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Key Features:
• Uniform Structure: Each template includes clearly defined sections for job steps, potential hazards, risk matrices, control measures, and emergency procedures.
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• Regulatory Compliance: Built to align with Australia’s WHS legislation and Codes of Practice, these templates include guidance notes and reference links to help you stay compliant.
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The Geotechnical Investigation Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Equipment malfunction
- Incorrect use of PPE
- 2. Site entry
- Slips
- trips and falls
- Interactions with heavy machinery
- 3. Setting up equipment
- Crushing or entanglement
- Electrical faults
- 4. Borehole drilling
- Falling objects
- Noise exposure
- 5. Sample collection
- Hand/arm vibration syndrome
- Cuts and abrasions
- 6. Data analysis
- Mental fatigue
- Poor ergonomics in workstations
- 7. Equipment maintenance
- Exposure to harmful substances
- Electrocution
- 8. Waste disposal
- Exposure to hazardous substances
- Cuts from sharp objects
- 9. Demobilisation
- Heavy lifting
- Traffic incidences
- 10. Reporting
- Eye strain
- Repetitive stress injuries
- 11. Review of findings
- Stress
- Incorrect interpretation of data
- 12. Filing of reports
- Poor ergonomic setup
- Loss of data
- 13. Briefing team on results
- Miscommunication
- Inadequate understanding of findings
- 14. Revising procedures based on findings
- Changes not properly documented
- Resistance to change
- 15. Updating risk assessments based on new procedures
- Omitting important updates
- Not reviewing risk assessment regularly
- 16. Transportation back to base
- Road accidents
- Fatigue
- 17. Storing equipment
- Heavy lifting
- Fires from electrical faults
- 18. Cleaning and disposal
- Exposure to harmful substances
- Cuts from sharp objects
- 19. Paperwork
- Paper cuts
- Loss of important documents
- 20. Debriefing
- Stress
- Miscommunication