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The Placing Overburden Stockpiles Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Slips
- trips and falls
- Inadequate safety wear
- 2. Equipment Setup
- Machinery malfunction
- electrical hazards
- 3. Site Assessment
- Exposure to harmful substances
- airborne dust
- 4. Marking Out the Area
- Collisions with machinery
- falling objects
- 5. Excavating & Moving Overburden
- Accidental pit collapse
- heavy equipment rollover
- 6. Stockpiling Overburden
- Unstable stockpile
- contact with hazardous substances
- 7. Stabilising & Sealing Overburden
- Landslides
- falls from height
- 8. Inspection & Maintenance of Stockpile
- Slips
- falls from height
- contact with hazardous substances
- 9. Traffic Management
- Vehicle accidents
- collisions between machinery and workers
- 10. Weather Monitoring
- Debris flow due to rainfall
- hail storms
- 11. Emergency Response Training
- Inadequate knowledge
- slow response time
- 12. Waste Management
- Exposure to harmful substances
- improper waste disposal
- 13. Decommissioning & Rehabilitation
- Soil erosion
- exposure to hazardous substances
- 14. Documentation & Review
- Non-compliance to regulations
- inadequate information
- 15. Worker Training Programmes
- Inconsistencies in training
- lack of awareness