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The Operating Underbody Wheel Lifts Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Incorrect lifting point identified
- Failure of equipment component
- 2. Positioning the vehicle
- Collision with other vehicles or objects
- Slipping or falling
- 3. Checking equipment
- Equipment malfunction
- Electrical hazard
- 4. Attaching wheel lift
- Load slips or falls
- Worker pinned between vehicle and lift
- 5. Lifting the vehicle
- Vehicle falls
- Sudden release of energy (e.g.
- spring tension)
- 6. Securing the vehicle
- Vehicle not properly secured to lift
- Workers caught between moving parts
- 7. Lowering the vehicle
- Uncontrolled descent of vehicle
- Failure of equipment
- 8. Detaching wheel lift
- Workers struck by equipment
- Loss of balance and falls
- 9. Moving the lifted vehicle
- Personnel injury
- Damage to vehicles or property
- 10. Wheel removal and replacement
- Hand injuries
- Slips
- trips and falls
- 11. Final checks & cleaning
- Incorrect realignment
- Slips and falls due to untidy work area
- 12. Releasing the brakes
- Injury from ineffective brake system
- Unintended movement of vehicle
- 13. Test drive
- Vehicle instability
- Brake failure
- 14. Review of work & documentation
- Inadequate review
- improper documentation
- 15. Standby for next task
- Worker fatigue
- Dehydration