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The Handling Of Toxic Adhesive Materials Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Exposure to toxic fumes
- contact with skin or eyes
- 2. Equipment check
- Faulty equipment causing unexpected spills or accidents
- 3. Personal Protective Equipments (PPE) Utilisation
- Failure to correctly use PPE
- failure to wear necessary PPE
- 4. Material transportation
- Feasible spill
- heavy lifting hazards
- 5. Handling and storage
- Risks of mixing incompatible materials
- possible damage to containers leading to leakage
- 6. Application process
- Exposure to toxic substances
- unsafe manual handling procedure
- 7. Mixing Procedure
- Risk of creating harmful byproducts due to incorrect mixture
- exposure to toxic fumes
- 8. Management of Wastes
- Incorrect disposal causing pollution
- accidental ingestion or skin contact
- 9. Clean up process
- Ingestion or inhalation of residual hazardous material
- improper waste disposal
- 10. Emergency Procedures
- Lack of knowledge on emergency procedures
- panic in emergency situations
- 11. Training Requirement
- Lack of competent skills
- wrong application techniques
- 12. Plant & Equipment
- Machinery caught on clothes
- minor cuts while operating machinery
- 13. Safety Inspection
- Risk of discovering latent hazards
- anxiety caused by scrutinising environment
- 14. First Aid Supplies
- Insufficient supplies
- unavailability of specific treatment measures for certain injuries
- 15. Public Safety
- Mistaken ingestion of materials by public
- secondary exposure to hazardous materials
- 16. Review of Work Procedure
- Failure to update procedure in light of new hazards
- 17. Equipment Maintenance
- Risks associated with improper maintenance
- harm from falling equipment
- 18. Regular Adhesive Checks
- Overlooked declining quality of adhesives
- hazard due to the use of expired products
- 19. Transportation of Mixed Adhesives
- Spillage causing contamination
- inhalation risks
- 20. Final Clean-Up and Secure Storage
- Ingestion or inhalation of residual adhesive material
- tripping over not properly stored equipment