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The Handling Bio-Waste Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Potential exposure to bio-waste
- Failure of safety equipment
- 2. Collection of Bio-Waste
- Exposure to airborne pathogens
- Puncture injury from sharp objects
- 3. Packing and Labelling
- Incorrect labelling
- Spillage during packing
- 4. Transportation
- Spillage during transportation
- Injury due to incorrect handling
- 5. Waste treatment
- Inhalation of harmful gases
- fire risk
- 6. Disposal
- Improper disposal
- injuries while unloading
- 7. Decontamination
- Exposure to cleaning chemicals
- rushing the process
- 8. Reporting
- Inaccurate documentation
- skipping steps
- 9. Site clean up
- Exposure to leftover waste
- trips and slips
- 10. Equipment Maintenance
- Injury from improper use of tools
- failure of equipment
- 11. Incident response
- Inadequate first aid
- delayed reporting
- 12. Training and Supervision
- Insufficient training
- lack of supervision
- 13. Work area inspection
- Overlooked hazards
- incomplete inspection
- 14. Compliance review
- Non-compliance with safety regulations
- overlooked safety standards
- 15. Closing and evaluation
- Failure to complete evaluation
- Lack of feedback absorption