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The Golf Cart Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Uneven terrain
- golf cart malfunction
- 2. Cart inspection
- Faulty brakes
- flat tyre
- 3. Load equipment
- Manual handling injuries
- equipment damage
- 4. Boarding and seating
- Slips
- trips and falls
- improper posture
- 5. Start-up
- Noise exposure
- engine overheating
- 6. Driving
- Collisions with other carts
- pedestrians
- or obstacles; loss of control
- 7. Braking
- Sudden stops causing injury or equipment damage
- 8. Descending slopes
- Loss of control
- rolled-over cart
- 9. Navigating through sand bunkers
- Sand inhalation or eye contact
- cart damage
- 10. Crossing water hazards
- Cart submersion
- slips
- and falls
- 11. Parking
- Improper parking may cause vehicle movement
- obstruction of roadways or paths
- 12. Unloading equipment
- Manual handling injuries
- equipment damage
- 13. Shutting down
- Unsafe storage
- leakage from battery or fuel tank
- 14. Equipment cleaning
- Slips
- trips
- and falls; chemical exposure
- 15. Cart maintenance & repair
- Inappropriate use of tools
- machinery accidents
- 16. Charging electric carts
- Electrical hazards
- battery acid spills
- 17. Fueling gasoline carts
- Fuel spills
- fire hazards
- 18. Cart storage
- Blocked emergency exits
- poor housekeeping
- 19. Incident reporting
- Incomplete or inaccurate recordkeeping
- 20. Training & supervision
- Incompetence
- untrained staff causing accidents