yet sophisticated on-tool vibration monitoring system with an intuitive reporting platform. It provides real-time, accurate data to help businesses manage HAVS risks, identify vibration sources, and take targeted action. By comparing tools, tasks, and operators, HAVSPRO ensures compliance, enhances safety, and supports the mission to #MakeHAVSHistory.
How to Protect your Workers from HAVS
Why Periodic Risk Assessments Aren’t Enough
With a new Hand-Arm Vibration case reported every working day, relying on periodic risk assessments and estimates isn’t enough. Protecting your workforce requires real-time, accurate data on actual risks. Our modern solution provides insights into tool condition, usage, and workplace behavior, enabling better controls, improved safety, and a healthier bottom line—going beyond compliance to real protection.
The Importance of Risk Assessments
Effective risk assessments for vibration are essential to protect employees and ensure compliance with regulations. HAVSPRO provides precise data to identify risks, plan controls, and create accurate assessments that safeguard your business and workforce.
Continual HAVS Monitoring – Yes or NO?
Continual vibration measuring and monitoring, yes or NO?
What is Whole Body Vibration (WBV) and what causes it?
When it comes to measuring and monitoring levels of Hand-Arm (HAV) and Whole Body (WBV) Vibration exposure, many businesses still rely on traditional methods such as using manufacturers’ data and adding the K factor, assuming data accuracy at the time of measurement, and then, in both cases, asking the operators how long they used the tool for, then calculating using the HSE ready reckoner.
HAVSPRO: An Advanced Alternative to Traditional HAV and WBV Calculators
When it comes to measuring and monitoring levels of Hand-Arm (HAV) and Whole Body (WBV) Vibration exposure, many businesses still rely on traditional methods such as using manufacturers’ data and adding the K factor, assuming data accuracy at the time of measurement, and then, in both cases, asking the operators how long they used the tool for, then calculating using the HSE ready reckoner.
Case Studies
Don’t just take our word for it when it comes to HAVSPRO and how it is helping organisations across the UK manage the risk of vibration exposure – read our customer case studies and hear what benefits they have found in the system.
Download Our Brochure
If you’d like to learn more about HAVS and WBV, and discover how HAVSPRO works, download our brochure.
HAVSPRO supports vibration exposure monitoring by capturing vibration data, calculating exposure and providing real-time alerts for both HAV and WBV.
HAVSPRO then collates this data and creates customisable reports to support risk assessment and exposure management, helping you identify changes and trends in vibration exposure.
Find out more in our brochure – simply complete the form!
HAVSPRO supports vibration exposure monitoring, giving you greater visibility of exposure data to help support risk assessment and exposure management across your business.
Up-To-Date HAVS Information
Some of the biggest HAVS news stories arise from HSE enforcement action and prosecutions relating to failures to manage the risks associated with vibration exposure under the Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005.
The Regulations require employers to assess the risks associated with vibration exposure and take appropriate action to control those risks. Employers must also provide employees with information, instruction and training about vibration-related health risks and the measures being taken to manage them. Suitable health surveillance is also required where employees are identified as being at risk from vibration exposure.
The HSE can take enforcement action, this can include prosecution for companies that do not operate within these regulations. If convicted, companies will be liable for fines, legal costs and compensation claims.
Find out more about the costs of not adhering to these regulations in our HAVS news story: The true cost of HAVS mismanagement