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Key Features:
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The Often Repeated Movements Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Musculoskeletal strain
- Exposure to hazardous substances
- 2. Set Up Work Area
- Musculoskeletal injuries
- Struck by moving objects
- 3. Operation Start
- Repetitive strain injury
- Noise exposure
- 4. Load Materials
- Manual handling injuries
- Crush injuries
- 5. Machine Operation
- Machinery entanglement
- Electric shock
- 6. Ongoing Oversight
- Fall from heights
- Slips and trips
- 7. Adjustments/Modifications
- Cut/puncture wounds
- Noise-induced hearing loss
- 8. Unload Materials
- Manual handling injuries
- Crushing injuries
- 9. Operation Stop
- Equipment malfunction
- Fire hazards
- 10. Clean Up
- Exposure to hazardous substances
- Slips and trips
- 11. Breakdown of Equipment
- Electric shock
- Moving parts entrapment
- 12. Inspection
- Body stressing
- Contact with sharp objects
- 13. Maintenance
- Body injury from tools
- Burns from hot surfaces
- 14. Error Recovery
- Stress from rushing
- Fires from mistakes
- 15. Handover
- Communicable diseases from shared equipment
- Mental stress from miscommunication
- 16. Emergency Procedures
- Injury from improper procedure
- Mental stress from incident management
- 17. Shut Down/Disassembly
- Physical strain and overexertion
- Hazardous energy release
- 18. End of Shift Clean Up
- Slips and trips due to wet surfaces
- Exposure to hazardous cleaning chemicals
- 19. Equipment Storage
- Injuries from heavy lifting
- Tripping on improperly stored equipment
- 20. Final Inspection
- Eye strain from long term focus
- Missed hazards from rushing