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 Job Safety Analysis
Objectives
At the end of the session, the participants will be able to:

1. Learn to establish safe work procedures.

2. Improve communication between workers
and management.
3. Enhance job safety knowledge.

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What is a Job Hazard
Analysis?
An effective method of reviewing the
individual steps in performing a job and
identifying both unsafe acts and unsafe
conditions in order to develop solutions to
eliminate or control the hazard.

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Benefits
Identify previously undetected hazards.
Increase the job knowledge.
Raise safety and health awareness.
Improve communication between workers
and supervisors.
Establish safe work procedures.
Tool for accident investigation.

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Four Basic Steps
Select the job
Break the job into sequence of steps
Identify potential hazards
Develop solutions

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1. Selecting
Jobs with most accidents
the Job
Jobs where severe accidents can happen
New jobs that are being created
Jobs being changed
Jobs that are already analyzed but are still causing
accident.

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2. Break into basic steps
Discuss with the employee the sequence of job steps
Observe the job if the steps are accurate.
List each step in the order of occurrence
Not too general ( miss steps and hazards)
Not too detailed (many steps)
Jobs can be described in less than ten steps.
Discuss with the employee any discrepancy of the during
observation
Iron out differences to come-up with the final sequence
of job steps

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Who Conducts the
Observation?
The immediate supervisor
The safety officer
Member of the joint occupational health and safety
committee
Other employees who perform the same job

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Who will be observed?
The worker should be experienced and capable in all
parts of the job.

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Observation of the Job
Watch the worker do the job.
Full cooperation and participation
Clearly explain the reason for the exercise.
The job, not the individual, is being studied
Not a time and motion study in disguise
Not an attempt to uncover individual unsafe acts.

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Observation of the Job
Only regular tools and equipment should be
used.
The only difference from normal operations is the
fact that the worker is being observed.
Breakdown of steps are discussed by all the
participants (including the worker)

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3. Identify potential hazards
TYPICAL QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

PHYSICAL ACTIONS MATERIALS EQUIPMENT CONDITIONS

Excessive force required? Toxic Unguarded moving Adequate lighting?

parts?

Awkward or unstable position? Flammable or Controls positioned Temperature

combustible? appropriately? extremes?

Repititive motion? Heavy? Interlocks required? Excessive Noise

Simultaneous actions Difficult to Emergency stop Ventilation required?

required? move? switches accessible?

Lifting, pushing or Does equipment store

pulling involved? energy?

Specific sequence of
action necessary?

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3. Identify potential hazards
Based on observations of the job.
Knowledge of accident and injury causes.
Personal experience,
List the things that could go wrong at each step.

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Sample questions to identify
hazards
Can any body part get caught in or between objects?
Do tools, machines, or equipment present any hazards?
Can the worker make harmful contact with objects?
Can the worker slip, trip, or fall?
Can the worker suffer strain from lifting, pushing, or pulling?
Is the worker exposed to extreme heat or cold?
Is excessive noise or vibration a problem?

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Sample questions to identify
hazards
Is there a danger from falling objects?
Is lighting a problem?
Can weather conditions affect safety?
Is harmful radiation a possibility?
Can contact be made with hot, toxic, or caustic
substances?
Are there dusts, fumes, mists, or vapours in the air?

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4. Develop Solutions
Eliminate the hazard
Choose a different process
Modify an existing process
Substitute with less hazardous substance
Improve environment (ventilation)
Modify or change equipment or tools

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4. Develop Solutions
Contain the hazard
Hazard cannot be eliminated
Prevent contact
enclosures
machine guards
worker booths or similar devices.

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4. Develop Solutions
Revise work procedures
Consideration might be given to modifying
steps which are hazardous,
Change the sequence of steps
Adding additional steps (such as locking out
energy sources).

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4. Develop Solutions
Reduce the exposure
Least effective measure
No other solutions are possible
Reduce the number of times the hazard is
encountered.
Use of appropriate personal protective
equipment
Reduce the severity of an accident

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 JOB OR OPERATION TITLE: DEPARTMENT/ DIVISION: JOB LOCATION: DATE PERFORMED:
JOB HAZARD
ANALYSIS PERFORMED BY: VERIFIED BY: TITLE OF EMPLOYEE DOING JOB:

NEW PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT REQUIRED AND/OR RECOMMENDED:

REVISED
SEQUENCE OF BASIC JOB STEPS EXISTING AND POTENTIAL HAZARDS RECOMMENDED CORRECTIVE MEASURES

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Information Dissemination
The result must be communicated to all workers.

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Changing a flat tire.
As you leave for work today, you discover that
the car has a flat tire. The car is parked on
level ground and the parking brake is already
set. The bumper jack and spare tire are both
in good condition and stored in the trunk of the
car.

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Key Steps NOT ENOUGH
Changing a Flat Tire
Park car
take off flat tire
put on spare tire
drive away

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Key Job Steps JUST RIGHT
Changing a Flat tire
Park car, set brake tighten lug nuts
remove jack & tire from store tire & jack
trunk
loosen log nuts
jack up car
remove tire
set new tire
jack down car

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Job Hazard Analysis is one of the most effective tools available to help
supervisors protect the health and safety of their employees
To perform an accurate and completed JHA, you need to:
Select the job to be analyzed; and
Assemble a team of knowledgeable and experienced personnel to conduct
the JHA
Then, the team as a whole needs to:
Observe the job as it is performed to break it down into basic steps
Analyze each step to determine existing and potential hazards
associated with each step
Develop recommendations for eliminating or controlling the hazards
associated with each step

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