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The Masonry Saw Cutting Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Trip hazards
- manual handling risks
- 2. Equipment check
- Electric shock
- equipment failure
- 3. Cutting setup
- Exposure to noise
- dust inhalation
- 4. Operating saw
- Severing injury
- kickback injury from saw
- 5. Material handling
- Risks from dropped materials
- manual handling injuries
- 6. Post-cutting
- Burns from hot materials
- eye injuries from debris
- 7. Clean up and maintenance
- Slip and trip hazards
- chemical exposure from cleaning solutions
- 8. Transport
- Manual handling injuries during transport
- risks of vehicle collision
- 9. Storage
- Injury from improper storage
- theft hazard
- 10. Saw blade replacement
- Cutting hazard
- Pinching hands while changing blades
- 11. Regular machinery inspection
- Risk of shock
- Risk of unnoticed damage triggering harm
- 12. Waste disposal
- Exposure to hazardous substances
- injuries due to scattered objects
- 13. Accessing high areas
- Falls from height
- struck by falling objects
- 14. Training operators
- Improper use leading to injuries
- 15. Emergency procedures training
- Lack of quick response to accidents
- 16. Safety gear inventory
- Inadequate protection due to missing safety gear
- 17. Routine work area inspections
- Long-term exposure to accumulated hazards
- 18. Documentation and reporting
- Non-identification of persistent risks
- 19. Decommissioning of the saw
- Risk of injury due to improper decommissioning
- 20. Final clean up
- Slips
- trips and falls
- hazardous waste exposure