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Key Features:
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The Paver Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Tripping hazards
- improper storage of materials
- 2. Selecting materials
- Manual handling injuries
- exposure to hazardous substances
- 3. Transporting materials
- Slips
- trips and falls
- vehicle related accidents
- 4. Mark out the area
- Incorrect measurements leading to mistakes
- tripping over markers
- 5. Excavate the area
- Collapse of excavation
- contact with underground services
- 6. Setting bed layer
- Musculoskeletal injuries from repetitive work
- dust inhalation
- 7. Placing pavers
- Strains and sprains
- cuts and abrasions from rough surfaces
- 8. Cutting pavers
- Noise hazard
- Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS)
- 9. Sealing pavers
- Exposure to harmful chemicals
- fire hazard
- 10. Clean up
- Slips
- trips and falls
- use of unsafe equipment
- 11. Waste disposal
- Handling sharp objects
- manual lifting injury
- 12. Inspect completed work
- Trip hazards
- fall from height
- 13. Maintenance
- Electric shock risk
- working at height
- 14. Emergency procedures
- Inadequate knowledge of emergency procedures
- panic-related injuries
- 15. Training & Induction
- Employee unaware of workplace hazards or protocols
- resulting in avoidable risks
- 16. Supervision
- Lack of supervision leading to non-compliance with safe work procedures
- accidents due to negligence or carelessness
- 17. Safety equipment & PPE
- Ineffective or misused PPE
- injury due to lack of safety equipment
- 18. Communication
- Miscommunication leads to incorrect work methods
- errors caused by insufficient communication impact job safety
- 19. First aid
- Lack of first aid training resulting in improper care after an incident
- delayed treatment causes worsening conditions
- 20. Incident reporting
- Underreporting or late reporting obstructs operation management and hazard reassessment
- leading to unresolved risks lurking in the site