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The Operating Bailers Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Slips
- trips and falls
- Manual handling injuries
- 2. Inspection
- Caught in moving machines
- Electrical hazard
- 3. Operating Bailers
- Entanglement
- Unexpected start-up
- 4. Maintenance
- Chemical exposure
- Falling objects
- 5. Loading materials
- Manual handling injuries
- Struck by moving object
- 6. Retrieval of Baled Materials
- Crushing between bailer and another object
- Struck by moving parts
- 7. Machine Shutdown
- Unexpected start-up
- Caught in moving parts
- 8. Storage of Baled Material
- Stacking hazard
- Slips
- trips and falls
- 9. Unloading Baled Material
- Overexertion
- Manual handling injuries
- 10. Bale Tying
- Risk of cuts from sharp ends
- entanglement
- 11. Clearing Jams
- Entanglement
- struck by moving parts
- 12. Daily maintenance checks
- Exposure to harmful substances
- Falling objects
- 13. End of Day Procedures
- walking/working surface violation
- Incorrect shutdown procedures
- 14. Emergency shut down procedures
- Incorrect operation
- Panic related injury
- 15. Handover protocol
- Communication Errors
- Procedure non-compliance
- 16. Operator Training
- Unfamiliarity with procedure
- Inadequate training results
- 17. Cleaning Procedures
- hazardous substances
- slips
- trips and falls
- 18. Waste Management
- Inadvertent exposure to hazardous materials
- Fumes and particulates contamination
- 19. Decommissioning of bailer
- Improper lockout/tagout
- Falls from height
- 20. Periodic Machine Checks
- Work at height
- Exposure to harmful substances