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The Metal Bending Machine Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Slips
- trips or falls from debris
- Electrical hazards
- 2. Machine inspection
- Mechanical malfunction
- Electrical shocks
- 3. Loading raw materials
- Manual lifting injuries
- Cuts from handling material
- 4. Setting up machinery
- Improper setup causing equipment failure
- Crushing hazards
- 5. Running the bending operation
- Equipment malfunction leading to exposure to moving parts
- Noise pollution
- 6. Material removal
- Hot surface burns
- Manual lifting injuries
- 7. Machine maintenance
- Exposure to hazardous chemicals
- Electrical shock
- 8. Clean-up procedure
- Slips
- trips and falls from debris
- Exposure to chemical residuals
- 9. Dealing with waste material
- Inadequate handling of scrap metals
- Exposure to harmful chemical waste
- 10. Training workers
- Incorrect operation causing injury
- Insufficient knowledge about emergency procedures
- 11. Disaster management drills
- Panic during emergency
- Improper emergency drill execution
- 12. Regular machine updating
- Improper decommissioning of old equipment
- Installing new machinery without appropriate instructions
- 13. Staff break times
- Unsupervised machinery operation
- Breaches in lockout/tagout procedures
- 14. Conducting safety audits
- Lack of accountability
- Ignore minor issues may result in higher risks
- 15. Documentation control
- Failure to adequately record safety procedures and issues
- Inadequate or improper communication of changes in safety procedures