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The Elevating Work Platform EWP Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Faulty equipment
- Inadequate training
- 2. Ground condition check
- Unstable terrain
- Buried utilities
- 3. Pre-start inspection
- Neglected maintenance
- Unidentified issues from previous use
- 4. Setting up EWP
- Incorrect setup
- Overhead wires
- Improper ground levelling
- Public access
- 5. Operating the EWP
- Falling objects
- Collision with structures/vehicles
- 6. Manoeuvring EWP
- Moving parts injury
- Strain injury
- 7. Servicing and maintenance of EWP
- Electric shock
- Burns
- Cuts
- Eye injuries
- 8. Elevated work
- Falls from height
- Incorrect use of fall arrest system
- 9. Load and unload EWP
- Manual handling injury
- Equipment failure
- 10. Transporting EWP
- Collision with pedestrians or vehicles
- Inappropriate speed
- 11. Emergency procedures
- Inadequate knowledge of evacuation plan
- Panic
- 12. Housekeeping of EWP
- Tripping over
- Slips and falls
- 13. Storage
- Inadequate storage security
- Improper stacking that may induce falling
- 14. Decommissioning of EWP
- Flammable materials
- improper disposal
- Insufficient cleaning
- 15. Post-work final inspection
- Missed damages
- Improper shutdown
- 16. Incident reporting
- failure in timely and accurate reporting
- 17. End of Life Disposal
- Potential environment harm
- Failure to comply with disposal regulations
- 18. Review of Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS)
- Incomplete documents
- Lack of safety procedures outlined
- 19. Worksite shutdown
- Hazards left unattended
- Insufficient lockout/tagout
- Failure to signal end of work day
- 20. Record Keeping
- Loss of important information
- Miscommunication