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The Installation Of Retractable Awnings Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Trip hazards
- electrical hazards
- manual handling injuries
- 2. Site Assessment
- Incorrect installation location
- obstruction hazards
- 3. Unloading Material
- Manual handling injuries
- falling objects
- 4. Marking Installation Location
- Fall from height
- struck by moving object
- 5. Drilling and Fixing Brackets
- Noise
- eye injury
- dust inhalation
- 6. Fixing Awning to Brackets
- Manual handling injuries
- fall from height
- 7. Adjusting Awning Slope
- Struck by moving object
- finger entrapment
- 8. Securing Awning Arms
- Finger entrapment
- fall from height
- 9. Testing Retractable Function
- Fall from height
- recoil injuries
- 10. Checking Operation of the Awning
- Struck by moving object
- fall from height
- 11. Clean-up
- Trip hazards
- cutting sharp waste materials
- 12. Awnings Maintenance
- Manual handling injuries
- working at height risks
- 13. Client Education
- Miscommunication or misunderstanding
- client misuse of retractable awnings
- 14. End of Day Procedure
- Manual handling injuries
- fatigue-related errors
- 15. Review SWMS
- Incomplete or outdated information
- Change in operational environment/conditions