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The Lifting Boxes Onto Conveyor Belt Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Incorrect lifting posture
- lack of personal protective equipment
- 2. Assessing load weight
- Risk of muscle strain due to overestimation of capacity
- hurt by sharp edges on boxes
- 3. Arranging for assistance when necessary
- Miscommunications leading to dropped boxes
- crushing injuries during group lift
- 4. Checking conveyor belt's setting
- Injury from moving parts
- electrical shock
- 5. Clearing pathway
- Tripping hazards
- collisions with other workers or objects
- 6. Lifting the box
- Back injury
- slipped disc from improper technique
- 7. Carrying the box to conveyor
- Risks associated with distance and traffic; fatigue
- muscle strains
- trips
- 8. Placing box onto conveyor
- Crushing injuries when conveyor unexpectedly starts
- fingers caught in conveyor
- 9. Controlling conveyor speed settings
- Device failure leading to uncontrolled movement of boxes
- 10. Inspecting box position on conveyor
- Falls from height while checking large/ high stacks of boxes
- 11. Repeating the process
- Fatigue
- repetitive motion injuries; loss of focus; back pain
- 12. Stopping the conveyor belt
- Unplanned stop causing falling boxes
- acute machinery stop causing mechanical issues
- 13. Removing boxes at end point
- Overreaching or overextension
- dropped boxes
- 14. Reporting any workplace incidents
- Failure to notify leads to further similar incidents
- unchecked hazard escalation
- 15. Clean-up and maintenance
- Tripping over cleaning/maintenance tools
- contact with harmful cleaning chemicals