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The Dryclean Service Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Slips
- trips and falls from cluttered workspace
- Exposure to chemicals
- 2. Inspection of Garments
- Exposure to hazardous substances
- Needle stick injuries
- 3. Sorting and Tagging
- Manual handling injuries
- Slips
- trips and falls
- 4. Pre-Treatment
- Chemical burns
- Inhalation of chemical fumes
- 5. Cleaning Process
- Exposure to noise
- contact with hot surfaces
- 6. Post-Cleaning Inspection
- Mistakenly discarding items left in pockets
- Eye strain from prolonged focus on task
- 7. Finishing
- Burns from steam press
- Musculoskeletal injuries from repetitive movement
- 8. Quality Check
- Eye strain from detailed inspection
- Repetitive strain injury
- 9. Packaging
- Cuts or abrasions from packaging materials
- Manual handling injuries
- 10. Staff Training
- Inadequate knowledge leading to mistreatment of garments
- Incomplete understanding of equipment operation
- 11. Machinery Maintenance
- Contact with moving parts
- Electric shock
- 12. Waste Disposal
- Contact with sharp objects
- Exposure to hazardous waste
- 13. Emergency Procedures
- Panic or confusion during emergency
- Unfamiliarity with safety equipment/location
- 14. End of Day Shutdown
- Failure to disengage machinery properly
- Neglected minor repairs leading to major faults
- 15. Types of Dry cleaning Processed
- Exposure to different chemicals
- Mishandling due to unfamiliarity with garments
- 16. Ventilation System Checking
- Dust inhalation
- Working at height
- 17. Customer Service
- Work stress
- Verbal abuse from customers
- 18. Periodic garment Quality Review
- Eye strain from detailed inspection
- Musculoskeletal injuries from repetitive movement
- 19. Operating dry-cleaning machine
- Caught in machinery
- Noise exposure
- Heat exposure
- 20. Handling customer complaints
- Workplace violence
- Work stress