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The Handle Cold Applied Bitumen Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Trip hazards
- unsecured equipment and materials
- 2. Job briefing
- Insufficient knowledge about job requirements
- inadequate communication
- 3. Setting up work area
- Moving heavy equipment
- exposure to dust and noise
- 4. Pre-application checks
- Machine malfunction
- unnoticed oil or grease leaks
- 5. Material handling
- Manual lifting of heavy items
- accidental drop of items
- 6. Bitumen application
- Bitumen aerosols
- high bitumen temperature
- skin exposure
- 7. Ensuring safety measures
- Failure of protective equipment
- incorrect disposal procedures
- 8. Cleaning up
- Hazards from sharp tools
- spillage of bitumen
- careless handling of waste
- 9. Inspecting work
- Missing damage during inspection
- self-exposure to wet bitumen
- 10. Reporting issues
- Late reporting
- uncomplete information
- 11. Shutting down procedure
- Incorrect machine shutdown
- confusing instructions
- 12. Demobilising equipment
- Injuring while moving equipment
- equipment falling over
- 13. De-briefing
- Inadequate de-briefing
- miscommunication on task completion
- 14. End-of-day checks
- Mishandling of dangerous materials
- equipment left turned on unintentionally
- 15. Tool accountability
- Misplace tools
- unreturned equipment
- 16. Offsite transportation
- Unsafe driving practices
- unsecured bitumen materials during transport
- 17. Reviewing work practices
- Risks overlooked
- employees not implementing safety protocols correctly
- 18. Revising job safety analysis
- Mistakes in the JSA
- overlooking certain preventative measures
- 19. Records management
- Misfiled documents
- a loss of paperwork
- incorrect recordings
- 20. Archiving and evaluating
- Failure to archive correctly
- failure to evaluate accurately or appropriately