PRODUCT REVIEW


Knipex Tethered Tools: Safety at height


TETHERING tools when working at height is a good idea. A couple of weeks ago I lost my favourite yellow level when it made an unscheduled three-metre fall from the scaffolding. Fortunately, there was no-one underneath, but the concrete path ensured that my level will only be good for measuring standard EU bendy bananas from now on.


Tool tethers have been around for a while but I haven’t seen them widely used around the trades that work on smaller worksites. I guess that workers on large and tall projects would have the Health and Safety person on their case very quickly if they didn’t tether their tools as a matter of course; a pair of pliers falling from 40m up could cause a very nasty injury, after all.


Knipex tethers the tools


Knipex is most well-known as the German manufacturer of high-quality pliers, pipe wrenches, cutters and snips. Many of these are VDE rated and are much


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By PETER BRETT


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