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The Quarry Blasting. Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Unauthorised personnel access
- equipment failure
- 2. Drilling
- Equipment malfunction
- high noise and dust levels
- manual handling injuries
- 3. Charge design and layout
- Incorrect or faulty charges
- unstable materials
- 4. Loading explosives
- Explosion risk
- mishandling of explosives
- chemical exposure
- 5. Stemming
- Premature blast
- falling objects
- dust inhalation
- 6. Tie-in and testing
- Faulty fuses
- premature detonation
- electric shock
- 7. Safety checks
- Miscommunication errors
- overlooking faults or hazards
- 8. Firing the shot
- Detonation failure
- flyrock
- vibration effects
- overpressure
- 9. Fume management
- Toxins
- suffocation
- fire and explosion accidents
- 10. Mucking out
- Falling rocks
- vehicle collision
- noise level hazards
- 11. Scaling
- Fall from height
- unstable ground
- rockfall
- equipment failure
- 12. Secondary blasting
- Premature detonation
- misfires
- high noise levels
- 13. Crushing and screening
- Caught in between machinery
- vibrations
- dust and noise exposure
- 14. Maintenance operations
- Accidents due to lack of training
- injury due to inappropriate tools
- 15. Reporting and Review
- Inaccurate data
- delayed communication
- overlooked hazard assessment