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The Managing Timber Yard Traffic Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Inadequate personal protective equipment
- Slips
- trips and falls
- 2. Load handling
- Load falling from height
- Collision with vehicles or pedestrians
- 3. Vehicle movement in yard
- Collision with other vehicles
- Pedestrian hit by moving vehicle
- 5. Stack timber
- Incorrect manual handling leading to musculoskeletal injury
- Falling loads
- 6. Unload delivery
- Risk of falls from height
- Crush hazards
- 7. Manual material handling
- Manual handling injuries
- Strains and sprains
- 8. Use tools and machines
- Tools malfunctions
- Chance of being cut or injured by the machine
- 9. Overhead crane operations
- Overload causing crane failure
- Falling materials
- 10. Yard maintenance
- Slips
- trips and falls due to uneven ground or water slicks
- Exposure to harmful substances during maintenance
- 11. Yard security
- Unauthorized entry
- Thefts
- 12. Fire management
- Fire risks in timber yard
- Smoke inhalation
- 13. Workplace inspections
- Inspection related injuries
- Missed / Unseen hazards
- 14. Emergency response protocol
- Emergency related chaos / panic
- Inadequacy of emergency response training
- 15. Waste disposal
- Exposure to hazardous materials
- Incorrect waste disposal technique
- 16. Close down procedures
- Improper locking and securing facilities
- Left over hazardous materials / waste
- 17. Yards - Night shift operations
- Inadequate lighting causing trip hazards
- Workers fatigue
- 18. Manual stack count
- Incorrect manual handling
- Strains and sprains from repetitive movements
- 19. Operation of Vehicles
- Accidents from vehicles malfunctions
- Pedestrians unaware of the moving vehicle
- 20. Use of forklift
- Operating without adequate training
- Load falling from fork lift