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The Joining Wooden Parts Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Trip hazards
- Electrical hazards
- 2. Selecting Materials
- Manual handling injuries
- Cuts/abrasions from materials
- 3. Cutting Wood
- Kickback from saw
- Noise
- dust inhalation
- 4. Sanding Parts
- Dust inhalation
- Noise
- Eye injury from debris
- 5. Drilling Holes
- Eye injury from debris
- Hand crush injuries
- 6. Assembling Parts
- Pinching fingers
- Muscle strain
- 7. Gluing/Jointing
- Chemical hazards (glue fumes)
- Skin contact with glue
- 8. Clamping
- Crush injury
- Repetitive motion strain
- 9. Inspecting Work
- Unprotected sharp edges
- Splinters
- 10. Cleaning Up
- Trip Hazard
- Chemical contact (cleaning solvents)
- 11. Applying Finish
- Chemical hazards (finish fumes)
- Skin contact with finish
- 12. Drying/Curing
- Fires from rags soaked in finish
- Chemical hazard (fume inhalation)
- 13. Final Inspection
- Splinters
- Sharp edges
- 14. Packaging & Dispatch
- Manual handling injuries
- Trips and falls
- 15. Safety Equipment Check
- Incorrectly fitted PPE
- Defective PPE
- 16. Tool maintenance
- Injury from improper tool use
- Electrocution (improperly grounded tools)
- 17. Stocktake
- Trips and falls
- Struck by moving objects
- 18. Waste Disposal
- Exposure to harmful substances
- Manual handling injuries
- 19. Emergency Drills
- Panic/injury during drill
- Non-compliance with procedure
- 20. Periodical Training
- Non-compliance with training
- Incorrect technique leading to injury