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The Handling Timber Waste Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Slips
- trips and falls
- Manual handling injuries
- 2. Site Set Up
- Incorrect manual handling
- contact with sharp objects
- 3. Sorting Timber Waste
- Splinters
- heavy lifting injuries
- cuts from nails
- 4. Waste Packaging
- Splinters
- incorrect manual handling
- Dust inhalation
- 5. Lifting and Transporting Packages
- Lifting injuries
- trip hazards
- 6. Loading Waste onto Vehicle
- Falling from height
- heavy lifting injuries
- 7. Unloading Waste from Vehicle
- Slips
- trips and falls
- manual handling injuries
- 8. Disposal of Timber Waste
- Contact with sharp objects
- heavy lifting injuries
- 9. Equipment Maintenance
- Contact with moving parts
- incorrect use of equipment
- 10. Use of Personal Protective Equipment
- Incorrect fit
- exposure to hazardous substances
- 11. Hazardous Material Spills
- Slips
- trips and falls
- Exposure to hazardous materials
- 12. Emergency Procedures
- Injury during evacuation
- inadequate first aid provision
- 13. Clean Up
- Slips
- trips and falls
- exposure to waste residues
- 14. Debriefing and reporting
- Manual handling injuries
- lack of safety information
- 15. Health and Safety training
- Exposure to hazardous materials
- untrained personnel
- 16. Risk assessment and review
- Inadequate risk assessment
- hazardous conditions overlooked
- 17. Site demobilisation
- Struck by moving vehicles
- slips
- trips
- and falls
- 18. Documentation and Reporting
- Paper Cuts
- Strain on eyes from excessive light exposure
- incorrect reporting of hazards
- 19. Safety Audits and Review
- Incorrect safety audit results
- overlooking of hazards
- 20. Project Closure
- Incomplete documentation
- manual handling injuries