Lanyard attachment assembly

A method of tethering a hand tool comprising:

• providing a tubular sleeve with an inside surface and an outside surface, the inside surface defining a passageway through the tubular sleeve, the tubular sleeve being changeable between a larger, expanded state and a smaller, relaxed state, wherein when installed on a hand tool an elasticity of the tubular sleeve in the smaller, relaxed state is adapted to provide a snug fit with the hand tool;
• providing a strap made of a flexible material and having a body portion, a first end portion and a second end portion, the first end portion defining a first closed loop with an opening therethrough and the second end portion with a second closed loop adapted to connect to an end of a lanyard;
• providing a hand tool to be tethered;
• aligning the body portion of the strap along a portion of the hand tool to be tethered;
• inserting the hand tool to be tethered and aligned body portion of the strap into the tubular sleeve in the larger, expanded state;
• positioning the portion of the hand tool and the body portion of the strap in the passageway through the tubular sleeve;
• causing the tubular sleeve to change to the smaller, relaxed state, thereby providing the snug fit with the portion of the hand tool;
• and
• coupling the second closed loop of the second end portion with the first closed loop of the first end portion, thereby defining a strap closed loop linked to the tubular sleeve.